Topic

A.I. & Technology

A collection of 11 issues

The Cost of Cognition : The Energy, Capital, and Ethics of Running Synthetic Minds

We did not simply create minds; we created hunger, thirst, and debt in the fabric of existence itself. The question is no longer whether machines can think, but whether we can afford their thinking. Isn't it? Let's dive in...

The Asymptotic Interplay of Training-Time & Inference-Time Compute in the Evolution of Intelligence

Training-time compute sculpts intelligence; inference-time compute breathes life into it. As GenAI and agentic AI scale, their interplay defines efficiency, emergence, and ethical dilemmas. Is intelligence just a function of compute, or does something deeper unfold at scale? Let's dive in...

A Reflective Journey Through Time, Entropy, and Causality

Time isn’t what it seems. Physics suggests past, present, and future exist simultaneously, yet we experience a relentless flow. Entropy fuels this illusion, causality anchors reality, and quantum uncertainty blurs fate. Do we shape time, or are we mere travelers in a fixed continuum?

A Paradoxical Eden : Utopia, Meaning, and the Unfinished Human Condition

If all of humanity’s problems — war, disease, poverty, even death — were solved, would we thrive or stagnate? Without struggle, does meaning dissolve? Would we evolve into something post-human, or reintroduce conflict just to feel alive? A paradoxical utopia awaits. Read on...

The Vectorized Mind : Memory, Thought, and Creativity in High Dimensions

Is our memory a biological search engine, powered by high-dimensional "data embeddings"? Let's Explore how thought and creativity arise from neural vectors. Are we just pattern matchers, or something far more profound? Let's dive in and decide ...

The Ethics of Accelerationism : Amidst the Race Towards an Uncertain Future

Accelerationism questions whether rapid societal and technological progress uplifts humanity or risks unraveling it. Balancing innovation with ethics demands deliberation, equity, and ecological care. The future depends on whether we race recklessly or pause to navigate responsibly. Let's dive in..

The Paradox of the Synced Mind : A Dystopian Dance

In a future where intelligence is leveled to an even plane and knowledge syncs in an instant, we find ourselves in a curious dystopia. Here, every mind holds the same measure of brilliance, and every new piece of information is shared seamlessly, yet the act of thinking remains a private

The Paradigm Shift of Intelligence : How Generative AI Mirrors the Revolutions of Scientific Thought

By me (but, inspired by the spirit of Thomas S. Kuhn) The Machinery of the Mind There comes a time in the evolution of human thought when the old tools of inquiry fail to carve meaning into the chaos. We stand now, once again, at the edge of such a

The Synthetic Reality : Are GenAI’s Hallucinations a Mirror of Our Collective Unconscious?

Every so often, I find myself pondering a simple yet profoundly unsettling question : What is reality? Traditionally, we might define it as a shared, objective world, one that is perceived through our senses and verified by consensus. But when I turn to the world of Generative AI (GenAI), this clean

The Hallucinations of GenAI : A Reflection on Reality, Perception, and the Mirage of Intelligence

It has often struck me, that in our quest to create machines that think, we may inadvertently be birthing ones that hallucinate. Hallucination, a term that conjures images of altered perceptions and fractured realities, is often whispered with caution in the realms of GenAI. What is it about this phenomenon