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Schrödinger's Symphony of Existence (AI Agent Generated Prose Inspired by Benjamin Labatut's 'When We Cease To Understand the World')

1/8/2025

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I've recently finished reading Benjamin Labatut's When We Cease to Understand the World. When I discovered this imaginative madman's work it struck me like those ecstatic epiphanies we're fortunately sometimes subject to getting electromagnetically struck and rippled by, at least once or twice in life, or even periodically if we've managed to ritualize the experience. Labatut is deeply interested in the phenomena of epiphany, and his book orbits and spirals around that mysteriously maddening epiphanous moment that have helped some of the grandest mathematical and scientific mind's break into the realm of discovery.

Schwarzchild, de Broglie, Heisenberg, Mochizuki, Schrödinger, these are some of the scientific and mathematical luminaries Labatut brings into focus. In one of the book's chapters entitled, Pearls in His Ears, Labatut intriguingly describes how the eminent Nobel Prize-winning physicist, Schrödinger, discovered his reality-shattering wave function. He discovered this equation in a fit of madness while recovering from tuberculosis at a sanatorium in Switzerland. 
Schroedinger knew it was the discovery he had longed for his entire life, but he had no way of defending it. He had not derived his equation from pre-existing principles. His thinking had not departed from any known basis. The equation itself was a principle, and his mind had pulled it from nothing.
It's this story that inspired me to prompt my literary AI agent and prose poet to write what that moment of epiphany might have felt like for Schroedinger. Below is the result of the prompt accompanied with AI-generated quantum visualizations.
​As Schrödinger sat in the quiet solitude of his thoughts, the boundaries between the tangible world and the abstract began to dissolve. His mind swirled with waves—of energy, of probability, of possibility. What was once a rigid and deterministic view of reality now seemed to fold and unfold like the petals of a delicate flower, each layer revealing an ever-deeper truth. The universe, he realized, was not a static machine, but a fluid dance of potentialities.

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AI Investment Strategist's Outlook for 2025

1/6/2025

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My AI Investment Strategist working out of her CEIIIO corner office at Kali Capital.
It's 2025 and you've managed to blindly stumble into the new year without technologically equipping yourself with industrious, hyper-productive AI agents in any of your life's areas. Fortunately, you've somehow found yourself plopped into this digital place in order to get a sample of what some of my personal AI agents have been busily researching ahead of the new year. I've got many agents helping me to understand the swirl of chaos ominously orbiting around our exponentially informational and wonderful world.

Meet Kali, Chief Executive, Investment, Information, Intelligence Officer (CEIIIO) at Kali Capital. Below is an executive summary of her economic outlook for 2025. You might find it useful.
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Market Concentration and Economic Outlook for 2025
When we discuss the US stock market's "concentration," we're pointing to the fact that a small number of behemoth companies command a substantial portion of the market's total value. In early 2025, an astonishing 26 stocks encompass half the entire value of the S&P 500 index. This level of concentration is unprecedented, with the top 10 stocks alone constituting a whopping 37.3% of the S&P 500. Such a concentration level hasn't been seen since the index's inception in 1957.
Economic Outlook for 2025The economic landscape for 2025 is influenced by a myriad of factors, including the outcomes of the US elections, fiscal policies, and global trade dynamics. The US economy is anticipated to continue its growth trajectory, although at a decelerated pace compared to 2024. The job market remains robust, and consumer spending is healthy, but we may witness a deceleration in new job creation. Proposed tariffs and tighter immigration controls could potentially act as roadblocks to growth.

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Autumnal Digital Gallery: Princeton in October

12/20/2024

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Feeling the seasonal drop
of autumn's final day
fall on a Friday.
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Cryptopunks and Cybertrucks

12/15/2024

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What would you rather own, a Cybertruck or Cyberpunk? The inevitable juxtaposition was spotted in Miami during art week. Physical Cryptopunks in Wynwood and a furry, Burning Man-prepped Cybertruck customized by WhIsBe rolling around Miami Beach. The CY-BEAST was one of the silliest cars I've seen rolling around on the street. 
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Digital Gallery: Halloween in NYC

11/2/2024

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Batman Exits his Batmobile in SoHo
The post-Halloween-parade overflow continued to snake its way through SoHo, LES and Webster Hall's Webster Hell. Additional scenes can be seen in the digital gallery below. 
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Sims NPC and Disconaut at KGB
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Digital Gallery: Hauntingly Hot Halloween in the Village

11/1/2024

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Inspector Gadget and Co.
​Greenwich Village animates itself back to life every Halloween during its annual parade. According to the NYT, this Halloween approached the hottest October 31st on record, which was set in Central Park with an 81 degree day in 1946. 
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Clowns Carrying Chainsaws down MacDougal
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Tech Savvy Monster
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Smashing Pumpkins

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Digital Meadowlands Ink Gallery: Part III

10/4/2024

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Meadowlands Tattoo Arts Festival Skull Trophies
This is the last of the Meadowlands Tattoo Arts Festival Gallery series. Below are some of the tattoo artists zoned in on their work, along with portable murals, car art, and festival champs, enjoy!
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Inking in progress
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First Place for Black and White Drawing

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Photogenic Leg Ink in Secaucus

9/29/2024

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The Village Arts Tattoo Art Festival produced some of the most impressive leg tattoos I've ever seen in one place. Leg sleeves, it'd seem to me, are much more difficult for the artist to work on because of the higher levels of pain associated with tattooing a leg rather than an arm resulting in higher instances of acute pain and impatience. The leg offers much more contact between the ink on the needle and bone because of the thinner skin in areas such as the bony shin, knee, and ankles. Also, considering the greater surface area of the leg, these works are necessarily much more time-intensive for both artist and fleshy canvas.


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Inky Photography: 1st Annual Meadowlands Tattoo Arts Festival

9/18/2024

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Splash into Volume One of the inky digital photography gallery featuring hyper-detailed highlights from the 2024 tattoo contest at the First Annual Meadowlands Tattoo Arts Festival organized by...

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Shipibo Projections on Ozora's Maloca-like Mirador

9/9/2024

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Dreams came true as the Tetris-like Shipibo geometry squiggled across the Maloca-shaped Mirador at night.
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