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.
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."
W04 - When a system runs on collective pretense, it inevitably breaks. Not when the fiction fails, but when maintaining it costs more than telling the truth. I wrote this in a newsletter. Canada's PM just delivered it at Davos. Either Ottawa's subscribing, or truth has its own timing.
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 crisis—it just made it impossible to deny any longer.
W02 - In a world obsessed with "just fix it," here's the uncomfortable reality: Companies won't act ethically, governments won't regulate properly, and your reusable straw won't save the planet. Real change isn't about blueprints—it's about power. Build it or keep pretending.
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 crystallizing it into infrastructure that thinks back.
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 truths—they replace them with carefully selected distractions.
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.
W50 - They labeled it ADHD. But what if your rapid-fire mind isn't broken—just faster? Here's how the medical system mistakes cognitive speed for disorder, and the unsettling reason they need you to believe you're broken.
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.
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 Terms & Conditions. We just keep clicking 'Accept' anyway.
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 movie before.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 delightfully doomed moment.
W38 - Disney silenced Kimmel, sparking a mass exodus that crashed their systems—and credibility. This misfire exposed corporate America's costliest strategy: cowardice as prudence. Mickey's white gloves? Perfect for waving the surrender flag. Welcome to the new Magic Kingdom: where dreams die.
W37 - Today's Luddites aren't smashing machines—they're teachers demanding longhand math and surgeons questioning AI diagnoses. While we debate ethics, our judgment muscles atrophy. The real question: can we preserve human agency before we forget we had it?
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 no longer the parents. We're the pets.
W35 - What happens when an entire civilization discovers their most sacred institutions are running on childhood logic? Your driver's license is Santa Claus with government backing. We never grew up—just graduated to fairy tales with late fees, criminal penalties, and armed enforcement.
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 solutions—stable-looking but fundamentally unstable. One disturbance crystallizes everything.
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 both code AND concrete.
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 reliance. Spoiler: Team human isn't winning.
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 yesterday's e-waste is tomorrow's lifeline.
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 we've forgotten how to laugh.
W28 - Democracy crumbles from within as we fragment sovereignty along identity lines. Our rush to grant every group "sovereign" status weakens true political authority. Ironically, this quest for recognition may pave the way for the authoritarianism we fear.
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 God; we're uncovering it.
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 clickbait—it's information warfare fueled by your midnight scrolling.
W25 - You know that hollow feeling after three hours of phone scrolling? Eyes burning, neck aching, weirdly anxious about crises you can't solve but can't remember learning anything useful? That's your intelligence being strip-mined in real time.
W24 - Your vote might count, but your voice is being algorithmized out of existence. We're not seeing democratic backsliding—we're witnessing startup methodology applied to governance itself, replacing democratic coordination with corporate management systems.
W23 -Welcome to the Great Human Cognitive Surrender where we trade thoughts for convenience, choices for efficiency, and essence for UI. AI isn't just rising—it's feasting on our discarded autonomy. We, the last Homo sapiens, gleefully serve ourselves as the main course. Nom! Nom! Nom!
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 human exceptionalism.