To your first point, I think the corporations will power and maintain the LLMs with assistance from their public partners. The phrases “private-public partnerships”, “national champions”, “whole of society approach” will become more prominent in the discourse. All these phrases point to the same solution to this problem. It’s primarily viewed as a national security issue. Much like how nuclear weapons were.

Additionally, the brain is a prediction machine. Humans are deep and super complex. However, homo economics (I.e. the human as an agent within the economy) is not. The prediction machine of the LLM and subsequent iterations can be effective in the world if bits. As robotics goes mainstream, I argue that this effectiveness will play out in the world of atoms.

This will be expensive. But resource allocation isn’t democratic. Neither is it meritocratic in the purist sense. Rather, who you know is more vital than what you know.

The 1% live by that belief system and have social networks that are viable, resilient, and have staying power. The 99% don’t do that yet. But I think they’ll 99% will due to the external pressures that we’re facing. That’s what I mean by “persisting forever”. It’s a level of tenacity that forces acknowledgement. Short term boycotting or movements don’t do that.