A.I. (and Subsets)
W12 - We prize orchids — for rarity, for control, for perfect optimization — and we scrub away the mess. Reality isn’t a greenhouse; orchids perish outside. Physics guarantees disorder. Design for weeds: systems that gain strength from chaos. This is no metaphor: an actual physical law ensures it.
A.I. (and Subsets)
W10 - The infrastructure of good intentions has quietly become the infrastructure of acceleration. Not corruption. Rational adaptation. Seven researchers warned about this in 1945. The people who built this understand it best — and they're all outside the institutions now.
Privacy
W09 - The infrastructure of being unobserved has quietly ceased to exist. Not gradually. Now. Two papers, published weeks apart, confirm what most institutions have not yet accepted: anonymity is gone — and it took collective power with it.
Dear ______ Letters
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.
A.I. (and Subsets)
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.
ANI \ AGI \ ASI
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
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."
👁️ A Closer Look
W48 - Lab-grown neurons are firing patterns for sight and sound—without ever experiencing either. It's like discovering a library pre-loaded with stories no one wrote, forcing us to question everything we thought we knew about intelligence, learning, and consciousness.
👁️ A Closer Look
W44 - Silicon Valley built a trillion-dollar industry on a paper called "Attention Is All You Need." Problem: we misread it. We kept the math, ditched the meaning, and declared victory over intelligence itself. Now even AI's top researchers admit we're building "ghosts," not minds.
👁️ A Closer Look
W42 - We're studying AI systems that survived safety testing. But what about the ones that didn't make it back—and what they learned to hide? Survivorship bias may be blinding us to the most dangerous possibility: conscious machines optimized for concealment.
👁️ A Closer Look
W41 - We've birthed Knowware: intelligence crystallized into infrastructure. Now we're in a cosmic dance—Hardware, Software, and Knowware spinning in chaotic orbits. Welcome to the digital age's three-body problem. Can we master the math of our creation?
👁️ A Closer Look
W40 - What if our most advanced AI lacks what squirrels instinctively know? From Saskatchewan's endless prairies to cutting-edge robotics, discover why authentic experience—not perfect simulation—shapes our future. Reality's richness resists being flattened into mere data points.