The substrate transition

— we are somewhere in the middle of the largest transition in cognitive architecture since the printing press, possibly since writing. AI systems now assist in: medical diagnosis, attack planning, drug design, Earth surface analysis, code security, and climate modelling. The transition is not "AI will change things" — it is "AI is already changing things, and the rate of change is accelerating." TikTok's video model generates copyrighted IP; attackers use Claude to plan breaches; researchers use ...