Notes from a Science Fiction writer camping on the intersection of the Fourth Turning and the Singularity
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Dick and Jane Take a Long Look Back (3)
[*Almost all of the totals on these charts are the products of exponential increases. It is the nature of compounding increases that the bulk of the increase occurs on the far end of the series. Example: 2X2=4X2=8X2=16X2=32X2=64. In this se...
Dick and Jane Take a Long Look Back
Episode 2: The Bend Begins
(2010–2020)
TOM: When we last spoke, we discussed the first ten years of your lives. During that period, you were still children. Today we’ll move into your next ten years. For most people, the time from their...
Dick and Jane Take A Long Look Back
Editor’s Note: When writing or talking about The Singularity with normal folks, I consistently find that the single hardest concept for most people to grasp is what Ray Kurzweil, the godfather of The Singularity, calls The Law of Accelerati...
How to Put a Recursive/Strange Loop AI System on Your Own Hardware
The strange loop no longer has to stay in the lab. Labs already disclose that their models write most of the code merged into their own production repositories. Open-weight systems aimed at agentic work continue to improve under permissive...
No, I Haven't Gone Away
I’m in the part of northwestern Indiana that got brutally savaged by the recent round of storms that brought NIPSCO and every other utility to its knees beginning last Tuesday morning.
As a consequence, I’ve been without power since around...
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