Tag: Sandpile Theory
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Chapter 2: Disintermediation and the Capability Lifecycle
Chapter 1 established that AI is a sandpile – capabilities accumulating from thousands of sources, approaching a critical state that no one can predict or control. Disintermediation isn’t just a prediction; it’s baked into the physics of the model. But why? What makes AI inherently resistant to centralized control? And how do individual grains of…
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Chapter 1: The AI Paradox and the Sandpile Solution
The AI landscape today feels like financial markets in 2007 – everyone knows something doesn’t add up, but no one can quite articulate what. We’re living in a world where multiple contradictory realities coexist, and somehow they’re all true at once. In 2009, economist John Mauldin wrote about a concept from physics called “self-organized…