Rebuttal: Market for high-value compute use cases may be inefficient
danshipper · x · 2026-08-17
Dan Shipper counters Matthew Berman, arguing that for the 'highest bidder' logic to hold, the market for high-value use cases must be efficient. However, cheap projects ignored by those with lots of money often turn out to be extremely valuable.
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