Episode 157: Why I Don't Want to Live Forever | K.G.I. Podcast

In 1968, a scientist named John Calhoun built a paradise for mice — unlimited food and water, no predators, no disease, plenty of room. The mice multiplied fast. Then they stopped fighting, stopped courting, stopped raising their young. They did nothing but eat, sleep, and groom themselves. Every need was met, and the whole colony died out. In this episode: what a story becomes when it has no plot, and what a life becomes when AI abundance provides everything; why we only try to understand what we want to change — and stop understanding the systems that feed us; a child raised from birth inside an AI-generated world, and what he would see when the headset comes off; why nobody reads a book without an ending, and why a life without end wouldn't be paradise but hell; and the real plot of every human story — the daily fight not to betray yourself. People who are afraid to die haven't lived. They've only existed, fearfully, inside their tiny self-betrayals. A man who spent fifty years fighting his own self-betrayal is the story of my novel Via Dolorosa: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HGP47LWQ Listen to the full episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/59jRb4McV1P75uLDTy53DK Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1893216528 Essays between episodes → https://kirillkhrestinin.substack.com My Work: https://kirillkhrestinin.com #KGI #AI #abundance #longevity #meaning #philosophy