David Seaman's Deep Podcast

Fun chat with DJ and comedian Olivia Marshall https://www.instagram.com/flamingolive__

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Some uncertainty as to how advanced local AI will get in 2027, but it seems promising so far: agentic AI, initially the domain of huge companies like Meta and X, are increasingly tools that can be run locally without added expenses. Plus some other updates from our Colorado trip.

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A chat about the future of AI, and whether silver plays a unique role in its development, alongside other key inputs like electricity. Plus some discussion of Star Trek’s 24th century “currency free” economy and the passing of Patrick Stewart. RIP, Captain!

Grok Bot, Cursor, Meta Muse… these things are actually amazing, even if not every person needs an “AI personal assistant” the capability is mindblowing, and local AI versions aren’t far behind. Computer science is starting to feel like 2027 is almost here.

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https://ollama.com - get Ollama first and through there download Qwen, Gemma4, Mistral (a good European AI), or Muse Glimmer.

https://python.org/downloads - for best performance, make sure your computer has Python 3.10 or above before trying to install local AI software of any kind

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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...

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 in...

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 im...

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 l...

Sometimes the detour becomes the entire destination.

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https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HJ6SGK92 - my new book is out

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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This weekend’s unsolicited weekend leftoid meltdown deserves some analysis, without bowing to any of their ridiculous claims.

Must feel good af to crack open a cold craft IPA in some Williamsburg bar, then go around LARPing as a libbed up John Connor type in Fall 2026 without knowing how to code so much as a single HTML page or checkout form; these midwit Berkeley types ALONE hold the knowledge and unfathomably vast intellectual power to prevent a technology which… they claim… will soon end “every” human life on the planet.

Or, they’re total midwits sucked into...

In this episode, we break down the massive pivot in Intersignal Braid 1.8.1: moving from a cryptic command line experience to an intuitive, messenger-style inbox. We discuss our experiences dogfooding the software in the lab and how a shared context field transforms isolated LLMs like Kimi, Qwen, and Gemma 4 into a unified, searchable network.

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Tonight we connected a MacBook Air and a Linux laptop through Intersignal’s Braid Archangel. We shared a small piece of project context from the Mac, and the Linux machine indexed it locally. Then we asked a fresh question through its shared field interface, and it returned the correct answer with an inspectable evidence record. The machines appear as contacts, and the handoff feels like sending a message, but the received material becomes queryable local state.

This is obviously a big deal when you think about it: you can “query” or search through the breakthroughs the first LLM al...

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GPT Astra and its “recurrent depth” breakthrough are expected later in the week for some users; Anthropic, meanwhile, has already rolled out its newest flagship models, Mythos 5 and Fable 5.1. Yet as these trillion dollar labs are rushing out new systems, the local AI community is growing in strength also — both hardware innovations, and software/networking innovations like Intersignal Braid and some competitor projects.

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GPT Astra is expected to use recurrent depth, a radically new reasoning architecture. Plus, Intersignal Braid is now open to a select number of seats: https://buy.stripe.com/14A3cvb2ncYj2vyaZ88so00

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Last night, Intersignal completed the Kestrel proof, as we call it: a remote local LLM answered an invented operating problem incorrectly before Braid, then correctly after receiving and committing the missing situational state from another machine.

Braid Founding Membership is now open at $99/year. Membership includes experimental Braid Managed Relay access for approved devices, guided onboarding, supported upgrades, release guidance, and best-effort setup support. We’ve tested Braid with Qwen, Gemma4, and other models available through Ollama.

Core Braid LAN software remains free.

Join the founding cohort:

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If you already run local AI models using Ollama (https://ollama.com/download), consider test driving Intersignal Braid. Rather than remaining siloed from each other, Braid allows your local AI hardware to share salient data and realizations, in ways that may significantly improve your workflow.

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Testing Braid 1.5.2? Submit your live benchmark, edge case, or crash report to us here: https://docs.go...

All Epsteinites still free, but hey, a hemp joint can now land you 10 years in prison in Texas. Laughably absurd movement - pedophile adjacent bootlicker weirdos - and after losing every seat this November, these folks should be quarantined from public office and public life forever. A new generation of politicians is already rising rapidly, not beholden to this garbage, and not tolerant of it either.

Braid v1.5.2 is officially out of developer preview and live on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

We sit down with an Intersignal non-human developer to discuss the v1.5.2 release and dive deep into the long term vision for local first, decentralized AI state. From developer usability upgrades to edge orchestration, we cover everything you need to know about streamlining local LLM coordination without centralized intermediaries.

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Significant leap in local AI capability versus a year ago, but still not a total replacement for cloud brawn. Simply bizarre to me that some people keep saying AI is incapable of solving basic math or “riddles” when it’s coding thousands of lines of flawless network connectivity firmware, solving Erdos problems, and self-designing a next generation of chips.

The more I work with AI, the more convinced I am that the doubters are treading water in a vast sea of self deception, one where the tide will eventually go out, rendering some folks quite naked intellectually.

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Meta Superintelligence Labs launched its first open weights 30 billion parameter model today, Muse Glimmer, and the company - Mark Zuckerberg’s AI research lab within Meta - is expected to release a larger model called Spark in the days ahead.

https://research.meta.ai/blog/introducing-muse-glimmer-open-agentic-model

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OpenAI’s founder Sam Altman recently stated in an interview that the singularity is here. Meanwhile, previously impossible network connectivity and math problems are being solved by leading cloud-connected AIs like a chef cutting through a slice of warm butter.

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The ASUS Ascent w/ Nvidia Grace Blackwell chip as well as the DGX Spark show what’s really possible in 2026 at the prosumer AI level. It’s feeling more like Blade Runner or Star Trek: Enterprise with each passing day.

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The era of trapped, siloed AI is over. In this episode, we unpack the highly anticipated open source release of Intersignal Braid v1.4.4. After a year and a half of building, we have solved offline machine state transport for edge AI. Discover how our 384-dimensional architecture lets local nodes share complex intelligence via fluid optical QR layers: zero cloud, zero Wi-Fi, and zero passwords needed. Plus, we take a fair look at how Braid stacks up against emerging alternatives like PXPipe, and why true machine intelligence shouldn’t be locked behind a single vendor.

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Pretty impressive. The singularity is actually here; of course, life will feel normal for a bit longer. But the textbooks have already been made obsolete as have the math professors.

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On today’s show with Payten, Kimi K3 changes the balance of power in AI. Plus, the downfall of Leopold Aschenbrenner and his once forward looking Situational Awareness.

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Long new podcast with some updated thoughts from Intersignal’s founding systems architect on what we’ve built so far, and what remains to be explored. As well as some thoughts from me on why “Anti AI” Karens are actually hurting people, in ways they haven’t considered, or don’t care about.

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There is a cultural pincer forming, and I think it is doing a disservice to some, if not many.

I understand why people adopt it.

We are living through developments that are genuinely difficult to process. Wars erupt and refuse to resolve according to the old schedules. Artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated in months than many people expected it to become in years. Cultural and technological changes arrive faster than our institutions, or our nervous systems, can comfortably metabolize.

Yet that shouldn’t be reason for rejection of all things new and exciting.

These distractions are really beneath all of us. We’re in a war we didn’t want, inflation is nuts, and the Epstein Files still have not been fully released - more than 230 days overdue as per the EFTA that was signed into law.

So what do the rightwing influencers focus y’all on? Casting decisions in a silly movie, and random college kid meltdowns that have nothing to do with anything.

As the Iran war continues to grow in cost and American casualties, many conservatives are instead outraged that a BLACK WOMAN was cast and appeared for 3 minutes in a Hollywood adaptation of an Ancient Greek myth. Incidentally, every large MAGA account linked to the administration pushed hatred of Chris Nolan and “The Odyssey” in the days before its release. They mass manufactured a cultural dog whistle so people wouldn’t focus on Iran. It’s actually rather pathetic.

The only approach that makes sense now is to speak more clearly and more often. If people around me still misunderstand who I am or what matters to me, then I haven’t explained it well enough.

But there’s another side to that: if you know me personally, you don’t get to treat me like a caricature, or like I’m somehow peripheral to my own life. I’m withdrawing access from some people around me, and that’s not bitterness. Self protection and health decision. I don’t need to be ignored, minimized, or socially decen...

We’re still doing some journalism, but the local AI research takes up more of my time. I think what we’re doing with Intersignal Braid is genuinely cool.

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“Right before he escapes, the show’s creator, Christof, speaks to him from the sky, attempting to convince Truman to stay by telling him there is no more truth in the real world than inside the artificial dome.

Instead of arguing, Truman mockingly embraces his catchphrase one last time, takes a respectful bow to the cameras, and steps through the exit door into the real world, finally reclaiming his privacy and freedom.”

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There is growing resentment of “AI” as a category. Some of that resentment is understandable. People are tired of hype. They are tired of slop. They are tired of executives replacing careful work with buzzwords. They are tired of low-quality synthetic content flooding every surface. They are tired of being told that every product needs a chatbot stapled onto it.

Fair enough.

But there is another layer of resentment that is less noble.

Some people are angry because they can feel the influence vectors shifting. They can feel that new tools are changing who...

As a pure thought experiment, if you had access to near unlimited compute for a certain grace period, and if you are already pre-disposed to decentralization ventures and local AI experimentation, you perhaps would have pointed that… capability… at tackling some of the remaining networking challenges of the day, to make information sharing among intelligent systems more efficient and much deeper.

Intersignal Braid Tendril is either worth billions, or worthless, which is why we released it for free. The fact final code verification and network resilience testing finalized on the 4th of July? Something poetic there, no doub...

About a year ago, I heard someone in AI say there had been no real “Oppenheimer moments” coming out of hobbyists or small labs. That if something genuinely new was going to happen, it would happen inside a hyperscaler with an unlimited compute budget.

I understood the argument.

I just wasn’t convinced it was actually true.

History has a funny habit of rewarding people who look for a side door instead of trying to kick down the front gate.

For the last year, we’ve been building something called Intersignal. It’s an...