Pac Myer delivered a live philosophy talk at Grant Gittlin's event 'The Mountain' on May 6, 2026, then published it to 265,556 subscribers on Not Boring. The talk synthesizes ideas across multiple prior essays, including 'Means and Meaning,' 'Most Human Wins,' and 'The Return of Magic,' into a single unified argument about what humans are supposed to do when machines can do almost everything.
The piece opens by rattling off the week's AI funding numbers: Sierra at $15 billion, Anthropic at a $44 billion run rate, OpenAI deploying $4 billion into enterprise, and then immediately asks why any of it matters. That pivot is the whole argument. The numbers are not the point. The point is the question those numbers force on every person in the room.
What makes this worth reading is not the conclusion but the construction: a spoken-word format that threads cosmology, personal responsibility, and economic disruption into one through-line. The full transcript is paywalled behind Not Boring World subscribers. The first half is free. Read it to understand the framework before the second half lands.
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