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Capital allocation Who decides where a society's money, time and talent go, how concentrated that decision is, and what gets built because of it.
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2026 Nov 07 Large language models were funded before anyone could say what they were for. That took a dense pool of capital and a few people deciding where it went.
Capital allocation Research labs Technology races Entrepreneurship China United States
Nov 07 A colleague says the breakthroughs come from academia and the state. I think they come from people who have to make things work, and that what they learn spreads.
Capital allocation Entrepreneurship Democratisation History of technology Post-scarcity