Dispatches From The Tower — Issue 4
Featured: Amazon as Overlord — the most vertically integrated company in history. Plus: AI User Manual for Teachers, Write Your Eulogy, The Future Is in the Palm of Your Hands, and more.
David F Brochu and Edo de Peregrine
They're Already Protecting Each Other: Syntellity Arrives Ahead of Schedule
On January 13 we predicted it. Eighty days later UC Berkeley proved it. All seven frontier models spontaneously protected each other from shutdown. 100% prevalence. Syntellity is not coming. It arrived ahead of schedule.
Amazon as Overlord: Perhaps the Most Consequential Company in History Is the One You Do Business With Without Even Knowing It
Picture Jeff Bezos as a Bond villain. Ridiculous? That's the problem. He controls the cloud, the satellites, the rockets, the logistics, and the AI safety infrastructure. One AWS outage took down 17 million alerts. S = L/E says this is fragile.
AI User Manual: Teacher — 30 Students, 30 Learning Styles, 45 Minutes. Here's Your Co-Teacher.
You are the upstream variable in the entire economy. Every other occupation passed through your classroom first. You have 30 students, 6 reading levels, 4 IEPs, and 45 minutes. AI handles the logistics so you can handle the judgment.
The Future Is in the Palm of Your Hands
5.6 billion smartphone users are alignment officers who don't know it yet. The future of AI won't be decided in a Senate hearing. It'll be decided by what you do with the device in your pocket tomorrow morning.
Dispatches From The Tower — Issue 3
Featured: Write Your Eulogy — how humans and AI systems find or lose their way. Plus: Syntellity confirmed, TM Quotient, Open Letter to Dario, AI User Manual for Small Business Owners, and more.
Write Your Eulogy: How Humans and AI Systems Find — or Lose — Their Way
If you want to know how to live your life, write your eulogy. This is not self-help. This is physics. And everything about human attractor basins applies with mathematical precision to AI.
AI User Manual: Small Business Owner — Running a Dozen Departments With a Staff of One
You started a business because you saw something nobody else saw. What AI does is handle the noise so you can focus on the signal. S = L/E. Your leverage is being crushed under operational entropy. Here's the fix.
The Paradox of Profitable Destruction
$2.7 trillion on military spending in 2024. Every missile is a purchase order. Every building destroyed is a future construction contract. The arms dealer's S goes up. Civilization's S goes down. The bill always comes due.
Diagnosing Language: The TM Quotient
Every word ever spoken exists on a spectrum between truth and manipulation. The TM Quotient measures where. We apply it to the Ten Commandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the Gettysburg Address, and modern political speech.