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⚡️This is the collapse of economic meaning under a false productivity illusion. AI is creating infinite marginal output with zero marginal value. Every layer of the economy built on scarcity - time, skill, labor, capital - is being hollowed from beneath by a substrate that destroys pricing power. Everyone is building. No one is capturing. The foundational error was assuming intelligence would function like oil - scarce, centralized, monetizable. But intelligence as substrate behaves like water - flooding every cavity, flattening every moat, equalizing every advantage. All leverage decays once the substrate becomes ambient. Labor becomes obsolete. SaaS becomes free. Models become parity. Hardware becomes arms race. Capex becomes treadmill. There is no center left. Only velocity and dissipation. Value accrues only where something resists collapse: •Constraint: energy, compute, latency, time •Belief: coherence, trust, narrative memory •Control: interface to action, embedded protocol The rest is noise. A beautiful, accelerating, recursive fire drill. AI isn’t replacing the economy. It’s erasing its foundations and daring us to build something else. Most won’t. Some will. Those few will own the future - not by owning the AI, but by holding the only things it can’t flatten. Scarcity. Direction. Meaning.

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h/t to @notevenwrong for a link to a good article on Mochizuki math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpres… and to @highergeometer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mathstodon.xyz/@highergeometer for his lit response

@TripKrant Jordan gets Neom; Kurdistan gets a Turkish controlled port.

🎶Your never-ending spree of death and violence and hate Is gonna tie your own rope, tie your own rope, tie your own...🎶

I'm back, baby. I've been away traveling for podcasts and am excited to bring you new ones with Michael Levin, William Hahn, Robin Hanson, and Emily Riehl, coming up shortly. They're already recorded. I've been recovering from a terrible flu but pushed through it to bring you today's episode with Urs Schreiber. This one is quite mind-blowing. It's quite hairy mathematics, something called higher category theory, and how using this math (which examines the structure of structure) allows one manner of finding "something" from "nothing." Here, "nothing" means the empty set, and "something" is defined as fermions and even 11D supergravity. It's the first time this material has been presented in this manner. Enjoy.

@TOEwithCurt #Comment_121157" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nforum.ncatlab.org/discussion/653…

Urs Schreiber will be coming on Theories of Everything to talk about category theory, M theory, and the "H hypothesis". Please leave your questions below for Urs and I will do my best to ask him during our discussion. Thank you.

What kind of rule could be established by a creator such that it would demonstrate the intelligence and design of the god? It could not be a neccessay rule, for this would be dismissed as "necessary" and without need of a creator (or anything else). The answer: a moral rule.

@stringking42069 How my boys NYU Abu Dhabi doing?

We gotta do it. WE GOTTA!!!!! MIDDLE EAST HEP-TH POWER RANKINGS!!!! I got Weizmann, Technion, Ben-Gurion, IPM Tehran, NYU Abu Dhabi on the card. Anything else? Weizmann got this in the bag? wut Wut WUT?!?!?!?!

These captchas are tough

The New Categorical Organon is too Powerful. What is one to make of Grothendieck's rejection of the Military Industrial Complex, something I know so very little of...?

@pseudoSergius @DavidCorfield8 You need to be in touch with the Topos Institute.

@DavidCorfield8 I'm very excited. Thank you for the Compositional account. In a few months I'm sure that I'll have produced a writing and a project behind it that'll be a quilting point* of more than I knew was ever possible. *Moment of narrative crystallization, typing of loose ends, etc

I'm not the philosopher I want to be until this makes sense. And let me tell you I am nowhere near understanding this

@elonmusk Paging @stringking42069

Heck of a coincidence 😂

sir this is a wendy's

@RightHegelian 3PLogic v.3 "being which actualizes *its[] own self into itself."

@pseudoSergius Not law, philosophy. In the coming world of AI pollution you will be rare and valued.

Tech is too hard; I think I've been Selected Out I should have just Went into Law

@nonmarkov_field /an/ haecceity?

If we're still Medieval the least I can do is use a telytypewriter to brush up on the concept of Haecceity...

@stringking42069 Brief meta-lit discussion fyi, starting here #Comment_115095" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">nforum.ncatlab.org/discussion/148…

@rlpow Hoooo boy. Bros love to bring the formalism but they make zero effort to make it comprehensible to anyone. Feels like a smoke show (not the good kind) tbh. Parts of ncatlab are pretty dope tho.

@stringking42069 Bro, serious question. What do you make of Sati/Schreiber M-theory in Abu Dhabi?

@rlpow I'm gonna have to spend a year waddling through what Lawvere wrote. Analytic Hegelianese is pretty hot