Disruptive Empathy

Disruptive Empathy

A Question for the AGI Builders

Consciousness in the commit log

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Eric Near
Dec 04, 2025
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We are living through a strange, exhilarating moment. I have spent the better part of twenty years watching infrastructure evolve (from mainframes and terminal emulators to serverless functions and global edge networks), and I have never seen a technological shift ripple through the human organization quite like this one. We used to worry about uptime a…

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