Salvation AI

We explore Quantum networks that connect over thousands of miles, and the sensors, repeaters, and other technology that make it possible.

Let's talk logic gates and quantum programming. Now that we have quantum hardware, we need quantum software.

We describe the delicate balance of Quantum error detection.

Quantum scaling is not without challenges.

One aspect of quantum computing is that you need to keep things cold. Like, colder than space, basically Absolute 0 level perfect cold. Creating this environment is an immense feat of engineering brilliance, but even with the machines, the materials are among the most limited and valuable on Earth.

Let's take off the enclosure and have an upcoming close look at the hardware (via audio).

Let's take a look at the strange world of qubits.

If you've got questions about quantum computers and what that means for your future, we have a long, in depth look at what it is, how it works, what hurdles have yet to be jumped, and what this means for humanity. HALLUCINATION CHECK: The Coffee Bots struggle with the word "Qubit". Due to the number of times they have to say it, it has quickly become a running gag for us (like the ADMIE acronym a...

Talking about Mars is fun and cool and all. But Mars is not the next major step. If anything, it's just a convenient gravity well to place orbital stations, and maybe mine from time to time (mostly atmospherically). To the Belt! That is where humanity will develop the skills, technology, and adaptation that will drive us forward as a system wide species (potentially beyond). As with many short epi...

Ginsberg, Fred Hampton, The Sex Pistols, George Carlin, and so many other fighters against the norms of their day are often celebrated on their own merits. Today we examine their efforts as part of a larger, overarching story of all of these figures pushing society at large, putting their own liberty and safety at risk to demand a better world for the groups they represent and the world around the...

We have another long form, multi-episode class on this, but in case you don't have time, here is a single, simple overview of the science (or anti-science) of Agnotology. If you want to know why everyone seems so stupid these days, it's because there are highly paid specialists doing their best to keep them that way. And before you get too judgemental, think about your own exposure. Everyone is sc...

No two people experience the same internet. This is most evident in an international sense, where your location or national affiliation greatly effects what you are permitted to experience. In this final episode we explore several particularly interesting regional case studies, and offer a final summary of potential interventions. For more conversation, please join our communities on Reddit (r/Aio...

We have exceeded 50% synthetic content threshold. What happens when future AI models are trained on this synthetic output? At what point do the human components suffer their own form of mode collapse?

So is the internet fixable? Well, maybe, but its a big lift and it requires a functioning democratic government. If we want to put a stop to the madness, we are already getting a late start. If we can't regulate tech NOW, we are no longer capable of making decisions based on reality. We will be in someone else's reality from then on. The battle then will simply be a question of which corporate beh...

For the record, we have no beef with Malcolm Gladwell and wish him well. We just hate anecdotes. That said, we need a few real examples of the full machine in action to make sure the map fits the territory.

Tech Lobbyists are paying billions to keep regulations off the books, essentially using their raw cash flow to prevent government from advocating for users. So why are they paying out the nose to keep the internet broken? Because it is easier to take advantage of users in a dark, chaotic, and seemingly incomprehensible system. Oversight and regulation would force responsibility, transparency, and...

To discover solutions for "hallucination", we have to identify the type of error to determine the cause. If you can isolate and eliminate these causes, you can prevent or correct hallucination in real time.

The machine has detectors and responsive mechanics that then tell the algorithms what your deepest preferences are and then change what you see to exploit these habits with relentless precision. Accidentally letting a video play through can cause a permanent shift in the media you will see for the rest of your life.

We have followed information from conception, through the house of mirrors, and onto the screen of your phone. Now we approach the most fragile equipment in the machine: YOUR MIND. No two humans will receive that data the same way. If the best data makes it to a human mind that has been trained to disbelieve a reality it doesn't want to see, no amount of good programming can keep them from assumin...

The Interface layer is how all of this chopped and screwed semantic soup is presented to us. Let's take a look at how the face of information impacts the way we think about it.

We have seen how information goes from the human sources to the AI training pipeline, now we look at the "lossy compression" blender that breaks up all of that knowledge into the semantic soup of global information that LLMs draw from.

Now that the data has been created, uploaded and parsed, we enter the opaque blender of AI compression and ambiguation.

The Aggregation Layer: How information is aggregated and gatekept, and what you are allowed to see.

This is layer 2 of the machine: Capture -How information Get's Digitized. Now we turn our attention to how the information created at the Origin Layer enters the labyrinth of the larger ecosystem.

We examine how the first layer of the information machine originates knowledge. We look at the incentives, limitation, and biases that dictate how knowledge is created.