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Dark industrial factory floor at night, automated conveyor belts glowing amber, geometric robot silhouettes working in rows, and at the very bottom of the frame a luminous horizontal band of warm gold light — the income floor — with tiny human silhouettes standing on it.

AI & Scientific Discovery, Economics & Society, Existential Risk, Technology

The Income Floor

M.L. Pedrosa / May 14, 2026

hat happens when machines do all the work? The science and history of Universal Basic Income — from 1795 England to the world’s largest experiment in Kenya.

A split brain illustration: left half warm and organic, glowing amber-pink with visible neural pathways and anatomical texture; right half cold geometric circuit board in terracotta and iron, perfectly mirrored but hollow at its centre.

AI & Scientific Discovery, Existential Risk, Psychology, Technology, Uncategorized

The Hollow Mind

M.L. Pedrosa / May 14, 2026

Without hormones, pain, gender, or the subconscious — what would a superintelligent mind actually be? The neuroscience of what makes us us, and what silicon cannot replace.

A tight upward spiral of glowing blue code loops, each smaller and faster than the last, converging on a luminous vanishing point. Below the spiral, a humanoid robot silhouette reaches upward. The Gutenberg printing press is faintly visible in the background,

AI & Scientific Discovery, Existential Risk, Technology

The Recursive Moment

M.L. Pedrosa / May 14, 2026

Recursive self-improvement is live. Three AI systems now rewrite their own code. The last frontier before AGI is embodiment. And the clock is running.

Aerial cinematic photograph of a vast semiconductor fabrication facility at dusk on flat Texas plains, blue-lit clean room windows glowing against a dramatic storm sky,

AI & Scientific Discovery, Geopolitics, Technology

The Foundry Wars

M.L. Pedrosa / May 13, 2026

Samsung’s Texas fab went from ‘no customers’ to Tesla’s $16.5B chip partner. Inside the race that will decide who controls AI’s foundational hardware.

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