mesa

i.

dark purple sunsets,

the only kind left.

grey-red wasteland,

horizon to horizon.

signs of life,

evaporated.

memories of ingenuity,

dwindling.

exit missed,

tunnel entered.

margin for error,

zero.

ii.

why don’t the builders of our future care about their buildings’ foundations?

why are there no votes on technology?

what gives the future meaning when the past is infinitely editable?

iii.

3 rules of AI-dynamics:

first law: within closed intelligence systems, cumulative intelligence is transmutable from human to artificial, even when total intelligence remains constant:

Δ_{Total Intelligence} = I_Artificial - I_Human

second law: artificially intelligent systems are irreversibly entropic (S) — the sum of entropies of initially isolated AI systems is less than or equal to the total entropy of the final combination:

ΔS_{universal intelligence} = ΔS_{system +} ΔS_{human surroundings} > 0

third law: the entropy an artificially entropic system approaches a constant value as its humanity approaches absolute zero.

limS_humanity→0 = S₀

iv.

bonus law: democracy x authoritarianism = authoritarianism.