Two accelerations are crossing thresholds at once, and neither will wait for us to be ready

Heat is accumulating in the Earth system at a record and doubling rate; intelligence is accumulating in machines at a pace that ships a new index-leader every few weeks. We cannot contain either in this format, but we can name the thing that makes them one fish: *both are exponential accumulations in substrates the human nervous system did not evolve to perceive directly — joules in the deep ocean, capability in the weights — and both will pass the thresholds that matter before the collective ga ...