The book’s picture of the machine as links in a dependency order, from the wager through science, infrastructure, finance, revenue, sovereignty and power to consent. Each link demands something of the one below, and each can delay, redirect or stop the links above it. The five contests are the five places on it where the binding constraint can sit, and one machine is the claim that its links are one system. The Introduction.
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Dryburgh, Lee S. “Chain, the.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/chain-the (accessed 2026-11-01).
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@misc{dryburgh-chain-the-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Chain, the}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/chain-the},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}