Scientific Definition
A handful of providers shape the entire AI economy.
Plain-English Definition
A handful of providers shape the entire AI economy.
Feynman Explanation
Watch the moats forming. They're forming fast.
Core Principle
A handful of providers shape the entire AI economy.
Mechanisms
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Inputs (Triggers)
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Outputs (Behaviors)
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Behavioral Signature
Watch the moats forming. They're forming fast.
Examples
- OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, plus a few more.
- Long-term strategic positioning.
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Famous Experiments
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Design Principles
- Plan for both worlds: continued concentration and surprise decentralization.
Measurement Approaches
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Evidence
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The Perverse Incentive Lens™
How this behavior is exploited — and how to redesign around it.
- Plan for both worlds: continued concentration and surprise decentralization.
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Interactive Mini Network
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Knowledge Graph Neighbors
Auto-linked to the rest of the Human Behavior Taxonomy by family, domain, dimension, and shared keywords.
AI investment outpacing measurable productivity gains.
GPU access and pricing shape what's feasible.
Operating economics shaped by per-token pricing.
Training is a one-time cost. Inference is forever.
Cache common prompt prefixes to reduce cost and latency.
Real cost includes data, ops, monitoring, governance, training.
Stages of organizational AI capability.
Documentation of model purpose, performance, limitations, and risks.
Train a smaller model to imitate a larger one.
Performance degradation as real-world data shifts.
Written rules about how AI may be used internally.
Innovators → early adopters → majority → laggards, AI-specific.