Collectively, we still don't get it, do we?
The fact that we have conversations like this, in public, in our podcasts, was unimaginable just 3 years back.
Mavericks and freaks talked such stuff before, today its a norm.
What a wild time to be alive!
Hyper-techno industrialism era is about to arrive 👀
Valar Atomics founder Isaiah Taylor predicts ultra-cheap nuclear energy will transform civilization.
- As factories automate, the cost of producing almost everything will approach the cost of the energy required to make it.
- Energy is the foundation of every improvement in human living standards.
- Every major leap in history, from agriculture to the industrial age, was unlocked by cheaper energy.
- If we can make energy 10× cheaper, and then 10× cheaper again, we could make the cost of producing almost everything approach zero.
- We have to figure out ways to produce cheaper energy.
- AI and robotics will increasingly replace human labor with energy, which could drive the price of physical goods close to zero.
- Ultra-cheap nuclear energy could also make transportation dramatically cheaper, enabling frequent long-distance travel.
In the future, "hyper-techno-industrialism" could provide the massive industrial capacity needed to build cities on and eventually expand across the Solar System.
Adam Brown from Google DeepMind says AI isn't just memorizing answers from the internet.
It is solving problems that didn't exists anywhere.
It's doing actual math and physics now.