The five places on the chain where the binding constraint can sit, also called the five races: capability, capacity, value, sovereignty and consent, coupled so that any one, binding hard enough, holds back the other four. The Introduction.
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Dryburgh, Lee S. “Five contests.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/five-contests (accessed 2026-11-01).
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@misc{dryburgh-five-contests-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Five contests}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/five-contests},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}