mccOct 8, 2025

Okay so imagine I take this graph of investment relationships between AI companies, and I separately take the network architecture diagram for the Bluesky "Atmosphere Protocol", and I'm able to show the graphs are isomorphic. What have I just proven

https://social.coop/@eloquence/115340124760759142

Erik Moeller (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image At this rate it's honestly surprising that none of the major #AI players have issued an "AICoin" yet (aside from Altman's aspirational spycoin). Maybe that's the final step after institutional investment dries up. (Graphic from Bloomberg: https://archive.is/Pagn7)

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Show threadJoe Groff (1M Context)
@mcc so much capital has been concentrated into so few hands that our entire economy and society is Conway's-law-ing to match their social graph?
Oct 8, 2025 at 7:23pmWeb
Show threadmccOct 8, 2025
@joe daaamn
Show threadPaul CantrellOct 8, 2025
@joe @mcc
This shitpost has more explanatory power than half the things that have won the Nobel Prize in Economics
Show threadJoe Groff (1M Context)Oct 8, 2025
@inthehands @mcc capitalism: a literal fractal of bad design
Show threadKim ScheinbergOct 8, 2025
@inthehands @joe @mcc
I feel like somewhere in here it ought to be noted that gold is trading above $4000/oz
Show threadGarrett WollmanOct 8, 2025
@inthehands @joe @mcc Excuse me, that's "the Bank of Sweden Prize for Economics in Memory of Alfred Nobel" to you, buster.
Show threadGregory BrownOct 8, 2025

@joe @mcc Mel Conway reached this conclusion over the last couple years and it's exactly that.

https://melconway.com/Home/pdf/UbiquitousConnectivity.pdf

This idea around network capture is essentially his second law at this point, half a century after the first one.