Back to episode — Episode 3024 CWSA 11/20/25
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According to the comments, you're very anti-Vindman. You know how China and the United States try to influence all these third world countries by giving them loans that they have trouble paying back and you know weaseling into their structure so that they depend on us one way or another. Well, it's the same with AI. So one way to influence some country that's smaller than you is to be their main…
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Now, a big part of this, as you know, is that it costs a lot to put a satellite into space. But that's what Elon's been working on for the last what, 10 years, 20 years. So he's got the reusable rockets now. So at this point, the cost of putting a solar panel in space goes from a thousand times more than it was to whatever it is now and dropping. So it's going to be relatively easy and cheap to put stuff in space. It will have all these advantages over terrestrial stuff.
And what happens if there's only one AI company that can access that energy? Now obviously Tesla and SpaceX I guess SpaceX would be at least open to leasing or selling some of their process to other companies but they don't have to. They could just say all right we'll sell you our rocket access so you can
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put your own panels in space and then you can have infinite energy like we do. But we're going to charge you way more than we charge our own companies. So it's still going to cost you way more to do AI than it does us. So it feels to me like while the FTC is chasing Meta and losing, Meta actually won, that the company that has the greatest chance of completely capturing the only industry that mat…
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