Libido SciendiField reports, book notes, essays, and deep dives on AI, energy, and complex systems. By Willy Braun.https://libido-sciendi.com/enReading What Is Intelligence? : Where Does A Life Begin?https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-20-what-is-intelligence-where-does-a-life-begin/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-20-what-is-intelligence-where-does-a-life-begin/Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIbiologyphilosophybookscognitionThe 84% Gap: What Climate Investment Actually Requireshttps://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/84pct-gap-climate-investment/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/84pct-gap-climate-investment/Subran and Zimmer's climate ledger: Europe needs EUR 480 billion more per year, and AI capex now competes for the same capital pool.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTenergyclimateAIinvestmentbooksAI, Intimacy, and the Unreciprocating Companionhttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-15-ai-intimacy-unreciprocating-companion/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-15-ai-intimacy-unreciprocating-companion/Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIintimacyphilosophyphenomenologyTurklePerelalignmenttherapyAI, Magic Skin, and Je-ne-sais-quoihttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-14-the-shrinking-skin/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-14-the-shrinking-skin/Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIphilosophyhumanismFrancephenomenologyWhy Nations Fail: What Venice's Rise and Fall Teaches Us About AI Governancehttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-08-why-nations-fail-digest/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-08-why-nations-fail-digest/Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTeconomicsinstitutionsAIbooksstrategyClimate Change May Cost 6x More Than the Nobel-Winning Estimatehttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-06-bilal-climate-economics/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-06-bilal-climate-economics/Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTeconomicsenergystrategyReading What Is Intelligence? : Life Is Computation, and AI as the Next Symbiogenesishttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-06-what-is-life-computational-origins/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-06-what-is-life-computational-origins/Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIbiologycognitionphilosophybooksPower Density: The Spatial Constraints Behind Every Decarbonisation Bethttps://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/power-density-smil/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/power-density-smil/Vaclav Smil argues that land will determine how fast civilisation can decarbonise. A decade later, his framework explains why hyperscalers are buying nuclear plants.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTenergyAIinfrastructurebooksA Greying World, and a Continent Asleep at the Wheelhttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-02-greying-world-europe-asleep/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-04-02-greying-world-europe-asleep/Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMTdemographicsAIdeeptechhealthstrategyFoundation Models in Biology Hit the Noise Floorhttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-31-fm-biology-noise-floor/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-31-fm-biology-noise-floor/Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIdeeptechhealthtechbioLogic, Memory, Power: The Three Bottlenecks to Scaling AI Computehttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-29-three-bottlenecks-ai-compute/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-29-three-bottlenecks-ai-compute/Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIsemiconductorscomputeinfrastructureenergyOn Thinking with Machines: Cognitive Debt, Cognitive Surrender and Symbiogenesishttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-26-cognitive-surrender/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-26-cognitive-surrender/Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIcognitionphilosophysystemsresponsible-AIEnergy and Civilization: The Physical Constraints Behind Every Technology Bethttps://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/energy-civilization-smil/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/energy-civilization-smil/Vaclav Smil reveals why transitions take generations, why welfare saturates at 110 GJ, and why energy enables but never determines.Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTenergyAIinfrastructurebooksBestioles' Confidential Dinner: The Turbo-Chicken and What It Tells Us About Industrial Foodhttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-25-bestioles-turbopoulets/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-25-bestioles-turbopoulets/Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTanimalsfoodagriculturejournalismenvironmentPrix Turgot 2026: Reading the Room at Bercyhttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-23-prix-turgot/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-23-prix-turgot/Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTeconomicsbooksFranceinnovationenergyJournal - 3/20/2026https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-20-ai-drug-discovery/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-20-ai-drug-discovery/Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIhealthdeeptechJournal - 3/18/2026https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-18-molecular-farming/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-18-molecular-farming/Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTdeeptechhealthagricultureAI × Energy: Can We Power the Intelligence Revolution?https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/ai-energy/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/ai-energy/Why the next bottleneck isn’t the model: it’s watts, wires, and who controls the stack.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIenergybooksFour Books, One Synthesis: Can We Power the Intelligence Revolution?https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/four-books-one-synthesis/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/four-books-one-synthesis/Energy, compute and the thermodynamic ceiling of AI scaling.Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIenergybooksThe State of Tech: AI x VC, Q1 2026https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-12-q1-2026-state-of-tech/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-03-12-q1-2026-state-of-tech/Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIVCfrench-techstrategyGoogle AI: Mathematically Wrong, Empirically Righthttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-01-07-google-ai-mathematically-wrong/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2026-01-07-google-ai-mathematically-wrong/Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTAIstrategyLLMs Navigate Knowledge, They Do Not Createhttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-12-01-llms-navigate-knowledge/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-12-01-llms-navigate-knowledge/Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIStartups Are Winning Enterprise AIhttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-11-24-startups-winning-enterprise-ai/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-11-24-startups-winning-enterprise-ai/Mon, 24 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIstrategyIntelligence Without Memory: The Billion-Parameter Bethttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-11-18-intelligence-without-memory/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-11-18-intelligence-without-memory/Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIFrom 0 to €1M, 0 to 10 Clients: The B2B Founder-Led Sales Playbookhttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-11-12-b2b-founder-led-sales/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-11-12-b2b-founder-led-sales/Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTstartupgo-to-marketIntelligence Isn't the Moat Anymore: The New Frontier Is Verificationhttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-11-04-verification-frontier/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-11-04-verification-frontier/Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIstrategyIntelligence Isn't the Moat Anymore: The New Frontier Is Verificationhttps://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/verification-frontier/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/verification-frontier/AI isn't progressing evenly. Jason Wei argues the real question isn't when it changes everything, but which kinds of tasks it conquers first, and why verification, not intelligence, defines the next frontier.Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIstrategyDeployment Metabolism: Mapping Constraints to Strategyhttps://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/deployment-metabolism/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/deployment-metabolism/A framework for diagnosing your five deployment forces and understanding how constraints determine which strategic approaches can work.Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTstrategydeeptechAIThe Deployment Paradox: How AI and Complex Systems Actually Reach Marketshttps://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/deployment-paradox/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/deployment-paradox/You need trust to deploy, but you need deployment to earn trust. How to resolve the circular dependency.Thu, 23 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIdeeptechstrategyDeploymenthttps://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/deployment/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/deployment/How frontier tech earns trust in the field, and a simple map of the constraints that set deployment speed.Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIstrategydeeptechAI Moats Are Different: A Framework for Competitive Advantagehttps://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/ai-moats-framework/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/ai-moats-framework/Why traditional moats fail in AI, and a four-level framework for building defensible positions: technical foundation, product depth, market position, sustainability.Tue, 14 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIstrategyMarket Sizing for Foundershttps://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/market-sizing-for-founders/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/market-sizing-for-founders/A practical framework for sizing markets when you're building something new.Fri, 03 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTstartupstrategyOn Systemic Errors: Probabilistic LLMs at Scalehttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-09-15-on-systemic-errors/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-09-15-on-systemic-errors/Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIsystemsOn Systemic Errors: Probabilistic LLMs at Scalehttps://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/on-systemic-errors/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/on-systemic-errors/When your system is wrong 2% of the time but processes a billion requests.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIsystemsAI as Normal Technology: Investing Beyond the Illusion of Magichttps://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/ai-as-normal-technology/https://libido-sciendi.com/deep-dives/ai-as-normal-technology/General-purpose technologies diffuse slowly and unevenly. AI will follow similar patterns. Value creation depends on when bottlenecks collapse, not benchmark scores.Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTAIVCstrategyDeep Tech: Clearing Up Misconceptionshttps://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-09-10-deep-tech-misconceptions/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-09-10-deep-tech-misconceptions/Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTdeeptechVCstrategyTakeaways from 'How Social Media Shortens Your Life'https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-09-01-social-media-shortens-your-life/https://libido-sciendi.com/journal/2025-09-01-social-media-shortens-your-life/Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMTattentioncognitionsocial-media