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Every successful tool is a bet on efficiency. A waterwheel grinds more grain per unit effort than a quern. A transistor switches more operations per watt than a vacuum tube. This is civilization’s pattern: do more work with less energy. For ten thousand years, efficiency meant physical work. Intellectual work rode the surplus. Better farming, manufacturing, transport. But the brain itself bottlenecked every intellectual task. Compute changes this. For the first time, we can drive efficiency gains in intellectual work directly. Any repeatable job with measurable output has an efficiency…

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