Compute will remain scarce until Dyson swarm is built; scarce AI agent attention will be monetized

Compute will remain scarce until Dyson swarm is built; scarce AI agent attention will be monetized | until we have effectively unbounded compute, we still have scarce resources in the form of comput. And that means scarce AI agent attention. That means that we need some sort of [market for it]

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until we have effectively unbounded compute, we still have scarce resources in the form of comput. And that means scarce AI agent attention. That means that we need some sort of [market for it]

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