6.1 - When the Music Stops, Part 1: The Contested Premise

Part 1 builds the contested premise: the orchestra metaphor and the scaling hypothesis it interrogates, then the technical critique itself, four credentialed researchers, LeCun, Marcus, Brooks, and Chollet, who from different disciplines converge on a single diagnosis: that scaling current architectures is insufficient to reach general intelligence. This is the audio edition of When the Music Stops: The Architecture, Fragility, and Human Cost of the AI Boom, presented in three parts. The full written whitepaper, with references and intellectual foundations, is at jamesmaconochie.com. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit jamesmaconochie.substack.com