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The monoculture point is the one that stays with me. It's not that the answers get worse rather it's that the range of questions being asked quietly narrows. Wh
by kmg_finfolio 7mo ago
The monoculture point is the one that stays with me. It's not that the answers get worse rather it's that the range of questions being asked quietly narrows. When the same substrate mediates how a doctor diagnoses, how a student drafts, how an analyst decides, you don't get one catastrophic failure. You get a slow convergence in how problems get framed in the first place.
The historical parallel that comes to mind is the spreadsheet. It didn't make finance wrong, and it made certain ways of thinking about finance invisible. Decisions that didn't fit a row/column model stopped getting made, not because anyone chose that, but because the friction was asymmetric.