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Re:The Beginning of Scarcity in AI on Friday April 17, 2026 @09:13AM (#47805568)
The grocery store analogy works if compute is the orange.

But labs arent buying oranges — theyre buying the only orchard on the island, hoping it yields a fruit no ones grown yet. Burning $1B to net $500M isnt "I have too few oranges." Its "Im betting the farm Ill find a new one."

Both can be irrational. Theyre irrational in different ways.