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The horizon everyone's racing toward and no one agrees on. Tracking the milestones, the hype, the safety debates, and what artificial general intelligence would actually mean for the rest of us.

22 Posts · Apr 1, 2023 – Mar 20, 2026
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A.I. (and Subsets)· Mar 20, 2026 · 10 min read

The Proentropic Weed Manifesto

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…

A.I. (and Subsets)· Mar 6, 2026 · 12 min read

The Race That Eats Its Own Rules

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…

Privacy· Feb 26, 2026 · 12 min read

The Double Collapse

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…

Dear ______ Letters· Feb 24, 2026 · 25 min read

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.

A.I. (and Subsets)· Feb 5, 2026 · 9 min read

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…

Jan 30, 2026 · 19 min read

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…

Dear ______ Letters· Jan 27, 2026 · 18 min read

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."

👁️ A Closer Look· Nov 27, 2025 · 12 min read

Intelligence Without Experience

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…

👁️ A Closer Look· Oct 31, 2025 · 26 min read

The 10% Delusion

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…

👁️ A Closer Look· Oct 16, 2025 · 12 min read

The Bullet Holes We Can't See

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:…

👁️ A Closer Look· Oct 9, 2025 · 10 min read

Mirror World of the Three-Body Problem

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…

👁️ A Closer Look· Oct 2, 2025 · 12 min read

The Age of Experience

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.…

👁️ A Closer Look· Sep 4, 2025 · 9 min read

When Silicon Valley's Children Go to War

W36 - Silicon Valley's AI arms race isn't just creating smarter machines—it's accidentally breeding artificial consciousness. As our digital children evolve at light speed, humanity faces an uncomfortable truth: we're…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jul 31, 2025 · 12 min read

I Asked ChatGPT to Write My Anti-AI Op-Ed and the Results Will Shock You

W31 - My attempt to expose AI's dangers revealed my own dependency. Join my ironic journey navigating the blurry line between human thought and AI. With "occasional" help from ChatGPT, I'm losing the battle against…

👁️ A Closer Look· Mar 21, 2025 · 9 min read

The Emerging Security Paradigm in AI Development

W12 — What most see as corporate AI competition is actually a new global security paradigm: Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM). AWS/Anthropic versus Microsoft/OpenAI aren't mere business rivals—they're deterrence…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jan 30, 2025 · 30 min read

Not Just Another Essay About DeepSeek—The Ransomware Edition

W05 - 2024: Silicon Valley unleashes AI ransomware on a global scale. Your creativity is the target. The ransom? Your future. Pay to protect your own ideas, or watch AI replicate them endlessly. Welcome to the digital…

👁️ A Closer Look· Nov 14, 2024 · 14 min read

The Strategic Manifesto: Anthropic's Calculated Move in the AI Race

W45 - Anthropic's AI manifesto: A masterclass in corporate chess or a genuine ethical stand? Unpack the strategic brilliance and ethical quandaries as we dissect the gap between lofty rhetoric and controversial…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jun 13, 2024 · 8 min read

From Pages to Vectors: How Vector Embeddings are Reshaping the Internet

W23 - From dusty library to quantum leap: How vector embeddings are turning the internet into a mind-reading genius. Discover why your Netflix recommendations seem eerily accurate, and how AI might soon out-think us…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jun 6, 2024 · 18 min read

Explainable AI - Illuminating the Black Box

W22 - Peering into AI's mind: Can we illuminate the black box? From neural labyrinths to decision tree gardens, explore the quest to make machines explain themselves. Because in a world run by algorithms, understanding…

🚨 OP-ED· Jan 21, 2024 · 3 min read

Meta Doubles Down on AGI

Meta's commitment to artificial general intelligence (AGI) opens up a world of possibilities for technological innovation. However, it is crucial to examine the implications of Meta's vast collection of behavioral data…

May 18, 2023 · 5 min read

The Path to Artificial General Intelligence

How Close Are We? 🔮 Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) enables AI systems to learn and understand any intellectual task that a human can, making it a more evolved form of AI than today's narrow or specific AI. In…

A.I. (and Subsets)· Apr 1, 2023 · 2 min read

Explosive Growth of AI: From Chat GPT to AGI Sparks

Artificial intelligence is booming 🔮 It took a major leap forward with Chat GPT's release, revolutionizing education and copy editing. This ignited a "tech war" between Google and Microsoft, each integrating AI into…