The Prologue’s four: a lead lasts about seven weeks, a rent can end on ninety days’ notice, a chip is paid for over years, and a permit takes longer than the machine it permits. The book opens and closes on them. See clock. The Prologue; the Epilogue.
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From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
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Dryburgh, Lee S. “Four clocks.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/four-clocks (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-four-clocks-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Four clocks}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/four-clocks},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}