"An attempted oligopoly on intelligence is the perfect boundary condition for a bottoms up uprising of fully open, fully distributed AI." Same principle as self-custody in Bitcoin... the degree to which custodians abuse the tenets of Bitcoin (self-sovereignty as the best proxy) is the degree to which self-custody flourishes. The *ability* for a system to decentralize when threatened is more important than its degree of decentralization at any given point of time.(Erik Voorhees)