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spyckie2yesterday at 11:48 PM2 repliesview on HN

It’s important that none of these entities can collude to price fix. Having China be the competitor ensures that.

Basic microeconomics is still the easiest way to understand token economies. How is it not a competitive market (where profits go to zero?).

Anything A or O does to keep more margin, any competitor can copy or choose to undercut, and undercutting has the benefit of collecting training data. So what is going to stop gross profit of tokens going to zero except for collusion/price fixing?


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intrasightyesterday at 11:51 PM

You left out the one that will: federal government industrial policy

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HDThoreaunyesterday at 11:55 PM

Considering conditions within a single market is still microeconomics, I agree though its tough to see where firms will get market power from so profit will tend toward zero. I thought the same about GPUs though and nvidia still doesnt seem to have any real datacenter competition in sight.

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