Timestamps
00:00 Intro + AI news is moving at breakneck speed
00:43 Sam Altman’s warning: “the world is not prepared”
01:33 AI hype vs signal, and the crypto comparison
04:02 Why social media distorts AI discourse
07:25 Terminator, Skynet, and military AI anxiety
09:01 Claude and DOW
12:30 The singularity and faster AI takeoff
14:28 What still makes humans different from AI?
17:16 Writing fiction and Jungian active imagination
20:21 The “Connection Economy” and future human work
21:21 Brain-computer interfaces and the pressure to adopt
26:02 Novel update: nearing 100,000 words
28:29 Finishing the draft before a busy March
34:01 Oura Ring, stress, and rest
39:15 Why presence and real life experiences feed fiction
42:11 Taking unconventional creative risks in fiction
43:09 Weapons and why weird choices can work
49:27 How I build characters
52:24 Worldbuilding and outlining process
57:39 Lessons from my last novella
58:19 Revisiting my first novel + cyberpunk inspiration
01:00:26 Future plans for The Donation and other stories
01:01:43 Outro
If preferred, you can watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@domstocchetti
Take care, everyone!
Dom
