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The speaker believes compute supply is less elastic, less able to absorb demand shocks, and less substitutable than metal supply.
Dwarkesh Patel · Why smarter AI models could drive up compute prices 10x · 3 Aug 2026
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“I think the supply of compute is much less elastic and much less capable of absorbing large demand shocks and much less capable of being accommodated by using different substitutes than the extraction of different metals is.”Play from 7:33Report a misattribution
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