See five contests; the chapters say contests, and the Introduction names the fifth race, consent.
Five contests 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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Defined in Prologue — Every Seven Weeks.
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Dryburgh, Lee S. “Five races.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/five-races (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-five-races-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Five races}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/five-races},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}