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The speaker expects transparency to reduce investment incentives: investors will be less interested in building a trillion-dollar compute cluster if they cannot earn monopoly rents from it.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“And also this will disincentivize further investment,”
“Like investors will be less interested in building a trillion dollar cluster if they won't be able to get the monopoly rents.”Play from 1:16:30Report a misattribution
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