Part 9/14:
Traditional notions of competitive advantage via proprietary data or algorithms are becoming obsolete. The real battle now lies in infrastructure: data centers, chip fabrication fabs, and energy supply lines. China's demonstrated rapid progress underscores this truth—access to GPU hardware and efficient power infrastructure allows rapid innovation, even under restrictions.
The real game involves systemic resilience — creating decentralized, trusted systems using blockchain and reputation management to incentivize good actors and punish malicious ones. The Byzantine generals problem, which concerns trust amid multiple autonomous agents, becomes central when AI agents proliferate.