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title: "The Dryburgh Compute Race Scorecard: what it means · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
source: https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/dryburgh-compute-race-scorecard-the
description: "Dryburgh Compute Race Scorecard, the: The book's instrument for judging which of the four futures the record is moving toward."
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# Dryburgh Compute Race Scorecard, the

What does “Dryburgh Compute Race Scorecard” mean?

Dryburgh Compute Race Scorecard, theThe book’s instrument for judging which of the four futures the record is moving toward. Thirty-one indicators, each with a threshold fixed in this edition and a grade for its evidence, each voting for one future or abstaining; the verdict is the plurality of the rows whose evidence is graded A to C. It is read at dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard on the last day of each month. *The Scorecard.*

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

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

## Also discussed in

- Page [The Compute Economy](https://dryburgh.com/)

## Related terms

- [Four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/four-futures)
- [Scorecard, the](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/scorecard-the)

From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.

- [Campuses](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/ledger)
- [Tests](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests)
- [Scorecard](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/scorecard)
- [Data](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/data/releases)
- [Chapter by chapter](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/companion)
- [The record at a glance](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/observatory)
- [The machine](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/machine)
- [One campus, four futures](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/hyperion)
- [Glossary](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary)
- [People](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people)
- [Sources](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/sources)
- [Notes](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes)
- [Where the book was wrong](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/corrections)
- [Where its sources were wrong](https://dryburgh.com/corrections?book=vol1)
- [The Paper](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/paper)
- [Consent](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/consent)
- [Who builds and pays](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties)

*The AI Compute Race: Five Races, One Machine* is a book by Lee S. Dryburgh, the first volume of THE COMPUTE ECONOMY, published by Dryburgh, an imprint of Contestra OÜ, Tallinn, Estonia; its record closes on 8 November 2026.

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