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title: "Change of landlord: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/change-of-landlord
description: "Change of landlord: What the two exits from the machine's constraints advertised most loudly, the Gulf and orbit, each turn out to be."
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# Change of landlord

What does “Change of landlord” mean?

Change of landlordWhat the two exits from the machine’s constraints advertised most loudly, the Gulf and orbit, each turn out to be. Leaving for either changes who holds the veto, and moves it to where fewer people can say no. See no outside. *Chapter 13.*

From *The AI Compute Race*. [Read the book](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

The book uses this term in a sense of its own.

## Where the book uses it

- [Chapter 13 — A Change of Landlord](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-13)The two proposed escapes from the constraints, the Gulf and orbit, and which constraints each actually removes.

## Where the record uses it

- Dated test [Chapter 13, orbit is a change of landlord, due 31 December 2030](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2030-2)
- Dated test [Chapter 13, orbit is a change of landlord, due 31 December 2030](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2030-3)
- Dated test [Chapter 13, orbit is a change of landlord, due 31 December 2030](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests#2030-4)

## Also discussed in

- Chapter notes [Chapter 13 — A Change of Landlord](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-13)

## Related terms

- [No outside](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/no-outside)
- [Veto](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/veto)
- [Mass is money](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/mass-is-money)
- [Vera Rubin](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/vera-rubin)

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