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The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires

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A history of how every great information technology - radio, film, telephony, the internet - cycles from open to closed and back. Karpathy reads it as a warning shot for how LLMs and the AI stack will consolidate.

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Andrej Karpathy

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On the curated Karpathy recommends list; he has discussed its 'Cycle' thesis as a lens for thinking about LLM platforms and centralization.
Stewart Butterfield

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“The book is excellent”

Cited from a tweet by Stewart Butterfield (@stewart).
Brian Armstrong

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“I do agree that all networks tend toward centralization over time”

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