The future of humanity lies not in continued competition, but in cooperation—specifically, the partnership between the United States and China. These two global powers, historically seen as rivals, hold the potential to lead the world towards a future defined by shared prosperity, peace, and environmental sustainability. The groundwork for this cooperation has already been laid …
In 2024, global military spending reached $2.7 trillion. Solving global homelessness? Estimated at around $28 trillion. At first glance, housing everyone seems far more expensive—until you realize that just five or six years of current military budgets could fund it entirely. This isn’t just about morality. It’s about math, predictability, and progress. AI Makes the …
ChatGPT said: Outlawing curtailment of solar production in Europe and replacing it with time-of-use (TOU) arbitrage would require both regulatory reform and a shift in how the grid and energy markets operate. Here’s a clear and practical breakdown of how that could be done: 🔧 1. Outlawing Curtailment: What That Means Curtailment occurs when solar …
The grand intellectual experiment of imagining Kierkegaard, Sartre, and Camus engaging with the future of Artificial Intelligence initially illuminates their profound skepticism regarding inevitable human flourishing. Yet, a deeper consideration of AI's ultimate capabilities—specifically its power to cross-correlate all human knowledge—reveals a compelling argument for a future where peace and prosperity become not merely aspirational, …
As more and more databases are cross-correlated, the costs of war—both in human lives and the depletion of natural resources—become increasingly clear and undeniable. With the growing ability of AI and data systems to track, analyze, and present the far-reaching consequences of conflict, from loss of life to environmental degradation, the argument against war could …
In the coming decades, as artificial intelligence continues to evolve, it has the potential to transform not only the way we work and communicate, but also how we understand ourselves, our societies, and our relationship to the world around us. AI’s ability to cross-correlate vast databases of information—essentially connecting the dots between diverse fields of …
In contemplating our place within the vast expanse of geological time…
In a world where technological advancements seem to come at an ever-accelerating pace…
Our efforts to municipalize and to right-size Folsom Street remind me of the passion we felt in the 1960s about ending the war. Our absolute certainty about the dangers of the military-industrial complex and the war’s immorality trumped all else. The majority voting bloc on Boulder’s City Council seems to feel just as strongly that …
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) models combine a retrieval component—often a vector‐based search over an external knowledge source—with a generative language model. The basic RAG pipeline is: Query encoding & retrieval Cross-correlation among retrieved contexts Generator conditioning Why cross-correlation matters in RAG Reducing redundancy: When multiple retrieved chunks say the same thing, naive concatenation wastes tokens. Cross-correlation …
