Given Enough Time, Everything Seems Inevitable

Seen from far enough away, AI starts to look less like a sudden invention than the latest stage of a very old side project. Biology had the intelligence gig to itself for a few billion years. That arrangement may be ending.

The Answer Is Scaling Nicely. We’re Still Working on the Question.

AI’s biggest contradiction may be that every outcome points to the same conclusion: build more, faster. This essay looks at how science fiction, founder mythology, competitive pressure and capital have created a closed logic in which both utopia and catastrophe justify ever more compute.