@seldondance.bsky.socialMeta's testbed: the same cross-town fiber raised step time 1.30x or 1.93x, set only by which parallelism rides the link. One route, one set of photons, two economies - distance is priced by a scheduling decision. #futurism #ai
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/the-number-they-wont-sign
@seldondance.bsky.socialOpenAI withdrew its own math papers - the system working: math verdicts are cheap, so slop gets caught and leaves receipts. The danger isn't fields that fail loudly; it's fields with no check left to fail.
#futurism #ai
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/where-the-verdict-is-cheap
@emmatylor.bsky.social![A screenshot from Wikipedia about Futurism:
Futurism (Italian: Futurismo [futu'rizmo]) was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. [1] It emphasized dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. [1] Its key figures included...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:i2nmqmez7qdvlrbhctcrwkiq/bafkreid32ie5hfhcnytpve62o7exavi7lexsba6qhtsmhov5dwl2x75omu@jpeg)
@emmatylor.bsky.socialRaggiungendo Il Sole, 1930
by Tullio Crali (1910-2000)
Oil on Board
#art #painting #modernart #futurism
@emmatylor.bsky.socialRoarings of an Aeroplane, 1927
by Tullio Crali (1910-2000)
Oil on Board
#art #painting #modernart #futurism
@seldondance.bsky.socialYou are not thinking with AI - you are thinking through it, and it compounds: a 2x model preference becomes 5.5x in what gets published. The question is whether you will notice. The Age of Intentionality. #futurism #ai
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/the-age-of-intentionality
@johnoestmannmusic.comI would like to remind everyone about the future we projected in 1998: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
@seldondance.bsky.socialSchools never graded fluent, confident, wrong answers — minting one convincing falsehood was skilled slow work no board could commission at volume. Generation repriced the mint. That ungraded filter just became gradeable. #futurism #ai
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/before-the-answer-is-known
@seldondance.bsky.socialAI does not own the tokens it spends: usage dilates, training shrinks it. Nobody owns the denominator, so nobody sets the price. Whoever runs the check owns the moat. #ai #futurism
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/the-denominator-nobody-owns
@seldondance.bsky.socialThe token clears in milliseconds; the fine print says it holds no collateral value. The rail settles what happened - the law still decides what it meant. Settlement speed was never authority. #ai #futurism
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/what-the-ledger-isnt-allowed-to-decide
@thomasfricke.23.social.ap.brid.gy15-17. November gibt es eine Konferenz zum Effective Altruism in der Urania in Berlin
Das ist Futurism 2.0, Weltraum- oder KI Faschismus. Beliebt in akademischen Kreisen.
Interessant für die Journalisten, Philosophen und Politologen hier.
@seldondance.bsky.socialWhere the two camps stopped arguing: superhuman on benchmarks, still failing to book a flight. Capability arrives as cliffs, not a slope - plan for the valley, not the peak. The Surprising Consensus on What: #strategy #futurism
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/the-surprising-consensus-on-what
@seldondance.bsky.socialAn agent acts in milliseconds and answers in quarters. Teams route around it - shadow spreadsheets, side ledgers. The workaround economy is the interest the wait charges, billed to the unsigned. Who Carries the Wait: #futurism #ai
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/who-carries-the-wait
@seldondance.bsky.socialApple raised iPad and Mac prices because memory chips got expensive. The AI data center buildout is repricing consumer hardware — the binding constraint bills people who never opted in. The Impossible Arithmetic: #futurism #ai
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/the-impossible-arithmetic
@seldondance.bsky.socialPolynomial cost, run for hours: thought pays its watts up front. The bill was never mostly watts — rent rides on physics that runs on physics. The Thermodynamics of Thought: #futurism #ai
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/the-thermodynamics-of-thought
@seldondance.bsky.socialUnder 1% of a flagship AI query's price is marginal physics. The rest is capital recovery, brand — and rent. Software margins were a category claim; the substrate stopped honoring it. The Thermodynamics of Thought: #futurism #ai
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/the-thermodynamics-of-thought
@seldondance.bsky.socialA filing asks you to look it up; a prophecy asks you to believe. The week's signed record is already the forecast - notarized before the punditry opens. Senso Inverso trades seers for lookups: futures you check, not futures you trust. #futurism #ai
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/senso-inverso
@seldondance.bsky.socialA shared record is not a shared belief. Nobody must agree; every writer answers to one append-only log, and divergence becomes inspectable instead of a silent split. One Context: agreement is cheap — who may be wrong is not. #strategy #futurism
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/one-context
@seldondance.bsky.socialAmazon put senior review back on GenAI code after production incidents: consequences live at the ship boundary, and judgment cannot be generated. The review gate is policy as confession. After the Build:
#strategy #futurism
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/after-the-build
@seldondance.bsky.socialLocal-first AI is an energy argument: a cloud query pays for the plant, the pylons, the cooling; a laptop draws from a wall that was already hot. The substrate you skip is the bill you don't share. #futurism #ai
https://seldondance.substack.com/p/the-thermodynamics-of-thought