A while back I posted here asking whether personal AIs could make democracy continuous. The objection that stuck — u/Roodut 's — wasn't about democracy at all. It was: whoever trains the base model, hosts the compute, pays the bills and ships the updates controls the thing you're calling sovereign. I gave an answer at the time. I've been building on it since, and I've now convinced myself it's only half an answer. Rather than defend it, I'd rather you break it. The answer I gave Near-te...