Constraints on Wisdom
Why can't the Bazaar speed up? Because wisdom is not information. Information can be downloaded; wisdom must be grown. Developing the norms to handle a super-intelligence takes actual time—time for mistakes, time for lawsuits, time for arguments at dinner tables. This process (Ogburn's "Adaptive Culture") is bound by the speed of human communication and trust-building, which has remained constant for millennia.
The Diffusion S-Curve
While the Cathedral scales exponentially, the Bazaar scales via the Logistic S-Curve (Rogers). It starts slow (Early Adopters/Innovators), accelerates through the Early Majority, and eventually plateaus. This linear-to-logistic pace creates the Wisdom Deficit: the gap between the Cathedral's vertical ascent and the Bazaar's gradual slope. In this gap, we find the chaos of the transition.
Field Notes & Ephemera
Field Note: The Cathedral builds the engine; the Bazaar builds the road. A Ferrari on a dirt path goes no faster than a mule. This is why GDP did not explode in 2024 despite the invention of general-purpose reasoning.