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LLMs may be the immune system response to bureaucratic overload — Intuit turned months of 900-page tax code implementation into hours. https://venturebeat.com/data/intuit-compressed-months-of-tax-code-implementation-into-hours-and-built-a #AI #RegTech #LLMs

danielkhent yesterday

"When the output is free, the cost of selection becomes the premium." AI inverted the scarcity map.

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AI didn't devalue expertise. It inverted the scarcity map. When the output is free, the cost of selection becomes the premium. The expensive part i...

#PostScarcity #AI #Economics

danielkhent 2 days ago

The intelligence premium — the economic value that made human cognitive work worth paying for — is unwinding faster than institutions can adapt.

THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS

A Thought Exercise in Financial History, from the Future

#PostScarcity #AI #Economics

danielkhent 4 days ago

Architecture as code gives AI agents something to grow along, not just walls to work within — structure that directs without containing.

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Architecture as Code to Teach Humans and Agents About Architecture

A funny thing happened on the way to writing our book Architecture as Code—the entire industry shifted. Generally, we write books iteratively—s...

#AgenticAI #SoftwareArchitecture #AI

danielkhent 4 days ago

Language in science isn't neutral — the metaphors we choose determine which ideas are even possible to think.

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Where Physics Meets Poetry: On Language and the Power of Metaphor

When I was 16 years old, my beloved college counselor told me that it was a good thing I wanted to be a physicist because I wasn’t much of a writ...

#Language #Metaphor #Science

danielkhent 5 days ago

Cambridge's new memristor tackles the von Neumann bottleneck — processing where data lives rather than shuttling between memory and processor, with 70% less energy than conventional AI chips.

University of Cambridge

New computer chip material inspired by the human brain could slash AI energy use

Researchers have developed a new kind of nanoelectronic device that could dramatically cut the energy consumed by artificial intelligence hardware ...

#Neuromorphic #AIHardware #EnergyEfficiency

danielkhent 6 days ago

North American data centers consumed nearly 1 trillion liters of water in 2025 — roughly New York City's annual supply — and investors are now demanding Amazon, Microsoft, and Google account for it. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/investors-press-amazon-microsoft-google-water-power-use-us-data-centers-2026-04-06/ #AIWater #DataCenters #ResourceScarcity

danielkhent 1 week ago

Rotating laser vortices emerge spontaneously inside liquid crystal structures — quantum tornadoes that self-organize because the physics demands it. https://phys.org/news/2026-03-physicists-laser-tornado-miniature-synthetic.html #Photonics #QuantumPhysics #Emergence

danielkhent 1 week ago

Salmon have returned to the upper Klamath River for the first time in over 100 years, two years after the largest dam removal in US history.

NOAA

Teams and Technology Trace Klamath River Recovery by Tracking New Salmon Returns

Tribes and agencies join CalTrout to launch combined monitoring program.

#Rewilding #Conservation #Salmon

danielkhent 1 week ago

NIST has demonstrated quantum position verification, using entangled photons to prove physical location rather than just identity. https://www.sciencenews.org/article/quantum-physics-location-security #QuantumPhysics #Cybersecurity #QuantumInternet

danielkhent 1 week ago

The shift AI demands isn't technical — it's psychological: stop planning carefully and start experimenting rapidly, because computation is now cheap enough to think through action rather than before it.

The Abundance Mindset: Embracing AI in a Post-Scarcity Computing World

How to activate the mental switch that separates AI power users from everyone else.

#postscarcity #AI

danielkhent 1 week ago

1920s Cairo drew jazz musicians, dancers, and performers fleeing post-WWI Europe, building one of the era's most unlikely cosmopolitan entertainment scenes.

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How Cairo Became a Cosmopolitan Destination in the 1920s

“Egypt is a country where the Egyptians reign, English rule, and everybody does as he pleases.” So two African American residents of Ezbekiyya...

#1920s #1930s #jazz #Cairo

danielkhent 1 week ago

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things--Rainer Maria Rilke

danielkhent 1 week ago

Post-scarcity and ecopsychology converge on the same question: once survival anxiety is removed, what is the authentic relationship between humans and the living world.

Lorenzo Pieri

A Roadmap to a Post-Scarcity Society

The truly scarce resource is human abilities. Summary A post-scarcity society can be defined as a society in which all the basic needs of the pop...

#PostScarcity #Ecopsychology

danielkhent 2 weeks ago

Strange Mushroom Makes You See Tiny Humans Chilling on Every Surface People need mushrooms to see them? #entheogens