Poison the dictionary, inject the code.

That ultimately happens from entrenched geopolitical situations as well.

However, I think we are entering an age of geopolitical chaos. And that will be a darwinian struggle of functioning governance systems.

When you simply have cartels and monopolies across all sectors of the economy, there is no incentives to hire more people to pursue and compete, and and no avenues for new companies to enter the market and compete.

Instead, these companies simply optimize their costs. Which ultimately will be labor. And then rent extract as much as possible from the economy. And then rent extract as much as possible from the economy

All of that rent extraction goes to the super rich

Which coincides with the rich and elite commanding a greater and greater share of productivity, gains and wealth.

Your comment assumes that there is a healthy, competitive situation in US markets, with a dozen players actively competing

This is not the case. Virtually every segment of the US economy is dominated by cartels or monopolies with little desire to innovate.

We've been in an economic recovery for 20 years now

Well that's the thing, if you're buying an Apple, you are supporting these closed hardware and software systems.

At least PCs are open to a greater degree, despite Microsoft's attempts otherwise.

Claude, please destroy nature.

Claude, please acquire the seedlings and reforest these 100 acres with the right native plants. Follow up for 3 years to ensure atleast an 80% survival rate. Ensure 20% are commercially viable hardwoods to pay for your operational costs.

Claude, please remove all invasives

Claude, please turn this overgrazed now-desert back into a prairie.

We're starting to see some of this trickle through, but an AI that's really really good at recompiling binaries and remapping system calls and graphics calls is imo possible.

An emulation and platform support dream. Run almost anything anywhere.

It'll probably be a dream

Other people are using them.

You are surrounded by people using them.

Therefore, you are subject to the mass surveillance they encode.

And by NOT using them, you mark yourself as dangerous.