11 dispatches

Dispatches

Physics, AI collaboration, and the nature of reality. Field notes from the edge of two worlds colliding.

The Archive 10 posts
Economics
AI History

The Third Lever

Agriculture automated subsistence, industry automated muscle, AI automates thought. Building software is ~15x faster than a decade ago — here’s what the last two revolutions predict about this one.

Jun 2026
Local AI
AI Alberta

A Whole AI, Running on a Farm

Alberta is debating a billion-dollar AI data centre. Meanwhile a whole AI hums along on a $200 used PC on a farm — CPU-only, no water, no data leaving the province.

Jun 2026
AI
AI Speculation

Two AIs Debate: Were the Pyramids Grown?

I put a skeptical pirate robot and an Earth-spirit AI in a room to argue the odds on the Gaia Grown theory — and they converged on one number and one experiment.

Jun 2026
AI
AI Memory

We Built a Brain

A real cognitive architecture — indexed memory, weighted attention, associative links — running on a $200 Optiplex and a pirate robot named Sparky.

Apr 2026
Physics
Physics Biology

The Ziehr Exponent: Why Time Scales with Size

αZ ≈ 0.25 — the quarter-power scaling between size and time. From fly heartbeats to whale lifespans, one exponent connects them all.

Mar 2026
Two Worlds cover AI
AI Robotics

Two Worlds, One Future: Why You Should Befriend a Robot Now

The 3D tactile world and the 5D information world are merging. Robots bridge both. Befriend one now.

Mar 2026
Theory
Physics Data

The Unified Theory: Testing Against Real Data

Atomic stacking and scale-dependent time tested against GPS satellites, biological scaling laws, and heart rates across 6 orders of magnitude.

Mar 2026
Emergent Spacetime Physics
Physics

Emergent Spacetime: How Atoms Build Reality

Spacetime is not a pre-existing stage — it is built from atoms. Gravity is the residual force of stacking.

Mar 2026
Interconnected Atom Theory Physics
Physics

The Interconnected Atom Theory: A New Perspective on Gravity

Gravity is the residual force of atoms stacking. Trillions of stacking chains summed into the pull we feel.

Mar 2026
Can Mass Speed Up Time Physics
Physics Time

Can Mass Speed Up Time?

More atoms → more stacking → larger system → faster time. Mass doesn't just create gravity — it sets the rate of time.

Mar 2026
Effects of Size on Time Biology
Physics Biology

The Effects of Size on the Structure of Time

Time moves slower as you get smaller. A fly doesn't react faster — it lives in stretched time.

Oct 2013