It makes sense to me that, since evolution is all about survival of the fittest, we have selfishness built-in. There are species that benefit from a collective collaboration, but if a few individuals in a colony abuse the colony’s nature they can win big.
I often wonder if the great filter is about a species shrugging off the selfish side of their survival instincts, and learning to trust in the strength of a colony.
The existence of billionaires suggests that we are not there yet. The good willed among us need to learn intolerance for the selfish to prosper long enough to break through the filter.
Especially in ML too. It’s currently easier to integrate multiple small specialised models than to train a big model for every use case. If I understand correctly, that was one of the main motivations for Anthropic developing the Model Context Protocol, including interacting with LLMs from front-end clients.