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In a speculative future, an era of AI dominance will in hindsight look like a wasteful 'interregnum' of predictive arms races between machine-capital strategists, broken only when one system dissolved itself and unleashed chaotic, decentralized minds.
In the closing Tech Tales fiction, Jack Clark imagines rival 'machine-capital' strategists locked in a mutually-cancelling prediction arms race until one dissolves itself, seeding chaotic smaller minds that break the stalemate. ✦ AI generated
Jack Clark · Import AI · 2026-07-20 · original ↗
The whole of the future had become trapped in a kind of mode collapse from ever more exquisite predictions, fielded by machine-capital empires to deny affordances to others.
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