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A.I. (and Subsets)

The defining technology of the moment — machine learning, neural networks, large language models, and the tools reshaping every industry. News, analysis, and the questions worth asking.

71 Posts · Apr 1, 2023 – Mar 20, 2026
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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…

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.

Feb 12, 2026 · 19 min read

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.…

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…

ANI \ AGI \ ASI· 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."

Ethics \ Principles· Jan 15, 2026 · 15 min read

AI Didn't Break Democracy. We Did. Four Decades Ago.

W03 - AI didn't kill democracy; it exposed a decades-old decay. The real culprit? Years of choices hollowing our institutions. AI isn't the assassin, but a mirror reflecting what we've ignored. It didn't create the…

Technology· Jan 1, 2026 · 12 min read

The $20 Billion Distraction

W01 - While Silicon Valley built trillion-dollar AI castles, we mapped every patent but missed every human cost. 130+ weeks of tech analysis revealed our fatal blind spot: we're not creating intelligence—we're…

Big Tech· Dec 25, 2025 · 11 min read

The Amnesia Machine

W52 - Before the internet, erasing history required burning books. Now, Silicon Valley's memory merchants have perfected something far more powerful: curated forgetting. Their algorithms don't just bury inconvenient…

Technology· Dec 18, 2025 · 13 min read

Again, No One Leaves A Good Company

W51 - For a year, I analyzed tech's shiny future while ignoring the human costs beneath. That wasn't an accident—it was by design. A Silicon Valley-adjacent insider's confession about the industry's selective amnesia.

👁️ A Closer Look· Dec 4, 2025 · 11 min read

Architecture Over Scale

W49 - When Google validated my AI thesis, I didn't celebrate. I shrugged. While they wrote 50-page theories, I'd already built the solution—in $75 cow tags. They're just arriving at the starting line as I cross the…

👁️ 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· Nov 20, 2025 · 14 min read

AI Won't Take Your Job. It'll Take Your Purpose. That's Worse.

W47 - What took 200 years to destroy rural America will take 5 years to obliterate white-collar work. The farmers were blindsided by mechanization. We're not blindsided—we can read every word of our obsolescence in the…

👁️ A Closer Look· Nov 6, 2025 · 13 min read

Power in the Background

W45 - While tech giants wage PR battles over AI, Amazon is quietly building its neural substrate in Indiana cornfields. The real power isn't in the models—it's in who owns the ground they stand on. And we've seen this…

👁️ 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 23, 2025 · 11 min read

Silicon Valley Is Building a $600 Billion Casino With Chips That Expire in Three Years

W43 - Tech giants are spending $600 billion to generate $40 billion in revenue—lighting $15 on fire for every $1 earned. The only innovation? Building the first bubble where the infrastructure rots faster than the…

👁️ 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· Sep 23, 2025 · 17 min read

The Hard Truths About Our Technological Moment

Five Silicon Valley 'visionaries' walk into a bar, each convinced they're revolutionizing the future. Meanwhile, AI evolves faster than ethics, institutions crumble, and engineers forgot physics exists. Welcome to our…

👁️ 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· Aug 21, 2025 · 8 min read

Digital Supersaturation of Why Everything is About to Crystallize

W34 - Every human attention pattern has been mapped & algorithmically exploited. Every business model decomposed into trackable APIs. Platforms promised infinite growth but now operate like supersaturated…

👁️ A Closer Look· Aug 14, 2025 · 9 min read

Why Engineers Build, Not Code

W33 - Engineers build things. Coders follow instructions. We're creating a generation that confuses symbol manipulation with problem-solving—while bridges collapse and "smart" systems fail because nobody understands…

👁️ 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· Jul 24, 2025 · 9 min read

Scrapyard Futures in the Digital Ruins

W30 - In 2050, as megacorps crumble, communities thrive by repurposing abandoned tech. Neighborhoods run on salvaged Powerwalls, Ring networks retooled for healthcare. Welcome to technological archaeology, where…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jul 17, 2025 · 9 min read

America’s Broken Funny Bone

W29 - We've weaponized humor, chosen outrage over laughter, and turned comedy into tribal warfare. America's funny bone is amputated. The punchline? We can't laugh together. Welcome to the paradox: the joke's on us, but…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jul 6, 2025 · 12 min read

We're Not Creating God, We're Discovering God

W27 - God isn't created or worshipped, but discovered in quantum mechanics and neural networks. Rival worldviews realize they've been allies. The twist? We're not decoding divinity, we are the code. We're not creating…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jun 26, 2025 · 11 min read

The Misinformation Industrial Complex

W26 - Your social feed: a battleground where AI content farms profit from economic anxiety. Welcome to the Misinformation Industrial Complex. Fake corporate exodus stories exploit real fears. That viral video isn't just…

👁️ A Closer Look· May 23, 2025 · 7 min read

The Day We Made Ourselves Obsolete

W21 - We've spent millennia convinced our intelligence made us special. Now, as we eagerly surrender our cognitive sovereignty to AI, we're about to discover how terrifyingly wrong we were. Welcome to the twilight of…

👁️ A Closer Look· May 18, 2025 · 8 min read

The Grand Delusion: Why Our Models of Reality Are Fundamentally Incomplete

W20 - Think you've got reality figured out? Think again, smartypants. From quantum quandaries to AI's identity crisis, we're all just blind bats in a cosmic cave. Dive into the hilarious hubris of human knowledge, where…

👁️ 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· Mar 5, 2025 · 14 min read

How Apple and Companion AI Killed Privacy Without Anyone Noticing

W10 - While you fought over encryption, Big Tech pulled off the greatest surveillance sleight-of-hand. Your iPhone isn't just watching—it's redefining privacy itself. And Apple, once privacy's champion, just became its…

👁️ A Closer Look· Feb 20, 2025 · 23 min read

No Collar Jobs—Beyond the AI Disruption

W08 - Psst! AI just overturned the job market applecart: It's not just a bad year—it's a swirling shift. Experience is now your biggest liability, and your resume? It’s more like a relic in this new AI-augmented world.…

👁️ 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· Jan 16, 2025 · 8 min read

The Computational Autocracy—Inside the UAE's Blueprint for AI-Powered Control

W03 - What if your every choice was subtly orchestrated by an invisible digital puppet master? Dive into Abu Dhabi's audacious AI gambit: a chess master's strategy for a future where the lines between choice and command…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jan 3, 2025 · 14 min read

The Invisible Resolution—NVIDIA's Neural Optics and the Death of Computing as We Know It

W01 - NVIDIA's patent isn't just another tech milestone. It's a silent earthquake, reshaping the bedrock of computing while the industry obsesses over surface tremors. We're not talking incremental change. This is how…

👁️ A Closer Look· Dec 27, 2024 · 8 min read

No One Leaves a Good Company: An OpenAI Story

W51 - OpenAI's fall from grace isn't just corporate drama—it's a chilling preview of how every ethical AI governance attempt could unravel. As we race towards AGI, are we dismantling the very safeguards meant to protect…

👁️ A Closer Look· Dec 5, 2024 · 16 min read

The Home Depot Revolution: Amazon's Unconventional Path to Chip Innovation

W48 - Amazon's AI revolution isn't in a high-tech lab—it's in a bland office with Home Depot parts. While Silicon Valley polishes its crystal palaces, Amazon engineers are rewriting the innovation playbook, one drill…

👁️ 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· Oct 24, 2024 · 13 min read

Beyond the Silicon Dream: Why Consciousness Can't Be Computed

W42 - Quantum neurons shatter silicon dreams of consciousness. Tech leaders mistake AI prowess for awareness, ignoring physics' deeper truths. True consciousness emerges not from faster computing, but from a…

👁️ A Closer Look· Oct 17, 2024 · 4 min read

The AI Revolution Isn't What You Think It Is

W41 - The AI revolution isn't about machines thinking like humans—it's about discovering that intelligence itself follows mathematical principles. What we're learning isn't just changing technology; it's forcing us to…

👁️ A Closer Look· Sep 26, 2024 · 11 min read

The Power of Questioning: Revolutionizing Learning in the AI Era

W38 - Socrates meets Siri: Dive into a world where ancient wisdom collides with AI, transforming your daily jog into a quantum physics lesson. Discover how questioning, AI, and audio learning are revolutionizing…

👁️ A Closer Look· Sep 19, 2024 · 7 min read

The Audio Revolution: AI and the Future of Sound

W37 - From waveforms to words, AI is rewriting the audio editing playbook. Imagine deleting podcast bloopers with a keystroke or conjuring the perfect soundtrack at will. Welcome to the audio revolution—where your next…

👁️ A Closer Look· Aug 22, 2024 · 9 min read

Pixels and Perceptions: Unraveling AI's Influence on Children's Reality

W33 - AI's not just changing the game, it's rewriting the rulebook of reality for our kids. Buckle up as we dive into a world where pixels paint perceptions and algorithms architect understanding. It's childhood 2.0,…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jul 11, 2024 · 9 min read

VR's Quest for 50 Million: The Ultimate Experience Economy Catalyst

W27 - VR: not just pixels and polygons, but the next frontier of human experience. As it races towards 50 million users, VR isn't just changing games—it's rewriting the rules of business, art, and social interaction.…

👁️ 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…

👁️ A Closer Look· May 10, 2024 · 12 min read

Crowdstrike: Authorization Not Recognized

W19 - In the quantum-AI labyrinth, firewalls crumble like ancient ruins. Yet authorization remains the Gordian knot tying our digital selves to cyberspace. As we race towards SSI and graph-powered identity, remember:…

👁️ A Closer Look· Apr 30, 2024 · 7 min read

Revolutionary Technology Allows Seeing Through Walls Using Wi-Fi Signals

W16 - Revolutionary Wi-Fi technology enables seeing through walls and tracking human movements, raising ethical considerations. Discover how DensePose and Wi-Fi advancements redefine possibilities in wireless sensing.

👁️ A Closer Look· Apr 25, 2024 · 5 min read

How CNN's Work Wonders and Bypasses Copyright

W15 - CNNs: The AI pasta maker that turns dog photos into digital spaghetti, slicing and dicing pixels until—voila!—it barks 'Woof!' Ethical food for thought: Is your AI's training data al dente or half-baked?"

👁️ A Closer Look· Apr 1, 2024 · 22 min read

Disney’s Autonomatronics Odyssey

W12 - Disney’s Imagineers redefine storytelling with Autonomatronics: the art of illusion meets autonomous interaction, where dreams dance with technology.

👁️ A Closer Look· Mar 25, 2024 · 12 min read

An Apple a Day Keeps the Privacy Away

W11 - Beyond the era of the iPhone, Apple constructs the foundation for a pioneering journey, laying the groundwork for a future that promises to redefine our interaction with technology in profound and unexpected ways.

Mar 20, 2024 · 11 min read

I'm an ElevenLabs Pro!

Discover the revolution in voice synthesis with our deep dive into ElevenLabs: groundbreaking technology for animation and performance capture. Sample the magic ✨

👁️ A Closer Look· Mar 4, 2024 · 6 min read

Navigating the Tightrope of AI Transparency and the Risk of Overexposure

W08 - Dive into the tightrope walk of AI transparency: balancing crucial clarity against the pitfalls of overexposure, with insights on protecting progress, fostering trust, and ensuring ethical AI advancement.

👁️ A Closer Look· Feb 12, 2024 · 11 min read

Demystifying AI's Role in Eco-Energy

W05 - The question then arises, one as intriguing as it is vital: How can this intelligence, artificial yet astoundingly astute, revolutionize the way we manage and consume energy? Can it lead us to an oasis of…

👁️ A Closer Look· Jan 25, 2024 · 10 min read

The AI Revolution in Healthcare: Reshaping the Future of Medicine

W03 - In the quiet corridors of a bustling hospital, a silent revolution hums. AI analyzes images at lightning speed, detects threats before they manifest, and crafts treatments with eerie precision. The future of…

🚨 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…

Unsolicited Advice· Jan 11, 2024 · 6 min read

Crash Course on What’s Coming

W01 - To truly appreciate the art and science of technology, we must become versed in the subtle, often silent, shifts of innovation's undercurrents. It is there, in the unseen, in the intricacies of code and the silent…

Emerging Tech· Dec 1, 2023 · 16 min read

Apple’s Privacy: Stretching Across An Ultra-Wideband

A Theory in Utilizing Anonymized Point Clouds 🔮 Privacy, a valuable but often elusive commodity in our digital era, receives front-and-center attention due to increasingly alarming data breaches and tracking concerns.…

Technology· Oct 23, 2023 · 11 min read

Revolutionizing Education: When Silicon Meets Chalk

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence 🔮 In the wake of a digital dawn, the chalk-and-blackboard era of our past is ebbing away replaced instead with ones and zeros. An evolution is occurring, underpinned by the surge of…

Technology· Sep 30, 2023 · 10 min read

France’s Mistral AI: Stepping into the Arena

Challenging the Giants 🔮 In an audacious move evidencing the global expansion of AI, France’s Mistral AI has rolled out its debut generative artificial intelligence model, aiming its sight directly at established AI…

Technology· Sep 27, 2023 · 3 min read

The AI Powerhouses: Amazon, Microsoft, and the Battle for AI Supremacy

The plot of technological progression is being redrawn by Amazon and Microsoft, two tech giants deepening their stakes in Anthropic and OpenAI respectively. Fueled by more than strategic intent, these moves are…

Economic ≠· Sep 26, 2023 · 2 min read

Amazon’s AI Adventures: The Potential Consequences for Financial Creditors in the FTX Market

Splash in the AI Pool 🔮 Amazon is known for defying the status quo, evidenced by its recent alliance with leading AI research firm, Anthropic. This echo-inducing leap into artificial intelligence could have significant…

Cyber \ Security· Jul 7, 2023 · 9 min read

Unmasking Biases in Pre-Trained Transformers with Laundered Data

The Dirty Truth: The Biased and Unsettling Low-Functioning Pre-Trained Transformers We’re Building Our Future On 🔮 Have you ever put a red shirt in the white load? Pink everywhere, right? That’s what we’re dealing with…

ANI \ AGI \ ASI· 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…

May 10, 2023 · 7 min read

The Rise of Algorithms: Are They Taking Over?

An Original Recipe for Change 🔮 Algorithms silently guide our daily decisions, influencing and forming the world we live in. From the stock market to medicine, from music to national security, algorithms are becoming…

Creative \ Design· Apr 26, 2023 · 9 min read

Art & Technology; The Longest Romance Going and What it Means in the Era of AI

A relationship worth putting time into and nurturing, or else 🔮 Creativity is a process of understanding the end goal or result and the steps in which to communicate it effectively. It also involves original thinking,…

Apr 11, 2023 · 6 min read

The Era of Explainable AI In Today's World: The Future, The Insights, and The Trust

As machine learning models become increasingly complex, it has become difficult to understand how these models arrive at their predictions. Moreover, when these models go wrong or go rogue, it becomes even more…

Apr 5, 2023 · 7 min read

Co-Pilot X: The AI-Powered Developer Experience

Code your way to automation and replace yourself 🔮 GitHub has created a tool called GitHub Copilot that helps developers write code up to 55% faster. It is an AI pair programmer that auto-completes comments and code.…

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…