Everything is held in delicate balance by cost structures.

When the cost structure changes discontinuously the system can be in a supercritical state.

Invisibly ready for a smashing new alignment that no player has discovered… yet.

But when they do, the whole world changes in an instant.

The changes can be terrible for large swathes of society… or great.

LLMs, like other disruptive general purpose technologies like the printing press, electricity, and the internet, fundamentally change cost structures.