By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026That bottleneck is: "before we can use a computer to help us do something, we must spend an enormous amount of money on computing power to find statistical relationships between how things work." 1295
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026Both money and expertise are scarce, but they are *unevenly distributed*. Expertise is almost entirely in the hands of people who aren't wealthy. 1365
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/10/2026However much money a billionaire has, they still have to hire people who have the "how to clean a toilet" or the "how to find seams of gold in quartz deposits" expertise. 1282
