oh man. Touching on too many topics to respond to. Efficiency & surplus, how homogenizing is always done on the terms of what homogenizes are other videos in that same series! At too many levels to name, the habits and tendencies are carved from our previous experiences. Literally any action creates that groove, and ot gets smoother as you repeat. This is where I move into the not-so-metaphor of avalanches and cascades. Any advancement or efficiency is repetitive tacking on of some weight over time. It's not really quantifiable because we'd be able to anticipate the consequences ahead of time. The concerns of LLMs are not so different from the concerns against the offloading of our memory to books. The concern was real (as much as others would like to dismiss), but the specific manifestation could only be hinted at. With each advancement of what we call language technology, we've stacked on a new weight at a slightly different angle, and we're now approaching the critical point before a cascade, but the cascade will happen one way or another because avoiding them at one magnitude inevitably still builds up into a larger one over time. The two manifestations in this case, at varing combined levels, are to become hyper-local insulated communities and/or becoming part of the homegenized herd. This reply is long enough so ill conclude. The cascades are actually a sign of life and evolution, because they fundamentally reconfigure the system. Any pattern by definition is some rigidity, and I'm not pointing toward optimism or hopeless resign, but to synthesize an understanding to point at potential ways forward. My resolutions are not the same others will come up with, and that's the point. Because the varing solutions every individual and community creates is what keeps the system robust.