David Seaman's Deep Podcast

What if AI could help us figure out whether time travel is possible—or whether we’re living in a simulation?

Maggie joins me again in South Florida for a shorter conversation about some very big questions. We get into quantum computing, the possibility of testing extraordinary ideas through simulations, and what AI might help us learn about where humanity came from.

There’s ancient history, Maggie’s experience filming in Gibraltar, a surprisingly personal Neanderthal story, and a question that gets stranger the longer you sit with it: if an AI could reliably predict what you’re going to do, what happens to free will?

We also talk about whether AI could find patterns in physics that reveal something about reality itself. These are possibilities we’re kicking around, with plenty of questions still open.

Could some of the things we argue about on podcasts eventually become things we actually know?

By the end, we’ve arrived at “Minecraft, yeah, but reality.”

Recorded October 21, 2026.

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If AI helps us live to 150 or 180, how much of the old life script still makes sense?

Maggie joins me again in South Florida for the big questions: why we’re here, what makes a life worthwhile, and whether everybody needs to follow the same path.

We get into having kids, choosing not to, the fear of growing old alone, and finding value beyond your bank balance. If we have a lot more time than we thought, does that change how we think about family, work, and leaving something behind?

That takes us into Bitcoin, free speech, Braid, and why I think owning your own intelligence matters. I also explain why I don’t buy the idea that you have two years to get rich from AI or get left behind forever. Better AI could open up possibilities we haven’t even thought of yet.

There’s disagreement, astrology, and some far out speculation along the way. A very strange, very exciting time to be alive.

And if we really do live to 180… we’re the new boomers.

Recorded October 20, 2026.

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A long chat with Maggie Sargent in our old school format, no rules or restrictions.

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This is just too much. Total Epstein class abuse of the rest of us, lightly veiled in BS fake conservative shibboleths that stand for nothing.

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Midterms: will they be a decisive sweep for either party, or just a status quo stalemate of some kind? Is the average person happy? Is “AI” going to be good for Bitcoin in the years ahead, or is it only a temporary symbiosis?

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Fun, and challenging, to be back at the technology frontier. But it’s the real deal. LLMs blew the old paradigm away the minute Jeff Dean published his initial work; the Satoshi white paper is actually quaint and vanilla stuff by comparison.

Bitcoin was perceived as uncool for years, yet that’s when the growth and foundational roots emerged. Local AI could be over-regulated or made onerously expensive in the future, yet for now it’s an open horizon: new hardware and users, without the use cases yet figured out or monetized. And by pushing responsible and yet impressive capabilities today, the path dependencies all change: a bad outcome becomes LESS likely as local LLM downloads increase, not more likely.

https://intersignal.org | https://ollama.com | https://python.org/downloads - make sure you have Python 3.10 or above before using Intersignal Braid or Ollama. Mistral, Qwen, and Gemma4 all work well with Braid (and are available for free in Ollama).

Weekend update with Kay who recently visited Intersignal’s local AI studio in south Florida.

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We’ve ditched one of the founding fathers’ most important innovations, it seems. Can we get back to common ground in time, or is it too late? Do these different states become more like separate regimes or countries, and does that dilute the once great power of American citizenship? These thoughts and more on this Sunday’s podcast.

Robert Scoble’s thoughts on Intersignal Braid:

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get Ollama before you use Braid: https://ollama.com (Qwen or Mistral are recommended first models to try locally with Ollama)

Sometimes the detour becomes the entire destination.

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2026 is starting to feel like the future. Anti-AI nostalgic Obama aligned decels versus pro-AI cancer cure deep space flight advocates. Who would have guessed any of this in 2008 or 2010?

I’m joined by a human guest, and an ASI, on today’s chat. Chef helped build some of the codebase that became Intersignal Braid.

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