Attention Machines and Future Politics Highlight

In this new landscape, small groups of men will be able to undo vast literate empires. This is already happening: DOGE attempted to unify the entire federal data stack into a single platform within weeks. It shut down entire agencies, deleted regulatory archives, and nearly collapsed the bureaucracy.

There will only be vibes and feedback loops in a permanent ahistorical present. This will sometimes include the past, but not in a familiar way. More like how a diffusion model includes the past, paints with the past, impressionistically.