JA WestenbergFeb 19

We haven't seen the first great AI collapse. We haven't seen a foundation model company make the BlackBerry mistake or the Nokia mistake, or the Roman mistake, or the Ottoman mistake or reach their Bunker-in-Berlin mistake. But we will, and we'll see it multiple times, because these mistakes = features of power concentration.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-empire-always-falls/

The empire always falls

A citizen of Rome in 117 AD, under Emperor Trajan, would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing. The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia: all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity // the Mediterranean itself.

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@Daojoan please, please let this happen soon. Every time I read yet another Twitter or LinkedIn post about how I'm going to be left behind, my brain shrinks by 4%.
Feb 19 at 2:47pmWeb