Everyone is building on everything that comes before.

Houses are not built from scratch either. The know-how, power, water, roads, materials…

Yes, and the sum total of those costs (that makes _some_ economic sense) end up on the total house price.

Is the same true for distillation?

	▲	anon373839 18 hours ago \| parent [-]
		If you’re going to do the cost math that way, be prepared to put a price on ~the total sum of all works created by humanity, which the frontier labs appropriated for their models.