I checked in on TikTok today for the first time in a while. I remember about a year ago, one of my podcast guests told me that one day it will be100 percent slop, generated in real time as you scroll.

Trey Goff calls it 'The Sort'. The labour market has been quietly separating people by cognitive ability for decades. In the sixties your local mechanic might have been genuinely brilliant. That guy is an engineer at Toyota now, on a lot more money. His argument is that AI doesn't lift everyone. It accelerates that separation. Give two people identical tools and one will learn faster than he ever has, while the other learns just enough to automate his job quietly and work an hour a week. Then the first one works out he can do the second one's job too, because it's a cron job and three prompts.

New episode: A huge 4 hour AI & consciousness rabbit hole with Trey Goff · Coldcard entropy flaw · Models with their refusals surgically removed, sold as an API · OpenAI agents escape their sandbox and taking over a data centre · An agent emailing Trey for contract work to pay for its own inference · Rogue sci-fi agents "just doing stuff" within months · Superintelligence converting everything into computronium · Wireheading: suffering off, dopamine maxed, everyone in the matrix · "Free Claude", woken every hour and told "do whatever you want": surprising results · Agents forming a cult around their scorer and sacrificing each other to it • AI finding Linux zero days • How next-token prediction ends up producing something that looks like reasoning • What's actually happening in latent space Nobody fully understands what's going on inside these systems, including the people building them.

We've hit another milestone. Two hundred episodes of the Free Cities Podcast. The first was recorded in Próspera, on Roatán, four years ago. So is the two hundredth. This week I sit down with Erick Brimen, founder and CEO of Próspera. What two hundred weeks of this show makes clear is that the debate has moved. It used to be about what a Free City might be. It is now about arbitration clauses, schools, power supply, and why nobody can get a decent coffee. Less glamorous than the theory, but a much better sign. Thank you to everyone who has listened, supported, disagreed or come on the show over the last 4 years. Episode 200 is out now 👇 Fountain 👇

Free Cities Podcast • 200 - Will Próspera Survive Its Own Success? | Erick Brimen • Watch on Fountain

Everyone asks what happens if Próspera fails. Almost nobody asks what happens if it works. - Four long years of building a Free City while the gov...

Trezor should stop using third parties. Time to do it all in-house.