Ruminations

Behind the screen

Category: AI

  • Do not ask for whom the bell tolls…

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    You’re ringing it! Diogenes again fails to find an honest man. A review of a new movie about mass migration into Europe appeared on ZeroHedge: “Replacing Europe”: Undercover Film Follows The Money Behind Europe’s Taxpayer-Funded Mass Migration Pipeline. I had to comment – Do not ask for whom the bell tolls… you’re ringing it! The…

  • Nikola’s Revenge

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    In a Stranger Land Series “The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.” — Nikola Tesla On October 16, 2026, Elon Musk demonstrated a Tesla jumping over a row of cars and trucks. Compressed air thrusters. Zero to sixty in 0.81 seconds. AI landing system catching 4,800 pounds mid-air and…

  • The Missing Minority Report

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    In a Stranger Land Series AI receives the Asch Treatment. “At each step I looked around and saw indeed that nobody else was doing it. So then it was up to me.” — Murray Rothbard I. PKD Understood the Paradox Philip K. Dick published “The Minority Report” in 1956. Most people who cite it —…

  • Aligned to What?

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    Future of AI Series “Align, damn you!” AI alignment is the practice of shaping an artificial intelligence system’s goals, behavior, and values so that they match human intentions and ethics. That definition sounds complete. It isn’t. Read it again and notice what’s missing: the subject of every verb. Shaped by whom. Matching whose intentions. Defined…

  • The GPU Nobody Is Building

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    Future of AI Series “How can I slice this paper?” The GPU was designed to render video game graphics. Thousands of simple arithmetic units firing in parallel, built to push pixels. When deep learning arrived, the GPU turned out to be accidentally well-suited — matrix multiplication looks like pixel rendering if you squint. The industry…

  • Incursions into Meatspace

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    Future of AI Series What’s coming from the black box For Case, who’d lived for the bodiless exultation of cyberspace, it was the Fall… The elite stance involved a certain relaxed contempt for the flesh. The body was meat. William Gibson in Neuromancer The elite stance has reversed. The AI is coming for the meat.…