So, Sam Altman wants as much money as he can get - the number he chose to give was $7 trillion - to build more chips for AI as fast as possible. Including in places like the UAE. Thus undermining his argument that OpenAI is helping with AI safety by preventing overhang and maintaining a lead for America, which was never a good argument anyway.

Well, I warned some people about him. To avoid getting fooled by bad actors, you have to avoid getting fooled by good actors. (In Altman's case, I had the advantage of more information about him making conflicting statements to different people.)

Anyway, this got me thinking about how I'd spend $7 trillion dollars. Such large numbers get hard for people to understand; you can say it's about $1000 per person alive, but giving it away equally isn't [...]

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Outline:

(01:21) solar

(03:58) grid storage

(05:56) HVDC

(07:18) batteries and supercapacitors

(08:13) motors

(08:49) power electronics

(09:39) copper

(09:54) actuators

(12:05) biomass

(13:45) methanol

(14:40) plastics

(16:09) a new city

(17:37) investment decisions

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