Have finally done a proper read-through and this is truly an exceptional, lucid description of my biggest worry about the LLMification of everything. "...how could one possibly turn the full breadth and depth of human culture into private capital? This question now has a two-letter answer."
Likely the most important thing I've ever written — if you're an academic and the AI mania unsettles you, here's my best shot at presenting some intellectual tools that might help you articulate why. arxiv.org/abs/2610.27251