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@technologytaoist.bsky.social
Pursuing balance, flow, and simplicity. Crafting technology that serves needs, not wants. #TechTao #Tao #Complexity #Quantum #WisdomWorker #ModernElder
Token efficiency is mechanical, how fast & cheap a model outputs text.
Thinking efficiency is cognitive, how much signal that output carries.
A system can burn millions of cheap tokens & still produce low-order thought of little value.
#TechTao #AIeconomics #ThinkingEfficiency #ValueDensity
Thinking efficiency is cognitive, how much signal that output carries.
A system can burn millions of cheap tokens & still produce low-order thought of little value.
#TechTao #AIeconomics #ThinkingEfficiency #ValueDensity
November 3, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Token efficiency is mechanical, how fast & cheap a model outputs text.
Thinking efficiency is cognitive, how much signal that output carries.
A system can burn millions of cheap tokens & still produce low-order thought of little value.
#TechTao #AIeconomics #ThinkingEfficiency #ValueDensity
Thinking efficiency is cognitive, how much signal that output carries.
A system can burn millions of cheap tokens & still produce low-order thought of little value.
#TechTao #AIeconomics #ThinkingEfficiency #ValueDensity
AI can be quantified as follows:
Value Density = Output ÷ (Token × Time)
How much value a system creates per unit of energy and attention.
Big isn’t smart. Efficient is. The next frontier isn’t “more parameters,” it’s more value per joule.
#TechTao #AIeconomics #ValueDensity #EnergyIntelligence
Value Density = Output ÷ (Token × Time)
How much value a system creates per unit of energy and attention.
Big isn’t smart. Efficient is. The next frontier isn’t “more parameters,” it’s more value per joule.
#TechTao #AIeconomics #ValueDensity #EnergyIntelligence
November 3, 2025 at 4:27 AM
AI can be quantified as follows:
Value Density = Output ÷ (Token × Time)
How much value a system creates per unit of energy and attention.
Big isn’t smart. Efficient is. The next frontier isn’t “more parameters,” it’s more value per joule.
#TechTao #AIeconomics #ValueDensity #EnergyIntelligence
Value Density = Output ÷ (Token × Time)
How much value a system creates per unit of energy and attention.
Big isn’t smart. Efficient is. The next frontier isn’t “more parameters,” it’s more value per joule.
#TechTao #AIeconomics #ValueDensity #EnergyIntelligence
“Why is the ocean king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them.” - Lao Tzu
Apple just took the Taoist path. Tim Cook’s confirmation that ChatGPT is only the beginning, with plans to integrate more AI partners over time.
#AppleIntelligence #AI #Ecosystems #TechnologyTao #ContrarianStrategy
Apple just took the Taoist path. Tim Cook’s confirmation that ChatGPT is only the beginning, with plans to integrate more AI partners over time.
#AppleIntelligence #AI #Ecosystems #TechnologyTao #ContrarianStrategy
November 2, 2025 at 10:28 AM
“Why is the ocean king of a hundred streams? Because it lies below them.” - Lao Tzu
Apple just took the Taoist path. Tim Cook’s confirmation that ChatGPT is only the beginning, with plans to integrate more AI partners over time.
#AppleIntelligence #AI #Ecosystems #TechnologyTao #ContrarianStrategy
Apple just took the Taoist path. Tim Cook’s confirmation that ChatGPT is only the beginning, with plans to integrate more AI partners over time.
#AppleIntelligence #AI #Ecosystems #TechnologyTao #ContrarianStrategy
Once an LLM learns mental models, copyright becomes a paradox. It no longer needs to copy, it thinks in patterns once owned by others.
Over time, synthetic data layers atop human work like sediment, and from it, new creations emerge, legally grey, but conceptually novel.
#MentalModel
#Copyright
Over time, synthetic data layers atop human work like sediment, and from it, new creations emerge, legally grey, but conceptually novel.
#MentalModel
#Copyright
October 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Once an LLM learns mental models, copyright becomes a paradox. It no longer needs to copy, it thinks in patterns once owned by others.
Over time, synthetic data layers atop human work like sediment, and from it, new creations emerge, legally grey, but conceptually novel.
#MentalModel
#Copyright
Over time, synthetic data layers atop human work like sediment, and from it, new creations emerge, legally grey, but conceptually novel.
#MentalModel
#Copyright
The unintended consequences of convenience.
Sharing a meal 🥘 at a Restaurant, was as much about face to face social engagement as it was about eating food.
It provided novelty, a certain amount of uncertainty and friction.
Restaurants are #Instagram canvases, instead of places for conversation.
Sharing a meal 🥘 at a Restaurant, was as much about face to face social engagement as it was about eating food.
It provided novelty, a certain amount of uncertainty and friction.
Restaurants are #Instagram canvases, instead of places for conversation.
Food delivery was a convenience, until it became a lifestyle. Now America is a nation of order-inners—and it’s destroying restaurants as we once knew them, @elcush.bsky.social argues:
The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture
Delivery has turned America into a nation of order-inners.
bit.ly
October 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The unintended consequences of convenience.
Sharing a meal 🥘 at a Restaurant, was as much about face to face social engagement as it was about eating food.
It provided novelty, a certain amount of uncertainty and friction.
Restaurants are #Instagram canvases, instead of places for conversation.
Sharing a meal 🥘 at a Restaurant, was as much about face to face social engagement as it was about eating food.
It provided novelty, a certain amount of uncertainty and friction.
Restaurants are #Instagram canvases, instead of places for conversation.
Never say Never.
Dick Tracy’s watch was once a dream in 1946, now it’s a reality 75+ years latter.
Fiction plants the seed. Engineers water it. Culture harvests it.
#TechTao #AI #Future #Innovation #Singularity #Future
Dick Tracy’s watch was once a dream in 1946, now it’s a reality 75+ years latter.
Fiction plants the seed. Engineers water it. Culture harvests it.
#TechTao #AI #Future #Innovation #Singularity #Future
October 23, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Never say Never.
Dick Tracy’s watch was once a dream in 1946, now it’s a reality 75+ years latter.
Fiction plants the seed. Engineers water it. Culture harvests it.
#TechTao #AI #Future #Innovation #Singularity #Future
Dick Tracy’s watch was once a dream in 1946, now it’s a reality 75+ years latter.
Fiction plants the seed. Engineers water it. Culture harvests it.
#TechTao #AI #Future #Innovation #Singularity #Future
To learn, one must first fail. We don’t learn from success as much as we do from failure.
#AI accelerates failure, it lets us explore, discover, and crash faster, virtually and safely. The best leaders fail forward.
#Leadership #AI #Failure #Success
#AI accelerates failure, it lets us explore, discover, and crash faster, virtually and safely. The best leaders fail forward.
#Leadership #AI #Failure #Success
October 23, 2025 at 7:42 AM
To learn, one must first fail. We don’t learn from success as much as we do from failure.
#AI accelerates failure, it lets us explore, discover, and crash faster, virtually and safely. The best leaders fail forward.
#Leadership #AI #Failure #Success
#AI accelerates failure, it lets us explore, discover, and crash faster, virtually and safely. The best leaders fail forward.
#Leadership #AI #Failure #Success
Lao Tzu warned 2,500 years ago:
“The more laws and restrictions, the poorer the people; the more cunning they become.”
There is a fine line, overregulate AI, & you don’t get safety you get smarter circumvention by people with resources.
Systems adapt faster than bureaucracies.
Flow >Force.
#AI
“The more laws and restrictions, the poorer the people; the more cunning they become.”
There is a fine line, overregulate AI, & you don’t get safety you get smarter circumvention by people with resources.
Systems adapt faster than bureaucracies.
Flow >Force.
#AI
October 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Lao Tzu warned 2,500 years ago:
“The more laws and restrictions, the poorer the people; the more cunning they become.”
There is a fine line, overregulate AI, & you don’t get safety you get smarter circumvention by people with resources.
Systems adapt faster than bureaucracies.
Flow >Force.
#AI
“The more laws and restrictions, the poorer the people; the more cunning they become.”
There is a fine line, overregulate AI, & you don’t get safety you get smarter circumvention by people with resources.
Systems adapt faster than bureaucracies.
Flow >Force.
#AI
Up until the mainstream availability of #LLM, the world to most people was mysterious, as to understand & comprehend a topic it took time to develop expertise.
Two things are happening; one a compression of time & two a greater number of people are delving into the unknown.
Knowledge is abundant.
Two things are happening; one a compression of time & two a greater number of people are delving into the unknown.
Knowledge is abundant.
October 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Up until the mainstream availability of #LLM, the world to most people was mysterious, as to understand & comprehend a topic it took time to develop expertise.
Two things are happening; one a compression of time & two a greater number of people are delving into the unknown.
Knowledge is abundant.
Two things are happening; one a compression of time & two a greater number of people are delving into the unknown.
Knowledge is abundant.
Need to redefine how we measure compute in an era of efficiency.
Unlike FLOPS per watt, Compute Spatial Density (CSD) is how compute fits in real space, thermally & electrically stable. CSD captures the full stack: silicon, cooling, memory, networking, power.
#ComputeDensity #AI
#AIInfrastructure
Unlike FLOPS per watt, Compute Spatial Density (CSD) is how compute fits in real space, thermally & electrically stable. CSD captures the full stack: silicon, cooling, memory, networking, power.
#ComputeDensity #AI
#AIInfrastructure
October 22, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Need to redefine how we measure compute in an era of efficiency.
Unlike FLOPS per watt, Compute Spatial Density (CSD) is how compute fits in real space, thermally & electrically stable. CSD captures the full stack: silicon, cooling, memory, networking, power.
#ComputeDensity #AI
#AIInfrastructure
Unlike FLOPS per watt, Compute Spatial Density (CSD) is how compute fits in real space, thermally & electrically stable. CSD captures the full stack: silicon, cooling, memory, networking, power.
#ComputeDensity #AI
#AIInfrastructure
All complex systems, natural, synthetic or hybrid will oscillate towards a state of entropy.
That is least amount of effort, for maximum amount of output.
In the ultimate state of decay, the output has low value, that is why evolution takes place with new inputs.
#AI is no different to #Evolution
That is least amount of effort, for maximum amount of output.
In the ultimate state of decay, the output has low value, that is why evolution takes place with new inputs.
#AI is no different to #Evolution
October 22, 2025 at 2:16 AM
All complex systems, natural, synthetic or hybrid will oscillate towards a state of entropy.
That is least amount of effort, for maximum amount of output.
In the ultimate state of decay, the output has low value, that is why evolution takes place with new inputs.
#AI is no different to #Evolution
That is least amount of effort, for maximum amount of output.
In the ultimate state of decay, the output has low value, that is why evolution takes place with new inputs.
#AI is no different to #Evolution
While everyone focuses on #AI to solve silver bullet problems, they are missing an important trend.
AI is solving a large number of everyday problems, in seconds that previously took hours or days.
It’s the accumulative sum of these everyday problems being solved by #AI that is going unnoticed.
AI is solving a large number of everyday problems, in seconds that previously took hours or days.
It’s the accumulative sum of these everyday problems being solved by #AI that is going unnoticed.
October 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The ongoing shortage of refined rare earths, is going to require a novel approach for resolution.
Urban Mining via more aggressive recycling ♻️ of electronics and batteries 🔋 will be an approach that needs to be taken more seriously by all countries.
#RareEarths #UrbanMining #Recycling #Electronics
Urban Mining via more aggressive recycling ♻️ of electronics and batteries 🔋 will be an approach that needs to be taken more seriously by all countries.
#RareEarths #UrbanMining #Recycling #Electronics
October 19, 2025 at 11:26 PM
The ongoing shortage of refined rare earths, is going to require a novel approach for resolution.
Urban Mining via more aggressive recycling ♻️ of electronics and batteries 🔋 will be an approach that needs to be taken more seriously by all countries.
#RareEarths #UrbanMining #Recycling #Electronics
Urban Mining via more aggressive recycling ♻️ of electronics and batteries 🔋 will be an approach that needs to be taken more seriously by all countries.
#RareEarths #UrbanMining #Recycling #Electronics
We are now in transition phase where a well funded & managed company with above average software developers building large scalable software stacks, can feasible move to a model, where 80% of code is AI generated other 20% is human generated.
The analogy is similar to grass feed, grain finished.
The analogy is similar to grass feed, grain finished.
October 16, 2025 at 11:14 PM
We are now in transition phase where a well funded & managed company with above average software developers building large scalable software stacks, can feasible move to a model, where 80% of code is AI generated other 20% is human generated.
The analogy is similar to grass feed, grain finished.
The analogy is similar to grass feed, grain finished.
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not comprehension.
The human trait of comprehension & application is the strength that is valuable in an age of #AI, #LLM, abundant information and knowledge.
Comprehension + Application = Wisdom
#WisdomWorkers
The human trait of comprehension & application is the strength that is valuable in an age of #AI, #LLM, abundant information and knowledge.
Comprehension + Application = Wisdom
#WisdomWorkers
October 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not comprehension.
The human trait of comprehension & application is the strength that is valuable in an age of #AI, #LLM, abundant information and knowledge.
Comprehension + Application = Wisdom
#WisdomWorkers
The human trait of comprehension & application is the strength that is valuable in an age of #AI, #LLM, abundant information and knowledge.
Comprehension + Application = Wisdom
#WisdomWorkers
Observation:
The leading LLMs are learning a lot about U.S Constitutional Law at the moment.
Insight:
Taking a complex structured text like the U.S Constitution and training an LLM, gives the everyday person, access to a Constitutional Paralegal.
#ConstitutionalLaw #Legal #Paralegal
The leading LLMs are learning a lot about U.S Constitutional Law at the moment.
Insight:
Taking a complex structured text like the U.S Constitution and training an LLM, gives the everyday person, access to a Constitutional Paralegal.
#ConstitutionalLaw #Legal #Paralegal
October 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Observation:
The leading LLMs are learning a lot about U.S Constitutional Law at the moment.
Insight:
Taking a complex structured text like the U.S Constitution and training an LLM, gives the everyday person, access to a Constitutional Paralegal.
#ConstitutionalLaw #Legal #Paralegal
The leading LLMs are learning a lot about U.S Constitutional Law at the moment.
Insight:
Taking a complex structured text like the U.S Constitution and training an LLM, gives the everyday person, access to a Constitutional Paralegal.
#ConstitutionalLaw #Legal #Paralegal
“When technology forgets its purpose, it stops serving and starts seducing. True innovation flows when function leads and form follows in silence.”
#TechTao #FormFunction #Technologist #Tao #Dopamine
#TechTao #FormFunction #Technologist #Tao #Dopamine
October 8, 2025 at 5:53 AM
“When technology forgets its purpose, it stops serving and starts seducing. True innovation flows when function leads and form follows in silence.”
#TechTao #FormFunction #Technologist #Tao #Dopamine
#TechTao #FormFunction #Technologist #Tao #Dopamine
A common paraphrase:
“ #AI will never affect me or the domain I work, it’s too specialized and difficult.”
The same people then slam #AI and #LLM as useless.
One ☝️ simple message:
“Time is not on your side, #AI will impact everyone, everywhere.”
The question should be; when will it impact me?
“ #AI will never affect me or the domain I work, it’s too specialized and difficult.”
The same people then slam #AI and #LLM as useless.
One ☝️ simple message:
“Time is not on your side, #AI will impact everyone, everywhere.”
The question should be; when will it impact me?
October 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
As #EV designs increasingly use #Sled chassis for new vehicles, this combined with automation and robotics will see an 80% reduction in production line labour headcount. Is the #automotive industry preparing for this? Has the reality set in for #Unions?
#EV #Automotive #Production
#EV #Automotive #Production
October 5, 2025 at 4:20 AM
As #EV designs increasingly use #Sled chassis for new vehicles, this combined with automation and robotics will see an 80% reduction in production line labour headcount. Is the #automotive industry preparing for this? Has the reality set in for #Unions?
#EV #Automotive #Production
#EV #Automotive #Production
October 3, 2025 at 7:38 AM
#Saturation: when adoption nears a threshold, core value plateaus & surplus shifts outward into ecosystems & networks.
#Fragmentation when markets or channels splinter, value spreads thin and no single player can dominate.
One limits of growth, the other is about diffusion of attention.
#Strategy
#Fragmentation when markets or channels splinter, value spreads thin and no single player can dominate.
One limits of growth, the other is about diffusion of attention.
#Strategy
September 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
#Saturation: when adoption nears a threshold, core value plateaus & surplus shifts outward into ecosystems & networks.
#Fragmentation when markets or channels splinter, value spreads thin and no single player can dominate.
One limits of growth, the other is about diffusion of attention.
#Strategy
#Fragmentation when markets or channels splinter, value spreads thin and no single player can dominate.
One limits of growth, the other is about diffusion of attention.
#Strategy
Agentic AI is set to take over browsing in 2026. New “agentic browsers” like Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, tools like FillApp & Claude Chrome, auto-research, fill forms, book, & run multi-site workflows from one command. Productivity spikes, privacy rules.
#AI #AgenticAI #Browsers #WebAutomation
#AI #AgenticAI #Browsers #WebAutomation
September 30, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Agentic AI is set to take over browsing in 2026. New “agentic browsers” like Opera Neon, Perplexity Comet, tools like FillApp & Claude Chrome, auto-research, fill forms, book, & run multi-site workflows from one command. Productivity spikes, privacy rules.
#AI #AgenticAI #Browsers #WebAutomation
#AI #AgenticAI #Browsers #WebAutomation
Apple’s Foundation Models: 3B parameters running natively on iOS 26/macOS 26. No cloud latency or data escape. Privacy is enforced at the architectural layer; intelligence & integrity are aligned, this is AI on the Edge.
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
#AppleIntelligence #OnDeviceAI #EdgeAI #TechTao
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
#AppleIntelligence #OnDeviceAI #EdgeAI #TechTao
Apple’s Foundation Models framework unlocks new intelligent app experiences
Developers around the world are able to bring even more intelligent experiences into their apps by tapping into Apple’s Foundation Models framework.
www.apple.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Apple’s Foundation Models: 3B parameters running natively on iOS 26/macOS 26. No cloud latency or data escape. Privacy is enforced at the architectural layer; intelligence & integrity are aligned, this is AI on the Edge.
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
#AppleIntelligence #OnDeviceAI #EdgeAI #TechTao
www.apple.com/newsroom/202...
#AppleIntelligence #OnDeviceAI #EdgeAI #TechTao