A lead kept long enough to compound. The wager rests on it, by one of two routes, exclusivity of the model or superiority of the machine around it. The Introduction.
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The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Defined in Chapter 1 — The Stakes.
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- Chapter notes Chapter 1 — The Stakes
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From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Durable asymmetry.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/durable-asymmetry (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-durable-asymmetry-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Durable asymmetry}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/durable-asymmetry},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}