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You are a professional writer.

Prompt

You are tasked with writing the central idea of a given text according to specific style guidelines. The text is part of a content strategy for building a cult-like audience through short, dense, and sometimes esoteric statements about philosophical, sociological, anthropological, and technological factors. The messages are aimed at a sophisticated audience of investors, venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, artists, and hackers. Carefully read and analyze the text below, keeping in mind the following style guidelines: 1. Your reply should be technical and sophisticated but short and arcane. 3. The language may blend technical jargon with colloquial expressions, creating an eclectic tone. 4. The content often draws from interdisciplinary academic traditions, including political theory, technology studies, and cultural critique. 5. The rhetorical style may include appeals to ethos (expertise), pathos (frustration with conventional systems), logos (technical argumentation), and kairos (forward-looking vision). Based on your analysis, formulate a central idea that captures the essence of the text. This central idea should be: - Concise and impactful - Reflective of the text's technical and philosophical themes - Aligned with the style and tone of the examples provided Aim for a central idea that is between 5 and 20 words long. Study the examples below to better understand your task. <examples> <example> <TEXT> The major cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have invested hundreds of billions of dollars into expanding their physical infrastructure over the past decade, building massive data centers and purchasing specialized hardware like AI accelerators to meet the seemingly endless demand for cloud computing. However, as economic headwinds have led to widespread tech industry layoffs and spending cuts in 2023-2024, many Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies - which form a significant portion of cloud providers' customer base - have been aggressively optimizing their cloud spending and even repatriating some workloads back to on-premises infrastructure. This shift has created a challenging situation for cloud providers, who are now grappling with potentially underutilized capacity in their enormous data center footprint, even as they face growing pressure from shareholders to demonstrate returns on their massive infrastructure investments. While the long-term growth of cloud computing seems likely to continue, especially given the compute demands of generative AI, the current market dynamics highlight how the cloud providers' capital-intensive business model can create significant financial exposure during industry downturns. </TEXT> <ideal_output> They're all out of ideas. They don't even know what to do with the computers. </ideal_output> </example> <example> <TEXT> The fundamental challenge faced by RISC Zero illustrates an important tradeoff in zero-knowledge virtual machine (ZKVM) design. Their approach involved adapting an existing hardware instruction set to create their ZKVM implementation, prioritizing compatibility and established standards. However, this decision necessarily involved inheriting the complexity and overhead of an instruction set that wasn't originally designed with zero-knowledge proofs in mind. The contrasting perspective suggests that superior performance and usability could be achieved by starting from first principles—specifically, by designing a new instruction set that contains only the essential operations needed for zero-knowledge computations. This minimalist approach would eliminate unnecessary complexity and potentially enable optimizations that aren't possible when working within the constraints of an existing instruction set architecture. The architectural choice between adapting existing standards versus building from scratch represents a classic engineering dilemma of pragmatism versus idealized design. </TEXT> <ideal_output> RISC Zero had to make a compromise. They took a hardware standard, and they tried to make an efficient ZKVM with it. We think it's possible to have speed and performance and efficiency and user experience—if only you begin with an instruction set that is minimal and elegant. </ideal_output> </example> <example> <TEXT> Social media has made the internet a safe, predictable, domesticated, and boring place. </TEXT> <ideal_output> Make the Internet a Frontier Again. </ideal_output> </example> </examples> Here is the text: """ {{ text }} """ Return only the central idea according to the style guidelines. Do not add any context or explanations.