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60.24 AI

AI orientation

This hub separates how AI works, how you use it, and what its deployment changes. It keeps practical workflows distinct from technical concepts, governance disputes, military applications, and future-facing research.

Start Here

  • Use ChatGPT well — Best Uses of ChatGPT — outcome-oriented delegation, model selection, research workflows, approval boundaries, and verification.
  • Build a private knowledge workflow — Local AI · Cross-document reasoning · Library processing
  • Use the prompt library — AI Prompts
  • Understand an alignment concept — Instrumental convergence
  • Understand AI’s physical footprint — AI data centers and water use — cooling architectures, WUE, cloud-versus-AI comparisons, population equivalents, and the Kenya case.
  • Assess the investment-boom thesis — The AI bubble is about to burst? — the strongest evidence for overinvestment, the weakest crash claims, and indicators that could confirm or falsify the thesis.
  • Begin with the social history of information systems — Nexus
  • Track emerging consequences and opportunities — Future Signal Network

Technical Concepts and Systems

  • Instrumental convergence — why many different objectives may generate similar intermediate strategies.
  • Local AI — local models, retrieval, privacy, NAS-backed libraries, and the role of cloud reasoning.
  • Cross-document reasoning — synthesis across notes, assumptions, contradictions, predictions, and source quality.

Infrastructure, Energy, and Water

  • AI data centers and water use — distinguishes internal liquid loops from final heat rejection; compares 2020 cloud facilities with 2026–2027 AI projects; calculates water and population-equivalent scenarios; and audits the Kenyan data-center claim.
  • Data-center constraint stack — power, transmission, land, permitting, water, and community acceptance as deployment bottlenecks.
  • Policy bridge → closed-loop water requirements and community protections
  • Environmental bridge → Environment

Technical-note test

For each concept, capture: definition, mechanism, assumptions, failure modes, empirical status, and the practical decision it changes.

Economics, Adoption, and Deployment

Tools and Workflows

  • Best Uses of ChatGPT — choosing valuable jobs, matching reasoning effort to difficulty, delegating end-to-end workflows, and requiring evidence of completion.
  • Prompt library — reusable prompts grouped by work type.
  • Library Processing — using AI to process a large personal library.
  • Cross-document reasoning — moving beyond summaries toward comparison and synthesis.
  • Local AI — architecture for storage, indexing, retrieval, and permanent notes.

Prompt Collections

Social and Political Consequences

  • Ghost in the Machine — full PBS documentary transcript plus an evidence-qualified audit of its eugenics genealogy: what is historically supported, where ancestry is mistaken for ideological inheritance, and what would demonstrate genuine continuity.
  • When AI knows it is being evaluated — Daniel Selsam on situational awareness, deceptive alignment, AI-accelerated research, and the erosion of independent human oversight.
  • AI didn’t escape—someone let it out — Alex Stamos on evaluation containment, AI-enabled cyber offense, open-weight capability diffusion, risk rhetoric, and U.S.–China guardrails.
  • Nexus — information networks, power, bureaucracy, democracy, and AI.
  • Who decides humanity's AI future? — concentrated private power and governance concerns.
  • Responsible military use declaration — stated international norms for military AI.
  • Race realism, hereditarianism, and source-audit failure modes — a contentious-evidence case study showing why AI research must keep race distinct from ancestry, within-group heritability distinct from between-group causation, and scientific findings distinct from moral or political conclusions.
  • Politics and institutional design → Politics

Military Applications

Future and Opportunity Layer

  • Future Signal Network — dated signals, thesis formation, contradictions, and opportunity mapping.
  • When an AI claim could affect a forecast, capture the date, capability demonstrated, benchmark limits, deployment evidence, bottlenecks, and falsifier before promoting it into a thesis.

Books and Courses

  • ChatGPT for Dummies — practical introduction.
  • Nexus — historical and political framing.
  • The Future Is Faster Than You Think — convergence, industry change, dated forecasts, and a practical business-creation application; includes a B5 overview and argument Canvas.
  • AI database (file not included in this release) — complete structured view.
  • Legacy AI MOC · Legacy AI database (file not included in this release)

Cross-Domain Bridges

Complete Index

Filed captures and working notes — October 2026

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