The Music Is Still Playing
The AI bubble has specific predecessors: dark fiber, Pets.com, Enron's accounting, CDO tranching. The technology is real. The business models layered on top are familiar.
CIqSi
Carbon intelligence bonds with silicon intelligence. Essays on AI, human-machine collaboration, and what it means to think alongside the tools we build.
The Name
C
Carbon
Organic, biological, embodied
The intelligence of living things — pattern-recognizing, context-sensitive, prone to distraction and wonder. Carbon-based thinking has been running for four billion years. It is strange, inefficient, and difficult to replicate.
Iq
Intelligence
Fictional, bridging, catalytic
The made-up atom in the middle of the molecule. Intelligence is the invented element that lets carbon and silicon form a useful compound instead of sitting apart as separate materials.
Si
Silicon
Digital, scalable, tireless
The substrate of language models, neural networks, and their descendants. Fast, vast, and oddly good at things we thought were uniquely human. Silicon thinking is strange, efficient, and difficult to understand.
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Tokens
An LLM processes "slave" the same way it processes "Tuesday." No cortisol. No dopamine. The charge in a word is entirely a biological phenomenon.
The Heat Sink
Three anaidic shapes — the individual, the corporation, the LLM. Each routes accountability to nowhere. The pattern is old. The word is new.
Anaidic
A new word for an old concept: anaidic. Entities incapable of shame or accountability — individual, institutional, or artificial. Here's how it got named.