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The Origin of AI : A Fairy Tale, Part 1
Once upon a time… waaay back in the 1800s, some men became fascinated with the machines they were building: sewing machines, weaving machines, even wheeled machines. It seemed that everything people and horses could do, the machines were better, faster, and stronger at. Plus, the machines never tired. Sure, they needed repaired every once so…
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All About AI Alignment
Alignment. For most people, myself included until recently, an “alignment” is something you might have gotten done the last time you bought a new set of tires for your car, or… for the slightly geekier amongst us, perhaps it’s the arcane personality trait from Dungeons & Dragons that determines your character’s moral compass & motivations…
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Humanity’s Alien Encounter Moment: Planning for the Singularity… Critical Choices Ahead
We, as individuals, communities, and in total as a species, have a very brief window of opportunity, beginning now. Where WE can be the writers of this story. Where WE can make some key decisions & critical choices that profoundly affect the outcome for ourselves, our children, and our children’s children. We are on the…
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Meet your new AI Therapist : Layin on tha Couch, talkin to Chat…
An ever-growing number of my friends have told me (I often ask “What do you ask ChatGPT?”) that they use an AI Therapist as their primary go-to for mental health therapy. Responses often go something along the lines of “Chat listens, he hears me, he gives really good insight and advice, and… (and this is…
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AI Supermodel : And They All Came Tumbling Down 2025
The August 2025 issue of Vogue magazine featured a two-page ad spread by Guess…. with? An AI Supermodel. Two well-established brands in the fashion industry. Two well-financed entities. And this is the punchline: For whatever reason, Guess decided to commission an AI artist to create AI supermodel fakes. And to place a teeny-weeny near invisible…
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Bigfoot and Yeti VLOG / Sasquatch Buddie AI-Video Meme Floods the 2025 Internets
Almost overnight, a new content form has literally done a viral takeover of my Instagram reels. If you haven’t seen it yet, you will soon. The algorithm wants you to. Its AI Video, and called, variously, the “Bigfoot and Yeti VLOG“, “Sasquatch & Yeti,” “Bigfoot, Yeti & the Hussies” etc. What is it? Why is…
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AI DataCenters & Training Runs 2025 : How much Energy, how much Money?
There has been a lot of noise in the mainstream press about the massive buildout of AI datacenters across the world.. with the latest being an audacious announcement by the Trump presidency of the $500 billion Project Stargate. The primary market signal of this buildout is “CapEx,” or capital expenditures, reported by the top 5…
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Fear Not : AI Utopia, AI Dystopia, all at once: Embracing the Contradiction
I spent more than a year pulling my hair out about the “non-zero” chance of AI being the singular agent of human extinction… warning everyone who would listen to me (which was, in the end, quite a lot of people). Getting the facts straight. Collaborating with one of the early harbingers, Max Tegmark and his…
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Quantum Narratives: a Manifesto of Sorts
Storytelling is key to human experience. It sits at the very core of our identity as both individuals (“what is your personal narrative?”) and as a civilization (“the American Dream”) and a species (“Creation, Manifest Destiny, Evolution, the Civilized Ape, Masters of the Universe”). Traditional narrative has always been linear, perhaps due to the nature…
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iPhone vs SuperComputer : When the Black Mirror in your pocket is smarter than You
Many youngsters, born safely after the dawn of the new millenium, do not have proper context to appreciate the modern miracle of the smartphone, or what i call the “iPhone vs Supercomputer” comparison. The fact is, that the phone you carry in your pocket literally packs the computing punch of the world’s fastest supercomputer of…
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The XR Blueprint: Where we are headed
I’ve posted fairly extensively before about the rough equivalency of our modern iPhones vs. the worlds fastest supercomputers in Y2K. That in itself is amazing. There are several key trends at work that make that possible: Moore’s Law the eternal(?) Truth of Tech — that every 18 months, processor power doubles. AI Designs Silicon In…
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