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“One thing I've learned since I was born / that I must die since I was born” - Robert Filliou
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Grothendieck's Hexenküche (1971)
Grothendieck's "Hexenküche" (German for "Witches' Kitchen") is a famous 1971 satirical doodle and handwritten note by mathematician Alexander Grothendieck. After spending two hours explaining the Riemann–Roch theorem, he reduced it to a commutative diagram, devils and flames included, then warned that our drive for knowledge and discovery was becoming a "logical delirium detached from life."
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The AI world is delusional. Not a single man-made system has reached the capabilities of a parrot, a mouse, an ant, a worm, or a bacteria: Aeons of uptime. micro-watt consumption. decentralized intelligence. autonomous replication. AI has made intelligence a defining questions of our time. But brains & machines are only a tiny part of the story.
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History doesn’t repeat, but rhymes.
The Epstein Class War Dance Ritual In its final centuries, late Rome used the "Foederati" system - outsourcing border defense to regional "vassals" because it couldn't foot the bill alone. Arrogance stayed high, but the money ran out. The result? The very people hired to protect the gate realized they didn't need the empire, marched inward, and smashed it open. Today, the Epstein class of a strained US under intense domestic debt & internal pressure pushes vassals like Germany & Japan to rearm and handle their own security burdens.
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Spent a few days in the Alps at a private retreat with some leading minds from science & engineering, discussing natural intelligence. AI has made intelligence a defining questions of our time. But brains & machines are only a tiny part of the story. Gave a talk, learned a lot.
#Projects #FFHCI #OSC #Nature #Science #Regenerative #Complexity
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Getting off our oil addiction was never going to be easy, but it's important..
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Vibe Coding Insanity
Vibe coding gives nontechnical people a senior engineer’s confidence in an afternoon. A convincing demo makes the remaining work invisible. Their experiment becomes your responsibility, without your agreement. Now you’re the asshole “slowing things down.”
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How do you keep a secret from a time traveler?
- You don’t hide it in the past, and you don’t bury it in the future. You think it into existence after they leave, so they return to find they’ve already confessed it. Reality resists debugging, but it might be trying to debug you.
- You construct a paradox around the void. You make the secret the very thing that triggers their journey. By the time they arrive to find it, they realize they are the ones who whispered it to you in the first place.
- You don't try to sanitize the timeline. You commit to changing your mind entirely. Acausal memory cannot be unremembered, but a secret can only exist if you are still the person who hid it. Relax, they're waiting for you to tell them.
