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Garbage and the Tsunami

Because AI is dangerous, tools cannot be left only to the most powerful.

Garbage and the Tsunami answers the core contradiction: if AI can harm ordinary people, why build AI tools at all?

The answer is not that we are fearless. It is that fear alone does nothing. The wave will not stop because we comment from the beach.

We build rough flotation gear: imperfect, slow, but better than empty hands.

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  • BookBedrock · stable

    Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks

    Yuval Noah Harari (2024)

    Harari's 2024 book places AI inside the long history of how information networks shape societies — a frame for seeing the wave as another information revolution, not an isolated event.

    Last checked 2026-05-30

  • PaperBedrock · stable

    Attention Is All You Need

    Vaswani et al.

    The 2017 paper that introduced the Transformer — the technical headwater of nearly every large language model behind the wave.

    Last checked 2026-05-30

  • NewsBedrock · stable

    ‘The Godfather of A.I.’ Leaves Google and Warns of Danger Ahead

    The New York Times

    Hinton left Google in 2023 so he could speak freely about AI's risks — a builder stepping back to tell the truth is itself a story about exits and trade-offs.

    Last checked 2026-05-30

  • ReferenceBedrock · stable

    The Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 — Hopfield & Hinton

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

    The 2024 physics Nobel went to Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for the foundations of neural-network machine learning — the establishment itself marking the wave as real, not hype.

    Last checked 2026-05-30

  • LawLiving water · still moving

    Artificial Intelligence Act — Regulation (EU) 2024/1689

    European Union (in force 2024-08-01)

    The first comprehensive AI law, in force since Aug 2024 but phasing in past 2026. The rules are still landing — living water that needs re-checking.

    Last checked 2026-05-30

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