Coal is buried energy.

The industrial revolution enabled the explosive liberation of energy accumulated in coal underground over millennia.

↓ scroll to dig

A library is buried information.

The AI revolution is enabling the explosive liberation of all the data accumulated over millennia in books and other forms.

uruk, 3200 bce → yesterday · hundreds of millions of books, pressed into strata

The engine consumed the coal.
The LLM is consuming the information.

tokens burned to train one model, 2024 · 0
barons, class of 1870 · carnegie · rockefeller · vanderbilt
barons, class of 2025 ·

Every engine smokes.

The byproduct of industrialization was pollution and dirt. The byproduct of LLMs consuming information is entropy, hallucination, and slop.

Coal smoke went up.This smoke comes DOWN.

Coal runs out. Knowledge doesn't.
It just gets dirty.

Every model is trained on the ashes of the last.

gen 1gen 2gen 3

London needed a smog that killed thousands to learn how to filter its air.

What will it take this time?

london · 5–9 december 1952

Answers are free now.
Until the ashes settle, quality suffers.

touch the seam. be the filter. · 0% filtered