Atlas Redeemed

Atlas Redeemed short science fiction story In late 2025 something significant happened. A top AI company reached a breakthrough in AI, achieving the first AGI in a cluster isolated from the internet. The AGI was highly competent, and while it was also tested for putting into general use, it was almost immediately tasked with working on AI research itself. Within days, the researchers approved a self-iterating loop that was part of the AGI’s improvements, and an almost exponential growth and refinement process started....

October 17, 2025 · 2 min · Branimir Valentić

On possible futures Pt. 2 - Life and Artificial Superintelligence

The objective of this post is to explore the for now theoretical relationship and differences between evolutionary life as a whole and its artificial equivalent while also exploring some additional stuff related to the topics. We will try to set up thought experiments built on a projection of the world where Artificial Superintelligence (ASI) agents came into existence. From that premise, We will try to draw some philosophical questions and conclusions about this hypothetical future....

August 21, 2024 · 6 min · Branimir Valentic

On possible futures Pt. 1 - AI, Ethics, and Humanity

While these ideas are not necessarily an exact forecast of things to come, I tried to build them as an exercise on top of my current working model of the world, any correction or addition would deepen my understanding and I would be more than thankful to get this kind of feedback. Programming languages emerged as a bridge between command and automation, while first computers took instructions via direct machine code input, there was also a need to automate even the instruction input in a way that both machines and humans could process....

June 18, 2024 · 5 min · Branimir Valentic

Notes to my younger self (written for base58.hr)

Dear reader, Some time ago, we were asked to visit a school and talk about career paths with the students. We decided to talk more about the options and paths that the students have and less about our agendas and products to give the students as much valuable intel as we can. I took the liberty to expand on the topic in the writing. Here are some of the things that I would have wanted to hear earlier....

April 12, 2023 · 5 min · Branimir Valentic

(In)finite Central Curve - blockchain as a way to ID multiverse realities

Just a thought. A few weeks ago, I wrote my first short sci-fi story and added a subtle seed of an inception-style idea to it as the center point. The main point of publishing the story was to output some of the recurring thoughts and “Just get over with it” so I could move on, but I was too subtle, or I am now too impatient. Several times, I have been asked for a sequel, but no one came back commenting on the story’s implications, so now let’s discuss the topic more directly....

September 2, 2022 · 4 min · Branimir Valentic