The Soft Brothers Business Dictum and the Illusion of Choice for the Common User
Fierce brand rivalries can coexist with concentrated ownership, shared infrastructure and mutual dependence. What does this mean for consumer choice and the AI economy?
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The Limits of Superintelligence: Even Gods Have Their Hands Tied
Why intelligence cannot abolish the constraints of time, resources and physical reality.
The Information–Reality Paradox: Is the Universe an Evolving Computation?
What if information, mathematics, computation and physical reality are not separate things, but different aspects of a deeper process? Explore the possibility that the universe is an evolving computation—and the limits of what this idea can explain.
Why China May Win the AI War With Moderate Models: The Layman GPT Advantage
China may not need the world’s smartest AI to reshape the market. Efficient models, industrial scale and affordable everyday intelligence could change the economics of AI.
Intelligence Is Scaling. But Is Human Progress Keeping Up?
AI and scientific capability are scaling rapidly, but human progress depends on application, execution and deployment. Why water, energy and sufficiency must remain central to technological priorities.
Textbook Intelligence, Functional Dumbness: The AI Execution Gap
AI can explain a problem brilliantly and still fail to solve it. Explore the gap between understanding, execution, verification, and the experience needed to turn intelligence into reliable results.
Intelligence Is Cheap. Making Money Is Hard.
AI has made knowledge easier to access and synthesise, but not wealth easier to create. The missing link is fine-tuning: the practical judgment, experience and execution that turn intelligence into economic value.
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ASI Is Not a Universal Solvent: The Fundamental Limits of Problem-Solving Intelligence
Superintelligence may discover extraordinary solutions—and reveal why some problems have no solution under their defining constraints. Explore physical, mathematical and epistemic limits on solvability.
Borrowed Authority — Bonus Article: The Mathematics of Conspiracy
How mathematical patterns, sacred geometry, numerical coincidences and esoteric symbolism can lend authority to claims that go beyond the evidence—and how to test the connections.
The Cute Tiger Cub Problem : Boom or Doom of AI ?
AI doom can be real without every AI-doom narrative being reliable. The Cute Tiger Cub Problem examines how satire, music, borrowed authority and visual certainty can blur the line between evidence, interpretation and speculation.
AI & Human Intelligence: A New Three-Part Journey Begins
AI & Human Intelligence begins with Book I: The Augmented Mind—a three-part exploration of artificial intelligence, human intelligence, and how AI may change the way we think.
Will AGI Let Elites Rule Forever—and Make Human Bargaining Power Disappear?
A Nobel economist’s new paper on automation and repression raises a disturbing question about what happens when humans become less economically necessary.
What If Intelligence Is Older Than Life?
What if intelligence is not something that began with biological life? This deliberately unhinged hypothesis asks whether intelligence could be a deeper feature of reality—and whether what we call artificial intelligence is really discovering something much older.
Raw Intelligence: Why Sell Courses When You Can Rent a Mind?
AI may not merely create artificial intelligence. It may create an economy in which human intelligence itself becomes scalable—through Mind Books, cognitive access, attribution and royalties.