How the 1% Will Own Compute (and What It Means for You)

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This is the trajectory that we're on. We're trying to bring it with us everywhere we go, which will be enormously valuable and and creepy and all sorts of stuff. You're gonna need 100 times the energy, and that's exactly the bottleneck we're trying to sell for with these space data centers. We are gonna have the polarization of compute in our society. The 1% aren't going to be able to just afford a G650.

They're going to be able to afford $10 million data center for themselves. It's just going to be exhausting to go to a company, have the company study your work, have AI reinforcement learn and automate it, and then get laid off again. The capitalist system is such because it incentivizes people to do great labor. We don't create a system where AI just actually makes all the money and we don't know how to make a smooth transition.

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