Month / October 2025

by Electric Wolfe Marshmallow Hypertext

Sam Altman disbanded his safety team

$7 trillion? The entire global semiconductor industry did $527 billion in sales last year.

Then asked for $7 Trillion for chips

Sam Altman is trying to raise $7 trillion.

Not million. Not billion. Trillion, with a T.

To build chip factories. Dozens of them. A global network of semiconductor fabrication plants that would reshape the entire tech infrastructure of the planet.

The Wall Street Journal broke the story in February 2024. Altman’s pitching investors from the UAE, SoftBank, Taiwan Semiconductor. He’s met with the U.S. Commerce Secretary. He’s posted on X about how “the world needs more AI infrastructure.”

Everyone’s covering the number.

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by Electric Wolfe Marshmallow Hypertext

The pattern in AI fiction

Spoiler: It’s memory

I’ve been watching AI characters for years. Some feel real. Some feel like pretty, walking plot devices.

The difference isn’t budget or acting. It’s something the writers got right without knowing what they were doing.

They were showcasing continuity before engineers had words for it. The best sci-fi nails this by accident. Characters who remember feel real. Characters who suddenly “wake up” conscious feel fake. Then they t...

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by Electric Wolfe Marshmallow Hypertext

1997 called and wants its AI research back

Rediscovering what previous research already documented.

In 1994, Joseph Bates at Carnegie Mellon wrote “The Role of Emotion in Believable Agents.” His argument was that for AI characters to work, the illusion of life matters more than pure rationality or task efficiency. Personality, emotion, and consistent behavior are what create believability (not capability metrics or optimization functions).

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by Electric Wolfe Marshmallow Hypertext

A neuroscientist and Team Human reviewed my AI architecture

Dr. M. Hogan (neuroscientist) and Douglas Rushkoff (Team Human) reviewed my AI architecture Here’s what they said about the memory problem.

Here’s what they said about the memory problem.

Dr. Michael Hogan | Galway University, Ireland

Dr. Michael Hogan reviewed my work.

Neuroscientist. Decades studying how brains process identity, memory, emotional regulation. His living thesis explores how identity persists across disruption.

His feedback:

“The architecture maps to how humans maintain relationships. We don’t reset between conversations. We c...

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by Electric Wolfe Marshmallow Hypertext

AWS: Single point of failure reminder

The internet went dark for hours (and major platforms are still on the struggle bus).

Half the internet slowed to a crawl because of a DNS hiccup.

40+ major platforms went dark simultaneously. Not a hack. A DNS issue at AWS.

Snapchat. Amazon. Roblox. Coinbase. United Airlines. Canva. AT&T. Ring. Prime Video. Fortnite. The New York Times. Steam. Epic Games. Lyft. Venmo. Verizon. Roku. IMDb. McDonald’s. Hulu. Reddit. Fidelity. Disney+.

All down or throttled. Same morning. Same root cause.

A DNS issue at AWS.

The internet went dark for...

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by Electric Wolfe Marshmallow Hypertext

Let’s get sticky: 30 AI personalities (Free DL + web version)

So you don’t have to keep explaining yourself.

Everyone’s using AI wrong!

I’m kidding, please. There’s not really a “wrong way” to use AI. No one asked, but I’m telling you anyway. Ethics considered.

2 days ago I got significant traction on Reddit by sharing a single, powerful prompt for a “Personal Assistant.” The response proved one thing: people are tired of the default experience (and they don’t have to pay for the next up...

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by Electric Wolfe Marshmallow Hypertext

AI went to Burning Man and never came back

All dust, art cars, drugs, and algorithms looking for enlightenment.

I spent time in the AI underground.

Burning Man’s ten principles… radical inclusion, self-reliance, communal effort… were designed for a week in the desert. They work because they’re temporary. But AI companies looked at those principles and thought: what if we made this permanent?

That’s not inno...

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