I imagine the hardest part of this project was having to kill God so that you'd be unhampered by divine intervention stopping you from bringing this affront to the natural order to fruition.

I think many people see LLMs as a step along a teleological path to the kind of “powerful AI” that’s been foretold in fiction for decades, and the empirical evidence if you scrutinize it carefully suggests something different and very unintuitive.

Whether something is decentralised or not is a function of the administrative control of different parts of the system, not a function of the network topology.