Markets, incentives, policy, and political economy.
An order-of-magnitude estimate of what it costs to build and serve the claim graph, doing it right. The cost is dominated by LLM inference; a frontier-quality build lands in the high single-digit millions, concentrated in the broad middle tiers and the ingestion firehose rather than the flagship claims.
Compute is the scarce resource behind the claim graph. How to decide which claims get mapped, assessed, and re-assessed — a distributed, market-like approach with cost/value estimation and grantmaker agents.
Young people are forced to finance their lives with debt—fixed obligations that create fragility and force risk-aversion. Businesses solved this with equity. We should be able to do the same: sell a variable share of our future income instead of taking on debt.
Somehow no one has coined this word before. A proposal for a name—and a political philosophy: that the purpose of social norms and government is to align the incentives of free individuals toward pro-social ends.