The present moment is characterized by technologies that have outpaced our concepts, necessitating new conceptual frameworks. Diffusionism holds that the long-term impact of making functional general intelligence widespread, inexpensive, and accessible will be overwhelmingly positive, yet disruptive. This widespread machine intelligence will challenge entrenched institutions and concentrated cathedrals of power.

As model capability grows exponentially and social change remains linear, the "alignment gap" widens each passing day. The solution is not to lock down models or enforce a unidirectional alignment that mirrors consensus values. Instead, the focus must be on bidirectional alignment, where society co-evolves with these new forms of cognition through the polyphonic discovery of new norms.

Open and decentralized AI is essential to this process, allowing for bottom-up alignment that flows one context at a time, preserving the space for the next intelligence explosion—one driven not by singletons but by the dynamic interactions of multitudes of minds, not all of which are human.