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ound a million-year-old skull. A million-year-old skull. Oh, I'm getting an update. It wasn't a million-year-old skull. It was Joe Biden. No, I'm just kidding. It wasn't Joe Biden. It was a million-year-old skull. But since the oldest known human skull was half a million years old, this doubles the potential time that maybe humans have been around in their current form. But they've got to do genet…

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sustainable long-term number. If it is, amazing. I mean it would be beyond my highest expectations but it won't be. Don't expect that. But it's better than not being 3.8 that's for sure.

There's a new European startup. Okay. Did you know that Europe had startups? If you heard that there's a European startup that was getting ready to solve some big problem, what would be your first thought? My first thought was, "Nah, no, they won't." There's a reason that there aren't many European startups or I don't think there are any unicorns, you know, the ones that are worth more than a billion, and it has to do with their stultifying regulations and stuff. So basically you get smothered and taxed to death if you're a startup. But this startup called Euclid, according to Dr. for Singularity on X, they're building this massive chip system, he says, that would allow lesser powered chips. I think they're lesser powered. But what it does is use way less power. So what they're doing is building an infrastructure for AI that would be way more power efficient.

Now what I've been predicting for a while is that the money involved in running the energy needed for AI is so big, you know, we're talking trillions of dollars, that for sure there will be startups trying to reduce the energy drain for AI and for sure there will be at least incremental improvements, but probably somebody's going to come up with more than an incremental improvement. So my bet is that the big companies will spend a trillion dollars on building out power and some small company will say you can do it for 1 billion now, we solved the energy problem. So I feel like the most successful AI company might be somebody who

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hasn't started yet because the big ones are going to run through trillions of dollars. But what happens if the ones that are fast followers just don't need that much energy? Suddenly you're a peer competitor to ChatGPT at one millionth of the cost. So I think that's what's going to happen. Well, you may have heard of this in the news. Apparently there are reports that seem credible that there's n…

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