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If intelligence becomes post scarce, the binding constraint migrates rather than disappearing, moving to electricity, semiconductor fabrication, rare earth minerals, cooling water, and the compute infrastructure that converts material inputs into cognitive output.

If intelligence becomes post-scarce, the binding constraints migrate to the physical inputs that sustain it: electricity, semiconductor fabrication, rare-earth minerals, cooling water, and the compute infrastructure that converts these material inputs into cognitive output.

Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026), II.D. The Binding-Constraint Cascade: Electricity, Compute, and the Risk of Scarcity Reorientation, p. 11
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Wulf A. Kaal, The Collapse of Scarcity Economics (2026). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6421319

• follows from constrained optimization theory: relaxing one constraint makes the next constraint binding

mechanismsupport: evidencedfailure: Binding Constraint Cascadefamily: environmental-and-resource-costeconomics

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