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Thinking On Paper

Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson

An independent technology show for those who want to understand the human impact of AI, space tech, quantum computing, and robotics, without the hype, the jargon, or the billionaire worship. Mark & Jeremy present over 300+ episodes with the CEOS, founders and outliers actually building the future. We ask the questions you"d ask if you were in the room. Listeners have learned from IBM, D-Wave, Kevin Kelly, the inventor of the microprocessor, Microsoft whistle-blowers, moon mining NASA CEOs,

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00:05:44

Emotional AI Will Make People Go Bananas│ Kevin Kelly...

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2025/09/07

Most people think the main breakthroughs in AI will be about speed, scale, or automation. But futurist and Wired founder Kevin Kelly believes the arrival of emotional AI will 'make people go bananas'.Kelly explains how coding emotions into AI will change how we bond with machines in ways more powerful than search or automation alone. He shares insights on why we’ll treat AIs like pets, how consciousness exists on a spectrum, and why he calls them “artificial aliens” more like Spock than

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00:00:48

The Thinking On Paper Trailer

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2025/09/06

Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson sit down with CEOs, founders, scientists, and cultural thinkers to ask the hard questions about AI, quantum, and Web3. How is technology reshaping work, culture, and what it means to be human?They created Thinking On Paper to slow the pace, map connections across technologies and battle the noise. When input equals output, how you curate is everything. Long-form interviews every Thursday.Book Club every Monday.Clear. Curious. Critical.

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00:36:29

Microsoft Fuels The Climate Crisis: The Terrifying...

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2025/09/04

AI is supposed to speed up the green energy transition. Instead, ex-Microsoft insiders say it’s increasing fossil fuel extraction, driving up global temperatures, and making net zero almost impossible.As part of its stance on sustainability, Microsoft pledged to remove 5 million metric tons of carbon over 15 years. But its AI contracts with Exxon and Chevron could add 51 million metric tons every year — three times its annual footprint, and more than ten times what it promised to cut.While much of

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00:32:22

Inside The Empire Of OpenAI: Truth, Lies & The Thirst...

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2025/09/01

Karen Hao’s Empire of AI is a rare inside account of how OpenAI, Sam Altman, and a small circle of Silicon Valley elites built the most powerful AI company in the world.In this episode of Thinking on Paper Book Club, Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson read the first four chapters, tracing the tension between OpenAI’s founding ideals and the reality of billion-dollar deals, boardroom battles, and global consequences.The conversation covers the pivotal moments that shaped the rise of OpenAI: Elon

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00:42:38

What are AI AGENTS (And How Do You Trust Them?) |...

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2025/08/28

AI AGENTS ARE HERE, and there could be billion of them by the end of the decade. They will be your personal assistant, your bank manager and travel agent. They will organise your emails, book your holidays and invest for your retirement. The more adventurous will play the stock markets, code software and act as cyber security. If you're asking what an AI agent is - which we answer here - the next, and bigger question is: how do you TRUST your AI agents? Andrew Hill, CEO and co-founder of Recall,

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00:28:40

The Meaning of Life: Consciousness & Human Experience...

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2025/08/26

Federico Faggin’s Irreducible ends with the hardest questions: What is the meaning of life? What is evil? And how do we avoid becoming machines ourselves?In this final Book Club episode, Mark Fielding and Jeremy Gilbertson get up close and personal with seities, non-algorithmic comprehension, and why imagination, empathy, and curiosity matter more than math. If consciousness is fundamental, where does that leave AI and us?They end, as the book does, with the biggest question of all: what is the

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00:35:34

The Physics of Free Will: Federico Faggin on...

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2025/08/21

Hold on to your consciousness. In Chapter 12 of Irreducible, Federico Faggin battles classical assumptions: probability, the block universe and maths don't exist.The universe is conscious, your consciousness is made of seities, conscious units that report back to the quantum field (what Faggin calls 'The One') so that it can know itself.That is the meaning of the universe.Yes disruptors and curious minds, book club has taken a turn for the absurd, and we love it.In this episode:- Mark tries to

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00:37:33

Laila: AI Customer Service That Feels Human | Momntum...

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2025/08/19

20 million customer service jobs are at risk. Companies that get this wrong face churn, costs, and lost trust. But MOMNTUM’s AI agent Laila is showing what’s possible: 86% of cases resolved without handoff and early signals of 4,000% ROI.In this episode of Thinking on Paper, Brian Kenny, MOMNTUM’s co-founder, explains why today’s support systems are broken — and how building from first principles with AI can actually make customer service feel human again.You'll Learn:- Why slapping bots on old

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00:36:05

Streaming Sunshine: Space Based Solar Power, Minus...

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2025/07/15

Space Solar has a revolutionary vision to enable Net Zero and global energy security with Space-Based Solar Power.An 80 × 80 m satellite in low-Earth orbit, continuously exporting one megawatt of electricity to a ground station, is not science fiction. According to Martin Soltau, co-CEO of Space Solar, that first-of-its-kind demonstrator will fly within five years.In this conversation Mark and Jeremy Think On Paper about the engineering reality and the policy headaches behind space-based solar power

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00:38:10

When AI Solves Disease and Poverty | Dario Amodei on...

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2025/07/08

If powerful AI ends disease and poverty, what comes next for humanity? In this Thinking on Paper pocket-edition, Jeremy and Mark dissect Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s essay Machines of Loving Grace. Amodei sketches a near-term world—five to ten years—where reliable cures for infectious disease, most cancers, Alzheimer’s and even genetic disorders, are a reality.The conversation pushes that optimism up against tougher questions: who owns the data-center “country of geniuses,” how rich and poor nations

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00:19:06

The Nature Of The Seity: Federico Faggin, Irreducible...

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2025/07/03

Good news ladies and gentlemen, Death isn't the end! Your consciousness lives on for eternity. In Chapter 10 of Irreducible, Federico Faggin, Mark and Jeremy Think on Paper about the real architecture behind consciousness: The Seity. Quantum gremlins, seities want only to know. To know themselves and help the universe - The One - know itself. And the seities have been here from the beginning, because they are everything. Reality is a construction of seities. Yep book lovers, this book club is taking

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00:21:39

Seities: Consciousness, Life And Free Will (Federico...

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2025/07/01

Consciousness, life and free will exist from the very beginning as properties of the holistic whole (The One). According to Federico Faggin, the inanimate universe didn't come first, but derives from a deeper quantum reality inhabited by seities with consciousness and free will that communicate meaning with each other. It is this self knowing of the seities that gives rise to stars and planets and... you.Yikes! Is god a seity? Or are the seities, combined into One, our real god? What if

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00:37:16

Zen And The Art of Artificial Intelligence | Ram...

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2025/06/25

Can AI ever be aware? Can it be conscious—and if so, what would that mean for business and the future of work? In this week's show, Jeremy and Mark sit down with Ram Srinivasan, author of The Conscious Machine: From Artificial to Enlightened Intelligence, to think on paper about consciousness, Advaita Vedanta, panpsychism and why Eastern philosophy changes how we design every AI system. It might be the most important podcast on AI you listen to today. Rethinking work in an exponential age Linear

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00:37:08

Tokenized GPUs: GAIB’s Plan to Turn AI Compute into...

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2025/06/20

Can you own a slice of the $7 Trillion AI infrastructure boom without investing in Big Tech stock?GAIB CEO Kony Kwong says yes. He joins Mark and Jeremy to Think on Paper about tokenizing GPU clusters so raw compute pays real-world yield.In this episode you’ll learn:AID token ≈ “mutual fund” of GPUs – own fractions of dozens of data-centre deals in a single synthetic stablecoin.Start with $10, earn blended yield – every AI job that rents those GPUs streams fees back to token-holders.Why liquid,

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00:31:46

IBM Starling: 20,000 × Fault-Tolerant Quantum...

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2025/06/17

Will IBM’s Starling Quantum Computer really deliver 20,000 × today’s computing power by 2029?IBM Quantum CTO Oliver Dial joins Mark & Jeremy to Think On Paper about Starling, the first quantum chip built for real-time error correction and the milestone that could turn quantum hype into quantum reality.Fault tolerance, decoded. Forget raw qubit counts; Starling aims for a 1 : 1 000 logical-to-physical ratio, trading 10 000 noisy qubits for 200 “perfect” ones.$30 billion on the line. IBM’s biggest

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00:42:18

From WIRED to White Dwarfs: Katia Moskvitch on Honest...

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2025/06/15

Why would an award-winning tech journalist quit to study the physics she once wrote about?Katia Moskvitch won Science Writer of the Year, wrote for WIRED and the BBC and then walked away to finish a physics degree.Now the author of Neutron Stars: The Quest to Understand the Zombies of the Cosmos joins Mark & Jeremy to Think on Paper about neutron stars, quantum computing, and why science writing fails the moment it stops asking questions.In this conversation you’ll hear:Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s

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00:28:31

Quantum Consciousness & AI: Is Awareness Fundamental?

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2025/06/05

Did consciousness exist before life itself? Is it fundamental to the universe? Mark and Jeremy continue their book club exploration of Irreducible, by Federico Faggin.In Chapter 8 of Irreducible, Faggin goes bonkers and redefines physics, maths and what it means to be human: consciousness isn’t just a byproduct of your brain, but a fundamental feature of the universe. Creation, order, and free will, Faggin’s “quantum information–based panpsychism” offers answers to the biggest questions any human

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00:49:52

Robby Yung: Animoca CEO On What It Takes To Make a...

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2025/06/02

Breaking News! This video wasn't made with Veo3. However realistic it looks, those are real humans having a real conversation about web3, gaming and life.Hot of the press, uploaded here for your viewing pleasure.An 8/10, 4.5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐must watch.Very cool to be interviewing Robby Yung, CEO of Animoca Brands. As someone who manages a $6 billion portfolio, he's as knowledgeable as you'd expect.With 30 years in technology, he's been there, seen it, got the t-shirt.It's a gaming t-shirt

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00:28:25

AI Wrote A Book: We Read The World’s First Novel...

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2025/05/23

Would you read a book written by an AI? We did. Do you care who writes the stories, as long as they move you to laughter, tears or thoughtful exploration? We do.When Brian Naughton challenged Claude 3.7 Sonnet to write a novel, he didn't expect what happened next. The result was The Echo Chamber, the first book written entirely by AI. And not only did the AI write the book, it planned and edited it. All the characters, character arcs, setting, pacing, twists and conversations. No human in the loop

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00:27:27

Why I Wish Artificial Intelligence Was Conscious:...

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2025/05/22

AI isn't conscious. It never will be. I wish it was! In Irreducible (Federico Faggin) Chapter 7, Mark and Jeremy tackle the “hard problem” of consciousness. Why can machines process data without ever tasting joy or suffering pain? Real curiosity? They'll never feel that. Yes, it's a feeling.They wrestle with qualia (the raw spark of experience) and question whether a machine can ever cross from the realm of make belief into awareness, sentience and... love.Your mind verses a pattern-matching

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