Lady JessicaOct 8, 2025
mcc

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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Oct 8, 2025 at 7:20pmWeb
Show threadHugo MillsOct 8, 2025
@mcc A correlation, not necessarily a causation.
Show threadJoe Groff (1M Context)Oct 8, 2025
@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?
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.

Show threaddamien šŸ„–šŸˆā€ā¬›šŸ§£Oct 8, 2025
@mcc ...wait does ATProto stand for "atmosphere protocol"?? i'm convinced i read it was supposed to be "at (@) protocol" or did they retcon that after the fact
Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodonā„¢Oct 8, 2025
@eramdam @mcc wait so the AT protocol network is called the ā€œATmosphereā€ so it actually stands for the atmospheremosphere
Show threadmccOct 8, 2025
@GroupNebula563 @eramdam we may never know
Show threadFurbland's Very Cool Mastodonā„¢Oct 8, 2025
@mcc @GroupNebula563 @eramdam yo @jay.bsky.team stop your transphobia for a sec and get over here we have a question
Show threadVentingNonsenseOct 8, 2025
@eramdam @mcc authenticated transfer protocol (https://atproto.com/guides/glossary#at-protocol)
DID - AT Protocol

Persistent decentralized identifiers (as used in atproto)

AT Protocol
Show threadVentingNonsenseOct 8, 2025
@eramdam @mcc if this is a joke post and you already knew that then atproto actually means All The Posts Relayed Out To Omelas
Show threadghosttieOct 8, 2025
@vn @mcc @eramdam Adenosine TriPhosphate rotocol
Show threadchell (friend of eggbug)Oct 8, 2025
@eramdam @mcc ActivityTub Protocol
Show threadKranstonOct 8, 2025
@alterae activitytubthumping
Show threadwakest likes your bugs ā‚Oct 8, 2025
@eramdam @mcc I think "the atmosphere" was coined by @shreyan if I am not mistaken... it came much later as a term to mean all the stuff using ATProto after more stuff started popping off using the protocol but not using Bluesky
Show threadJason Petersen (he)Oct 8, 2025
@eramdam @mcc I thought it was a stupid NGE reference
Show threadmccOct 8, 2025
@jason @eramdam Absolute Terror Protocol
Show threadAlex ROct 8, 2025
@mcc @jason @eramdam A Cruel Angelā€™s PDS
Show threadBee O'Problem Oct 8, 2025
@mcc @jason @eramdam [posts geometrically]
Show threadJason Petersen (he)Oct 8, 2025
@mcc @eramdam I mean their docs set it like ā€œAT Protoā€. So itā€™s pretty easy to assume
Show threadAN/CRM-114Oct 8, 2025
@mcc @jason @eramdam AWS Super Solenoid Storage
Show threadMister DaveOct 8, 2025
@mcc if you can solve the halting problem you can also solve the ai bubble and atproto
Show threadJohn-Mark GurneyOct 8, 2025
@mcc
You have one bit of a ZKP. Of what that ZKP is proving, I don't know.
Show threadDJ Tent ModeOct 8, 2025
@mcc @eloquence Ininterpret as meaning the right kind of nerds on the internet can build the exact same thing for orders of magnitude less money than the wrong kind of nerds on the internet.