Humanity is currently like a child playing with fire, possessing godlike technology alongside paleolithic emotions and medieval institutions. This creates an urgent tension between our current systems of competition and the necessity for global cooperation at scale.

We examine a "late-stage diagnosis" of our societal systems, focusing on the transition from human-led prompting to autonomous, self-developing AI agents. While some argue current models struggle with creative quality, the law of accelerating returns suggests that a century’s worth of progress will likely occur within the next decade.

• The definition of intelligence as an entropy-decreasing function that seeks to bring order with minimal waste.
• Why digital intelligence scales through parallel processing while human analog intelligence remains limited to individ ...