Competition 'for' vs 'against': why making others compete to partner with you wins
Afinetheorem · x · 2026-09-29
- 'Against' competition drives down your value added, capping the rent you can capture; 'for' competition raises your minimum rent.
- Examples: restaurants compete for your patronage (lowering costs), suppliers compete for your contract, and renters compete for landlords when housing supply is tight.
- Drawing on cooperative game theory, the author argues that getting others to compete for the right to partner with you is often a great strategy.
More from AGI Musings
- AI Will Force Us to Answer Philosophy's Biggest Questions, Says Nabeel Qureshi — nabeelqu · 2026-09-29
- BlackRock report: AI agents could pay for data, APIs and compute with stablecoins — mhdfaran · 2026-09-29
- Compute can't optimize what we haven't learned to measure — demian_ai · 2026-09-29
- Nina Schick: democracy's biggest AI risk is asymmetric capabilities, not superintelligence — NinaDSchick · 2026-09-29
- Anthropic researcher lists three failed predictions on AI progress — dioscuri · 2026-09-29
- Brookings: AI slashes the cost of expertise and redraws the firm's boundary — rvp · 2026-09-29