Author: Kyle
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War Is a Racket, Updated
The Prohibition/Monetization Mechanism from United Fruit to Ozempic “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service… I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues. I…
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The Real Replacement
How Three Price Floors Are Being Pulled Simultaneously — and What Comes After “Bad Human!” “The goal of the future is full unemployment, so we can play.” — Arthur C. Clarke, 1966 “The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.” — Margaret Sanger, 1920…
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The United States of Palantir
How Modern Pharaoh Built His Granaries Without Storing Any Grain I. The Original Playbook — Genesis 47 The story begins with an information advantage. Joseph, son of Jacob, possessed something Pharaoh did not: foreknowledge. Through the interpretation of dreams — seven fat cows consumed by seven lean cows, seven full ears of grain consumed by…
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But Why?
The Wall of Abstraction “You can’t see the forest for the trees.” “Do I really need to stand here?” I. The Child’s Question Every parent knows the experience. It begins innocuously. Why is the sky blue? Because sunlight scatters off the atmosphere. But why does it scatter? Because of the way light interacts with air…
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A Misallocation of Capital
The $1.1 Trillion Bet That May Never Turn On Part Two of The Future of AI series. Part One: “Beyond Silicon: Toward Living, Evolving, Self-Healing Computation” (Dissolution Too, Chapter 11, April 2026) Part One: The Scale of the Bet In February 2026, the largest single month of startup funding ever recorded produced $189 billion in…
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The Real Burden of Government
What the Lapps Knew That We’ve Forgotten I. Eight Hundred Years of the Same Racket Somewhere in the Arctic interior of what we now call northern Finland, sometime in the winter of 1240, a Sámi family broke camp and moved their reindeer herd south along a frozen river valley. They had no maps. They recognized…
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That Black Box Has a Button
Emergent Evil and the Architecture of Absolution There is a short story by Richard Matheson called “Button, Button.” A couple receives a mysterious black box with a single button. A stranger explains the terms: press the button and receive a large sum of money. The only cost is that someone, somewhere — someone you don’t…
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Cracks in the Façade
Epilogue to Dissolution If at first the idea isn’t absurd, there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein Now we come full circle and return to the idea that started this series – Anomalies – and the fact that conventional wisdom or current scientific knowledge does not account for everything in our Reality. I…
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The Future of AI
Beyond Silicon: Toward Living, Evolving, Self-Healing Computation “Commerce is our goal here at Tyrell. More human than human is our motto” – Dr. Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner Introduction The current narrative about AI focuses almost entirely on software — larger models, better training data, more sophisticated architectures. But the most profound revolution in artificial…
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Faux Science
The Architecture of Manufactured Truth “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” — George Orwell I. PERSONAL WITNESS In 1980 I joined a computational physics research group at Northwestern University. What I witnessed over four years had nothing to do with the pursuit of…