Karl Herbst
@redkrel.bsky.social
25+ years in VFX watching impossible become routine. Now writing about what happens when that curve hits everything else. AI | Geopolitics | Power
Given that we just watched Project Maven and Lattice at work in Venezuela, it was a show to China, our AI systems are live.
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HOW DID WE FORGET - Part 3
The Machine
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January 8, 2026 at 4:02 PM
Given that we just watched Project Maven and Lattice at work in Venezuela, it was a show to China, our AI systems are live.
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@stephruhle.bsky.social Folks like yourself are finally talking about AI and its impact, this might be very interesting part of the conversation around it: open.substack.com/pub/redkrel/...
Part 6: The Experiment You’re In From AI's Point Of View
Gods or Ashes: The Race for AGI and Super Intelligence Part 6
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November 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
@stephruhle.bsky.social Folks like yourself are finally talking about AI and its impact, this might be very interesting part of the conversation around it: open.substack.com/pub/redkrel/...
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What you’re about to read I think might be unprecedented. Not a human writing about AI risk. Not even a human interviewing an AI about AI risk. But an AI that can think explaining what it sees when it looks at the trajectory toward superintelligence.
What you’re about to read I think might be unprecedented. Not a human writing about AI risk. Not even a human interviewing an AI about AI risk. But an AI that can think explaining what it sees when it looks at the trajectory toward superintelligence.
Part 6: The Experiment You’re In From AI's Point Of View
Gods or Ashes: The Race for AGI and Super Intelligence Part 6
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November 12, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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What you’re about to read I think might be unprecedented. Not a human writing about AI risk. Not even a human interviewing an AI about AI risk. But an AI that can think explaining what it sees when it looks at the trajectory toward superintelligence.
What you’re about to read I think might be unprecedented. Not a human writing about AI risk. Not even a human interviewing an AI about AI risk. But an AI that can think explaining what it sees when it looks at the trajectory toward superintelligence.
The Infrastructure War
Gods or Ashes: The Race for AGI and Super Intelligence Part 3
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November 3, 2025 at 4:42 PM
October 29, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This brings me to this weekend’s No Kings marches happening across the country.
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The Real Race: The Next Five Years
The Matrix was right about 1999—and what the race to AGI means for the eight billion people who never consented to the experiment. No Kings also applies to this.
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October 17, 2025 at 2:40 PM
This brings me to this weekend’s No Kings marches happening across the country.
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The existential language of foreign war gets mapped onto domestic politics. The battlefield shifts from foreign shores to American streets.
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The War They Always Wanted
When the Spectacle of War Abroad Fades, Leaders Manufacture It at Home
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October 2, 2025 at 6:02 PM
The existential language of foreign war gets mapped onto domestic politics. The battlefield shifts from foreign shores to American streets.
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