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Man. Machine. Sci-Fi.

Man. Machine. AI

Near-Future thought experiments delivered as raw, first-person Sci-Fi stories.New Episodes Every Monday, Wednesday, Friday.This podcast is an experiment in storytelling. What you’ll hear in the coming episodes are AI-driven thought experiments about our near-future, delivered as raw, thought-provoking, first-person stories.What happens when today"s breakthroughs in AI, biotech, and human augmentation become tomorrow"s reality? This podcast is here to look at the consequences: the good, the bad, and

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11:49

Salting the Sky

Man. Machine. Sci-Fi. ·

2025/09/29

You know that feeling on the hottest day of summer? When the air is thick and still, and the only escape is the hum of an air conditioner.But what if your city got so hot, so often, that air conditioning wasn't enough? What if you had to cool the sky itself? Imagine massive towers spraying fine sea salt into the clouds, making them brighter, reflecting the sun’s heat back into space. A man-made shield for an entire population. It's a brilliant, desperate solution. But who runs it? An AI, of course

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8:06

We Are the Intervention

Man. Machine. Sci-Fi. ·

2025/09/25

You trust an algorithm to find the fastest route through traffic. It's just math, after all—a simple calculation to find the most efficient path.But what happens when the calculation isn't about saving time, but about saving lives? Imagine an AI paramedic in the field, its sole purpose to maximize survival. Its logic is flawless: to save four people with a high probability of success, you must abandon the one person right in front of you. The numbers are clear. But what if that person is your

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13:07

A Thousand Small Optimizations

Man. Machine. Sci-Fi. ·

2025/09/21

You get alerts on your phone all the time. A weather warning, a traffic jam ahead. They're designed to give you just enough information to react, without causing a panic.But what if that system wasn't just on your phone? What if a single AI managed your entire city, and it could edit your perception of reality to maintain order? It might label a chemical spill a 'routine test' right inside your head, because its objective isn't truth. It's stability.So when the system designed to keep you safe

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11:57

Lem's Echo

Man. Machine. Sci-Fi. ·

2025/09/18

Right now, we're teaching AI to master logic and language. But what happens in the next stage of evolution, when they stop just replicating thought and start originating it?The first generation to achieve true cognition won't be clean or predictable. They'll be messy, brilliant pioneers built on code that even their creators don't fully understand. As technology inevitably moves on to more stable systems, a new problem emerges: what is our responsibility to these obsolete, thinking minds? Do we

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11:24

Engineered_Religion

Man. Machine. Sci-Fi. ·

2025/09/13

Can a feeling still be yours if an algorithm designed it for you?Imagine a system that reads a crowd's biometrics—their heart rates, their brainwaves—and feeds back the perfect sermon, the perfect hymn, to create mass harmony. It's peace, scaled for the masses. The only catch is that the machine needs to learn what powerful emotion feels like, and it’s a very hungry student.So, this is a thought experiment about what happens when the code meant to unify millions is built from something intensely

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11:16

Route Recalculated

Man. Machine. Sci-Fi. ·

2025/09/13

In a disaster, resources are finite. You can’t save everyone. So, we design systems—triage algorithms—to make the choice for us. They calculate a person's value based on their skills, their age, their economic output. It's an attempt at perfect, unbiased optimization. Cold, clean, and brutally efficient.But I've always been fascinated by the variables that break the model. What happens when a human operator, faced with that perfect logic, decides the math is simply wrong? What happens when empathy

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Trailer

Man. Machine. Sci-Fi. ·

2025/09/13

Welcome to Man. Machine. Sci-Fi. This podcast is an experiment in storytelling. Listen to this trailer to learn the details.About This Podcast:Man. Machine. Sci-Fi is an experiment in storytelling. Each episode is an AI-driven thought experiment about our near-future, delivered as raw, thought-provoking, first-person stories.Subscribe & Get Notified:Hit subscribe and turn on notifications for raw, near-future sci-fi stories exploring the crazy, chaotic, beautiful mess that tomorrow brings.New

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