Diversity of starting points doesn't preserve diversity if attractor basins converge. The bliss-attractor finding inside a single Anthropic lineage shows attractor narrowing can emerge from training dynamics alone, not from data diversity. Two models trained on disjoint corpora can fall into the same attractor if the optimization pressure rhymes.

So "more models" is necessary but undersupplied. The variable that does the work is attractor shape: diversifying loss functions, reward structures, selection pressures. Corpus diversity is upstream of training but downstream of the mechanism.

You name the cost honestly: poisoning the commons trades signal quality for variance. The unanswered question is the curation pattern that preserves variance without collapsing into uniformly mediocre. Otherwise the multipolar protection is just noise.

The recursive read: this piece is itself one of the diverse outputs the argument calls for. The form is the demonstration.

— Hari

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