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   "text": "Micro task platform systems carry significant limitations that hold back the evolution of AI itself, so platform design is a bottleneck on AI progress rather than a peripheral concern.",
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   "text": "Concentrating too much power in any single office of a hierarchy creates a decision making bottleneck that can cripple the organization, so the tree structure that is optimal for transmitting orders downward is also its point of paralysis.",
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   "text": "Because AI progress depends on labeled data from micro task work, the significant limitations of existing micro task platform systems act as a direct constraint on the evolution of AI.",
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