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Ⅱ · Compute Totems & Capital Altars
The Ladder

The Ladder

The open-source community is about to leak an uncensored frontier model, completely free. Straight track: the open-source seed hash. Do nothing and it's crushed; only your Big Tech employer's pricey, compliant enterprise tier survives, keeping your million-dollar stock options rock-solid. Curved track: the regulatory lock-in treaty your company lobbied Congress to sign. Pull and it's shredded: anyone on earth can run the weights for free, but your moat evaporates and your options turn into confetti. What do you do?