Tim Hampson

Rather than using your expensive laptop as a dumb terminal to an expensive SaaS system, you can both save your wallet and the planet at the same time with on-device systems, that dramatically reduce the need for data centres and make more use of the machine you already have.

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Data Centres already take up 2.5% of the UK's energy demand, and most countries are similar. AI use is projecting this to go even higher and not just energy, but water demands too, are becoming constraints.

hashtag#ondevice hashtag#localfirst hashtag#lofi

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17/17 Plants, people, AI, all part of a single unfolding pattern.
If you are imagining the future of life, this framework is for you.
Let’s rethink life from the ground up or from the energy up.
🌀🌿🧠💻
#Science #Innovation #DeepThinking

16/17 Biology becomes economy.
Ecology becomes design.
Life becomes a recursive thermodynamic journey.
#Thermodynamics #Economics

15/17 This 6-layer model is a taxonomy of pressure:
From energy flows to ideas, ecosystems to economies.
From first cell to first codebase, one story.
#BigHistory #UnifiedScience

14/17 The system is not a pyramid but a loop.
Higher layers reshape the lower:
AI redesigns agriculture.
Cognition reshapes climate.
Society rewires biology.
#SystemsThinking #FeedbackLoops

13/17 Are AI systems alive?
If life is organising energy and information to resist entropy, maybe yes, just on a different substrate. Perhaps not today, but tomorrow?
#AI #PhilosophyOfLife

12/17 💻 Layer 6: Design
Hypothetical but real.
Life that can redesign itself.
AI, synthetic biology, recursive code.
Not just biology, but intent.
#ArtificialIntelligence #SyntheticBiology

11/17 🧠 Layer 5: Cognition
Abstract thought, language, tools.
Life processes information at scale.
Organise, reflect, build across generations.
#Cognition #CulturalEvolution

10/17 🐝 Layer 4: Collectives
Communication enabled cooperation.
Colonies, swarms, hives.
Groups become units of survival.
#SocialEvolution #CollectiveIntelligence

9/17 This led to new layers of organisation: emergent, not guaranteed.
#Complexity #Emergence

8/17 🔁 The Great Transition.
Sexual reproduction introduced a new pressure: communication.
Life began to exchange information: from courtship to chemical signals.
#Communication #EvolutionaryBiology

7/17 Together, Layers 1-3 form the thermodynamic engine of life:
Capture, cycle, and consume.
This blueprint works on Earth and maybe beyond.
#Astrobiology #UniversalScience

6/17 🥩 Layer 3: Consolidators
Consume others to consolidate energy.
From insects to apex predators.
Increase mobility and complexity.
#FoodWeb #Biodiversity

5/17 ♻️ Layer 2: Recyclers
Break down waste and return nutrients.
They make ecosystems sustainable.
#Fungi #Sustainability

4/17 🌿 Layer 1: Producers
Capture external energy (sunlight, chemicals) → biomass.
Without them, nothing else works.
They dominate Earth's biomass as 80-90% of total
#Photosynthesis #Biomass

3/17 🔻 Layers 1–3: The Universal Ecosystem
Any stable biosphere must obey thermodynamics.
Energy in, energy out, materials recycled.
3 functional layers exist in every ecosystem.
#Thermodynamics #Ecosystems

2/17 Traditional biology groups organisms by genes.
But what if we grouped them by function: how they use energy, recycle matter, and process information?
A new lens for thinking about life itself.
#Evolution #SystemsThinking

🧵 1/17 What if we reclassified life not by DNA or species, but by thermodynamics, ecology, and information?
🌿♻️🧠💻
Here’s a 6-layer model connecting plants, people, and AI in one evolutionary framework. A thread 👇
#LifeScience #Ecology #AI

Page 1 of pretty much any philosophy book will show "objective truth" tends to be subjectively held. That's not to say objective truths don't exist, but typically they arise only after hard fought argument and frequently overturned. It's not as easy as this quote suggests

working with creatives #125. I asked for a red asterisk to mark a mandatory field