Taonga in the Latent Space
Yann LeCun left Meta to bet a billion-dollar company that today’s language models cannot reason or plan because they lack a model of the world — and that the next architecture will not be built on them. He means the physical world. This essay argues the first world worth modelling is a community: the Village already holds the signed record of a community’s state and the gate that checks an action before it runs, and lacks only the picture in between — the one that lets an AI foresee what its action would do to the people. A community-state model, with the community as kaitiaki of the model of its own world, taonga and consent as first-class factors, federated rather than concentrated. Proposed as the next architectural step, not yet shipped.