[vntok]

Exactly, it wasn't the case then with washing machines and it's not the case now with AI. Your example is pretty relevant!

Today, anyone can run SOTA open-weights models in the comfort of their home for much less than the price of a ~1929 electric washing machine ($150 then or $2,800 today).

[er4hn]

That was something I struggled to understand for AI-2027. They have China nationalize DeepCent so there's only one Chinese lab. I don't understand why OpenBrain doesn't form multiple competing labs because that seems to be what happened IRL before this was written.

[refulgentis]

Because it's an excuse for a psychiatrist to wank about their political hobbyhorses, not an actual work of any effort, other than cavorting in the right circles. (i.e. we see a your question can also be framed as: "why doesn't the geopolitical fantasy masquerading as a serious whitepaper try to imitate real life, like, at all?"