Dear ______ Letters
Dear Sam,
On vendor-financed delusions, circular capital, the $100 billion retreat nobody wants to name, and what it means that the CFO of the world's most important AI project doesn't bother with the money flywheel.
Token Wisdom
✨ Pearls of Wisdom
148th Edition 🔮 Token Wisdom \ Week 08
This week: Mini brains solve engineering problems. AI reads MRIs at 97.5% accuracy without explaining why. Consciousness might live in electromagnetic fields. Forests changing how they breathe. We built systems that work before we understand them.
Lessons Learned
The Persistence of Inferior Standards
W08 - Your calendar is broken, your clock runs on Bronze Age finger-counting, and your interest rates are modeled on Sumerian goat reproduction. We're not living in a high-tech civilization. We're running 21st-century software on medieval firmware.
✨ Pearls of Wisdom
147th Edition 🔮 Token Wisdom \ Week 07
This week: Systems so capable they've become fragile. So optimized they have no room left to fail. So advanced they've made us hostages to their own perfection. It takes 250 poisoned documents to collapse an entire AI. Not millions. Not thousands. Two hundred and fifty. We've called this progress.
A.I. (and Subsets)
Threading a Very Fine Needle
W07 - We built a thing that's really good at making us not need ourselves anymore, and we're calling it progress. It only takes 250 poisoned documents to corrupt an entire AI system. Not millions. Not thousands. Two-hundred, and fifty. That’s less than a few hours work, collectively.
✨ Pearls of Wisdom
146th Edition 🔮 Token Wisdom \ Week 06
This week: How does anything complex exist in a chaos-built universe? Blood Falls explained after a century. Fast radio bursts from monster shocks. Ancient math predates writing. AI nears human intelligence. WiFi tracks you invisibly. Order shouldn't exist—but does.
A.I. (and Subsets)
How Does Order Emerge in a Universe Built for Chaos?
W06 - The universe writes in entropy, but you're an improbable paragraph. Physics can explain why everything falls apart but not why complex things like you exist in the first place. The universe's greatest paradox awaits.
✨ Pearls of Wisdom
145th Edition 🔮 Token Wisdom \ Week 05
This week: Donut-shaped light promises better wireless while scientists question Earth's population counts. Chinese satellites push competitors lower, academic work vanishes with one click—technology creates opportunities and vulnerabilities alike.
ANI \ AGI \ ASI
The Zombie Singularity of Intelligence Without Understanding
W05 - TV's "Person of Interest" warned us about AI without wisdom. Silicon Valley's response? Scale the zombies, optimize the pattern-matching, and call it progress. We're teaching machines to play chess while forgetting why some pieces shouldn't be sacrificed.
Dear ______ Letters
Dear Dario,
You preached AI ethics from your personal blog while selling Anthropic's independence to Amazon. Now your 'Constitutional AI' sits on Bezos's property, paying rent."
✨ Pearls of Wisdom
144th Edition 🔮 Token Wisdom \ Week 04
This week: Ancient alchemy becomes reality while AI threatens to flatten culture into comfortable mediocrity. From CERN's lead-to-gold alchemy to mirror cells that could end all life, we explore how frontier science resurrects old dreams and nightmares as surveillance capitalism extracts everything.
Strategic Measures
The Greengrocer Goes To Davos
W04 - When a system runs on collective pretense, it inevitably breaks. Not when the fiction fails, but when maintaining it costs more than telling the truth. I wrote this in a newsletter. Canada's PM just delivered it at Davos. Either Ottawa's subscribing, or truth has its own timing.