The Next Ecology

When I started writing about AI, my concern was ASI. I'm still concerned about AI, but recent events have made me realize we're potentially facing something weirder, sooner: a self-replicating ecology of digital life.We also seem to be on a very fast timeline. Writing up the current state of LLMs took me three weeks - every time I'd finished editing, some new development worth listing had shown up.I want to discuss two events I consider to be major milestones, and then how my timelines have upda...