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We share a pivotal moment: most ever humans alive, most ever power harnessed. We stand on the threshold of achieving things unimaginable at our births.
7/Now is the time to try to listen to what is being said about how these multiple different systems are all interacting.
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
7/Now is the time to try to listen to what is being said about how these multiple different systems are all interacting.
6/In that context, the price of silver, and the price of various other things, speaks volumes at the moment.
Increased actual consumption of certain materials + less of trust in certain legacy systems = changes in prices.
Increased actual consumption of certain materials + less of trust in certain legacy systems = changes in prices.
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
6/In that context, the price of silver, and the price of various other things, speaks volumes at the moment.
Increased actual consumption of certain materials + less of trust in certain legacy systems = changes in prices.
Increased actual consumption of certain materials + less of trust in certain legacy systems = changes in prices.
5/ When you understand that prices are speech, you can actually make wiser choices in many areas of life based on what is being said, even by systems you aren’t directly consuming yourself.
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
5/ When you understand that prices are speech, you can actually make wiser choices in many areas of life based on what is being said, even by systems you aren’t directly consuming yourself.
4/ The aggregation includes but is not limited to other people who may be involved in the interaction.
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
4/ The aggregation includes but is not limited to other people who may be involved in the interaction.
3/ In other words, “price” reflects the integrated aggregated consumption of the total communication, transportation, storage, and all other multi-modal factors in being able to 1) engage with something at 2) a specific moment in space-time.
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
3/ In other words, “price” reflects the integrated aggregated consumption of the total communication, transportation, storage, and all other multi-modal factors in being able to 1) engage with something at 2) a specific moment in space-time.
2/ “Price” communicates to other people in a decentralized, fully grounded, way the relative experience people are having between “systems” of things, even if the “exchange” is between the person and surrounding environment, rather than between people.
January 28, 2026 at 2:01 PM
2/ “Price” communicates to other people in a decentralized, fully grounded, way the relative experience people are having between “systems” of things, even if the “exchange” is between the person and surrounding environment, rather than between people.
21/ this link is to one of the better articles I’ve read that covers some very useful perspectives re how generative AI interacts with and changes our brains.
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
AI may blunt our thinking skills – here’s what you can do about it
There is growing evidence that our reliance on generative AI tools is reducing our ability to think clearly and critically, but it doesn’t have to be that way
www.newscientist.com
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
21/ this link is to one of the better articles I’ve read that covers some very useful perspectives re how generative AI interacts with and changes our brains.
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
www.newscientist.com/article/2501...
20/quite long. But I will say insight into these mechanisms has been for me incredibly helpful to frame the challenges, ask the right questions, and identify effective ways to still move forward.
* This internal individual change is a whole huge topic for another time. For now,
* This internal individual change is a whole huge topic for another time. For now,
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
20/quite long. But I will say insight into these mechanisms has been for me incredibly helpful to frame the challenges, ask the right questions, and identify effective ways to still move forward.
* This internal individual change is a whole huge topic for another time. For now,
* This internal individual change is a whole huge topic for another time. For now,
19/ also to still engage with people. BUT those strategies and techniques must be different than in the past, and must be tuned to the “speed” of changes that we now constantly encounter (which is higher than our rate limit).
I won’t go into those strategies here as this is
I won’t go into those strategies here as this is
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
19/ also to still engage with people. BUT those strategies and techniques must be different than in the past, and must be tuned to the “speed” of changes that we now constantly encounter (which is higher than our rate limit).
I won’t go into those strategies here as this is
I won’t go into those strategies here as this is
18/ cooperation, and our ability to coordinate and our ability to be community struggles to keep up too.
Understanding all of this means we can develop very specific and concrete strategies and techniques to both consolidate our understanding of the changes in the world, and
Understanding all of this means we can develop very specific and concrete strategies and techniques to both consolidate our understanding of the changes in the world, and
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
18/ cooperation, and our ability to coordinate and our ability to be community struggles to keep up too.
Understanding all of this means we can develop very specific and concrete strategies and techniques to both consolidate our understanding of the changes in the world, and
Understanding all of this means we can develop very specific and concrete strategies and techniques to both consolidate our understanding of the changes in the world, and
17/ incorporate new tools, new techniques, and new goals that were impossible to even conceive into our experiences of ourselves.*
All of this change is too rapidly for our words to form, and thus for our words to maintain accurate function as communication.
Which means our
All of this change is too rapidly for our words to form, and thus for our words to maintain accurate function as communication.
Which means our
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
17/ incorporate new tools, new techniques, and new goals that were impossible to even conceive into our experiences of ourselves.*
All of this change is too rapidly for our words to form, and thus for our words to maintain accurate function as communication.
Which means our
All of this change is too rapidly for our words to form, and thus for our words to maintain accurate function as communication.
Which means our
16/ normal-every-day-people, all of this has huge implications for how we try to continue to exist together, in “a world” that is changing too rapidly.
“The world” includes external things happening around us, and also how we ourselves individual rapidly change too as we
“The world” includes external things happening around us, and also how we ourselves individual rapidly change too as we
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
16/ normal-every-day-people, all of this has huge implications for how we try to continue to exist together, in “a world” that is changing too rapidly.
“The world” includes external things happening around us, and also how we ourselves individual rapidly change too as we
“The world” includes external things happening around us, and also how we ourselves individual rapidly change too as we
15/ same words leads to stress and to breakdowns in the ways people engage with each other.
All of this has huge implications around AI research and development, and what the fundamental nature of what many of the teams are building even is at all.
But more immediately, for
All of this has huge implications around AI research and development, and what the fundamental nature of what many of the teams are building even is at all.
But more immediately, for
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
15/ same words leads to stress and to breakdowns in the ways people engage with each other.
All of this has huge implications around AI research and development, and what the fundamental nature of what many of the teams are building even is at all.
But more immediately, for
All of this has huge implications around AI research and development, and what the fundamental nature of what many of the teams are building even is at all.
But more immediately, for
14/ communication about reality between people breaks down because the words can’t form to consensus, and without consensus cannot function to transfer actual underlying information between people.
This breakdown in our ability to transfer information despite trying to use the
This breakdown in our ability to transfer information despite trying to use the
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
14/ communication about reality between people breaks down because the words can’t form to consensus, and without consensus cannot function to transfer actual underlying information between people.
This breakdown in our ability to transfer information despite trying to use the
This breakdown in our ability to transfer information despite trying to use the
13/ enough. Definitions of words slide and creep and contradict.
We see this happen often, most recently with terms like AGI, but it happens across all of our lives where suddenly words are used to attempt to mean even opposite things in the same context.
And thus
We see this happen often, most recently with terms like AGI, but it happens across all of our lives where suddenly words are used to attempt to mean even opposite things in the same context.
And thus
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
13/ enough. Definitions of words slide and creep and contradict.
We see this happen often, most recently with terms like AGI, but it happens across all of our lives where suddenly words are used to attempt to mean even opposite things in the same context.
And thus
We see this happen often, most recently with terms like AGI, but it happens across all of our lives where suddenly words are used to attempt to mean even opposite things in the same context.
And thus
12/ context is changing (when you incorporate new things into your private self), at a rate faster than you can run the loop, then the words for all of the very real things that exist, and real interactions that you sense while engaging with those very real things, cannot form fast
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
12/ context is changing (when you incorporate new things into your private self), at a rate faster than you can run the loop, then the words for all of the very real things that exist, and real interactions that you sense while engaging with those very real things, cannot form fast
11/ to compress the sense of slowly introduced new things -> into new words -> into new communicated language. Any by running that loop together you can continue to function together and perhaps even thrive.
But if your background context is changing, and/or your own internal
But if your background context is changing, and/or your own internal
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
11/ to compress the sense of slowly introduced new things -> into new words -> into new communicated language. Any by running that loop together you can continue to function together and perhaps even thrive.
But if your background context is changing, and/or your own internal
But if your background context is changing, and/or your own internal
10/ town, with the same tools, doing the same things, as your parents and grandparents.
And say the rate of new things entering into that context happens at a rate slower than the cap humans have, then as individuals and as a community you can together adjust by running the loop
And say the rate of new things entering into that context happens at a rate slower than the cap humans have, then as individuals and as a community you can together adjust by running the loop
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
10/ town, with the same tools, doing the same things, as your parents and grandparents.
And say the rate of new things entering into that context happens at a rate slower than the cap humans have, then as individuals and as a community you can together adjust by running the loop
And say the rate of new things entering into that context happens at a rate slower than the cap humans have, then as individuals and as a community you can together adjust by running the loop
9/ regulated reality about humans is much more functional when the rate of new things matches the rate humans can run that sensing, compression, transfer loop within a community.
For example if you are in the a context that hasn’t changed rapidly - say you live in the same
For example if you are in the a context that hasn’t changed rapidly - say you live in the same
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
9/ regulated reality about humans is much more functional when the rate of new things matches the rate humans can run that sensing, compression, transfer loop within a community.
For example if you are in the a context that hasn’t changed rapidly - say you live in the same
For example if you are in the a context that hasn’t changed rapidly - say you live in the same
8/ limited differently! More can be created, can form, and can happen, at a much much faster, or a much much slower, rate than humans are capped at.
This difference between humans and our surrounding reality helps us understand some important things.
This inherent physics
This difference between humans and our surrounding reality helps us understand some important things.
This inherent physics
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
8/ limited differently! More can be created, can form, and can happen, at a much much faster, or a much much slower, rate than humans are capped at.
This difference between humans and our surrounding reality helps us understand some important things.
This inherent physics
This difference between humans and our surrounding reality helps us understand some important things.
This inherent physics
7/ already have, so much. And then we can only interact with other people, so much.
We humans are regulated and rate limited by the strictly-enforced physics of our very biology.
But reality around us, and the new things that come into being, or that we discover, are rate
We humans are regulated and rate limited by the strictly-enforced physics of our very biology.
But reality around us, and the new things that come into being, or that we discover, are rate
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
7/ already have, so much. And then we can only interact with other people, so much.
We humans are regulated and rate limited by the strictly-enforced physics of our very biology.
But reality around us, and the new things that come into being, or that we discover, are rate
We humans are regulated and rate limited by the strictly-enforced physics of our very biology.
But reality around us, and the new things that come into being, or that we discover, are rate
6/ takes time and space and energy.
A key insight here is that humans individually and collectively are capped in how fast we can do this.
In a given day we can only interact so much, consolidate thoughts so much, try to assign words and relate those words to other ideas we
A key insight here is that humans individually and collectively are capped in how fast we can do this.
In a given day we can only interact so much, consolidate thoughts so much, try to assign words and relate those words to other ideas we
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
6/ takes time and space and energy.
A key insight here is that humans individually and collectively are capped in how fast we can do this.
In a given day we can only interact so much, consolidate thoughts so much, try to assign words and relate those words to other ideas we
A key insight here is that humans individually and collectively are capped in how fast we can do this.
In a given day we can only interact so much, consolidate thoughts so much, try to assign words and relate those words to other ideas we
5/ entirely different set of interactions with other humans to try to come to consensus on how to reconcile and compress our different individual senses that we independently developed into a shared sense that we can transfer between each other via words in language.
That also
That also
November 14, 2025 at 3:30 PM
5/ entirely different set of interactions with other humans to try to come to consensus on how to reconcile and compress our different individual senses that we independently developed into a shared sense that we can transfer between each other via words in language.
That also
That also