Insight Stream

Updates on breakthroughs, deployments, and stories enriching the landscape of meaningful AI.

Eric Blaettler Sarl, Eric Blaettler

C.S. Peirce, the Forgotten Messiah AI Overlooked

How a penniless nineteenth-century polymath coined the word “token,” invented the logic of machine inference, and specified — a century in advance — what today’s AI systems still lack. In the age of A...

Aug 11, 2026

Eric Blaettler Sarl, Eric Blaettler

The Church of the Stochastic Parrot

The Church of the Stochastic Parrot How the Artificial Intelligence Industry Built a God It Cannot Explain, Miscategorized the Only Two Words in Its Own Name, and Ignored the Prophet Who Warned It in ...

Jul 12, 2026

Eric Blaettler Sarl, Eric Blaettler

The Architecture of the Semantic Zero: Moving AI Beyond the Guessing Engine

There is a scene I can't forget. In February 2023, Google unveiled its long-awaited answer to ChatGPT: an AI assistant called Bard. In the very first public demo, a user asked: "What new discoveries f...

Jun 26, 2026

Eric Blaettler Sarl, Eric Blaettler

How to Falsify Demis Hassabis’s “Einstein Test” — A Structural Paradox in AI Architecture

An LLM trained on a 1911 archive will produce the world's most eloquent Newtonian physicist. It will never produce Einstein. Here is the mathematics of why — and what it means for the future of intell...

Mar 25, 2026

Eric Blaettler Sarl, Eric Blaettler

The Abstraction Fallacy: The Map is Not the Territory

Have we fundamentally misunderstood the basic physics of information itself? In this episode of the Insight Stream, we tackle a question that is currently haunting the tech industry: why do our most a...

Mar 19, 2026

Eric Blaettler Sarl, Eric Blaettler

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: Are We Inventors or Discoverers?

Nobel Prize-winning physicist Eugene Wigner was famously bewildered by what he called the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the natural sciences. Throughout history, mathematicians have d...

Mar 15, 2026

Eric Blaettler Sarl, Eric Blaettler

Holonicracy: Naming the Invisible Operating System of Life

Have you ever experienced the profound astonishment of recognizing an essential truth you’ve been relying on your whole life without ever naming it? This phenomenon, likened to Molière's character who...

Dec 4, 2025

Eric Blaettler Sarl, Eric Blaettler

Unlocking Comprehension: Why the Future of AI is Holonistic and Meaning-Driven

True intelligence begins with comprehension. But what does it really mean for AI to ‘comprehend’? For decades, artificial intelligence has wowed the world with its power to process data, pattern-match...

Nov 24, 2025

Eric Blaettler Sarl, Eric Blaettler

The True Irony of O(1): When Reasoning Is Anything But Constant

There’s a surreal sense of déjà vu in the world of AI these days. We’ve been promised “reasoning models” that, like OpenAI’s latest o1, claim to edge us closer to intelligence. Yet lurking beneath the...

Nov 3, 2025

Eric Blaettler Sarl, Eric Blaettler

When knowing how to bake a cake saves the energy equivalent to four nuclear plants — and reduces CO₂ emissions annually by 10.6 megatons.

As impossible as this sounds, the article I just published on Medium demonstrates it rigorously — with math, not metaphor. As the founder of tokum.ai and architect of the Semiotic Web , I've spe...

Nov 3, 2025