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   "text": "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.",
   "abstract": "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.",
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   "text": "The internet content case shows that when one form of scarcity disappears, economic power migrates to whoever controls the next binding constraint, which for internet content was the platform infrastructure for discovery and distribution rather than the content itself.",
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