# Market Allocation Can Send Compute to Persuasion Instead of Public Health by Dave Blundin > Willingness to pay is not the same thing as public value. A persuasive consumer system can absorb scarce GPUs because selling products is lucrative while disease research goes unfunded, which is why governments and universities must participate in deciding who gets compute and why. > **— Adapted from Dave Blundin**, *Moonshots, October 7, 2026* ## Sources and Context - **Recording and precise locator:** [1:11:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRdb8UmPnh0&t=4302s) — *The Fight Over Claude's Consciousness, AI's 1942 Moment, & Why Altman Says "Accept Some Bad Things"*, Moonshots, October 7, 2026. - **Exact reconciled source excerpt:** “There is a chance that MetaMuse is so compelling and convincing that it ends up being the total sales tool for all consumer spending, and it eats up every GPU that could be curing diabetes and uses it to sell underwear or jeans on the internet to teenagers. Governments and universities are a really good counterbalance to that possible outcome.” - **Editorial status:** The poster is explicitly labeled **Adapted from** because it consolidates spoken context into a self-contained proposition. It must not be represented as verbatim speech. Numerical claims, forecasts, legal interpretations, and claims about current organizations remain the speaker’s assertions unless separately verified. - **Reconciled source dossier:** [[research/All Things Superintelligence Research - The Coming Manhattan Project - Moonshots|All Things Superintelligence Research — The Coming Manhattan Project — Moonshots]] preserves broadcast order, speaker attribution, timing, and the source-fidelity boundary. - **Preparation ledger:** [[research/All Things Superintelligence Research - The Coming Manhattan Project - Moonshots - Reminder and Wiki Preparation|Reminder and Wiki Preparation]] records candidate 20, its mechanism, evidence posture, and misreading risks. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Simple Reminders|Simple Reminders]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Wiki source hub:** [[wiki/Moonshots - The Coming Manhattan Project|Moonshots — The Coming Manhattan Project]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Dave Blundin|Dave Blundin]] - [[wiki/Compute Allocation|Compute Allocation]] - [[wiki/AI for Science|AI for Science]] - [[wiki/AI Governance|AI Governance]] ## Share on Social Media ``` Willingness to pay is not the same thing as public value. A persuasive consumer system can absorb scarce GPUs because selling products is lucrative while disease research goes unfunded, which is why governments and universities must participate in deciding who gets compute and why. — Adapted from Dave Blundin, Moonshots, October 7, 2026 https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-dave-blundin-market-allocation-can-send-compute-to-persuasion-instead-of-public-health ```