What do the latest generation of AI reasoning models mean for people, institutions, and society? AI reasoning has completely revolutionized capabilities this year, but we're still catching up to the implications of GPT-4. How will we need to adapt to GPT-5? alethios.substack.com/p/anish-tond...

New Zealand's recent regulatory changes and high geothermal capacity help create an exceptionally low-risk environment for AI hyperscaler investment. See also: high data bandwidth, no visa quotas, geopolitical alignment, simple logistics. alethios.substack.com/p/why-new-ze...

Every organisation thinks they have one. Few do. Almost every strategy can be more accurately described as a marketing exercise incapable of guiding action as circumstances change. Change is always hard, and we need to get real about strategy to deliver it. Alethios.substack.com/on-strategy

Hello? (hello, hello, hello) Is there anybody out there? Just heart if you can hear me. Is there anybody home?

Does Midjourney dream of electric sheep? Is AI an existential risk, as some claim? I've been working with an international team of experts and forecasters for the past year or so trying to answer these questions: https://alethios.substack.com/p/is-artificial-intelligence-an-existential

Cities sensors are multiplying exponentially, while our ability to process this data through modern AI grows apace. There's gold in them there hills, but we risk sleepwalking into a tyranny beyond Orwell's wildest dreams. https://alethios.substack.com/p/at-the-dawn-of-the-smart-city-age

TweetBot looking increasingly rusty these days...

The Exile Rides. Midjourney v4.

Taiwan not only supplies 90% of cutting edge chips, but also presents an alternative to the West's regulatory and public sector sclerosis. The things they're doing there should excite anyone that still believes in building a better future. https://alethios.substack.com/p/why-we-need-taiwan

Sundar Pichai announces Google SkyTwitBook. Midjourney v5.

this kind of dense, walkable, mixed-use subgraph is illegal to build in most social networks

Ruth Badger Ginsberg

Small town big dreams food truck

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Steve Jobs Celebrity Chef. Midjourney v5.

Normalize the REPOST 🫡

Biden and Trump share icecream at a rodeo. Midjourney v5.

FLAMING HOT cannabis themed condom ads, Taipei MRT

Hello Kitty themed departure lounge, Taoyuan International Airport (Taipei).

The main effect of cannabis is decreasing your peripheral awareness. This enables a deeper attention on novelty and effective relief of chronic pain. However, it also limits info, which compounds errors in cases of chronic use. https://alethios.substack.com/p/a-critique-of-the-subjective-effects