Bitter lesson for free markets: everything needs exponentially more energy and compute
gabriel1 · x · 2026-09-28
Expanding on his Bitter Lesson analogy for free markets, Gabriel argues everything will demand exponentially more energy, compute, infrastructure, and autonomy—and that far more people than assumed work extremely hard under pressure, which is how Musk keeps betting on the right ones.
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