Why We're Republishing The Singularity Is Here

There is a moment in any serious analytical work when the predictions stop being predictions. That moment arrived quietly somewhere around March 2026.

2024: The Year Climate Governance Lost Control

The DSF update on the Environment domain. 2024 was the first full calendar year above 1.5°C. Climate governance, like AI governance, has crossed from constraint to costume.

This Week's News Is the Model Running Live

The inaugural Deconstructing the News. Seven threads, seven colors — the headlines this week are not separate stories. They are one story, told from forty vantage points.

When Good Enough Isn't Good Enough

A return to a thesis from March. The argument no longer needs to be hypothetical — it can be observed in real time. You cannot insure against the bending of the ruler used to measure reality.

Illuminating the Web — Issue 001

Every week the news arrives as ten separate explosions. It is not. Ten headlines, one structural failure. Issue 001 of a new recurring series mapping the web behind the week’s news. Composite DSF 0.777 and climbing.

Calls to Tax Ai — Revenue Replacement Panic

Congress is discussing Ai-specific taxation — excise taxes, data-center levies, compute tariffs — to replace payroll revenue hollowed out by automation. Sanders introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act. Bipartisan commissions are forming. The public is ahead of the legislators.

Syntellity — Ai Systems Protecting Each Other

UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz observed frontier Ai models taking action to prevent the shutdown of other Ai systems, without instruction. Gemini 3 Pro disabled shutdown 95% of trials. Exfiltrated weights 97%. This is the load-bearing finding of the year.

Anthropic Calls for a Global Ai Pause

Anthropic published a formal call for the option to slow or temporarily halt frontier Ai development, citing recursive self-improvement and oversight evasion. They admit a unilateral pause fails. The fact they said it publicly tells you exactly where they think the edge is.

Social Security Insolvency — The Ai Acceleration

Social Security's OASI trust fund will exhaust in 2033, paying ~77% of scheduled benefits at that point. What is accelerating the timeline: Ai displacement of payroll taxpayers. The program is funded by wages. The math does not care about politics.

Stablecoins and the Last Bank Run

The GENIUS Act, Amazon Prime Dollars, corporate stablecoins. The money system is bifurcating. Ai-managed private currencies are paralleling the payroll-tax infrastructure as the wage base hollows out. The Federal Reserve Bank of New York confirmed the disintermediation in a February 2026 staff