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might say, well, you know, no robot is ever going to match the human brain because we have souls. But I would take from Ilya's comments that he's not a believer in souls or that if they exist, they don't have any impact on your actions. And that matches what I've been saying for quite a while. So I guess all I'm doing is bragging that the guy who knows the most about AI is on the same page as I'v…
← Previous segment →I saw a post from Balaji Srinivasan, one of the smartest people in the world, who was noting that I think it's some kind of Chinese company now has an electric charger for your car. The company is BYD. So I'll take a fact check on that, but I think it's a Chinese company. They now have in production. So this is not in the laboratory. This is actually in the field. They've got chargers for electric cars that add 400 kilometers of range in 5 minutes.
So Balaji calls it the flipping, the EV flipping where it would be faster to get an electric charge in your car than it would be to add gas. Now one of the things about technology that I think sometimes we're blind to is that changes that you think might be coming, they never come. It's like nothing happens, nothing happens, nothing happens, boom, suddenly you pass over some barrier where everything's different.
So I think the point here is that if you have in production like actually in the field a way to charge the car for 400 kilometers in 5 minutes presumably other companies will have to match that. Presumably Tesla has plans we don't know about to get to the next level of that stuff. But that's really going to change everything. Yeah.
And we're moving towards super capacitors, right Owen? So also there's some breakthroughs in super capacitors. And without getting too nerdy, super capacitors are another change everything. You know that they would make the battery refill — what do you call it? Refill charge. It would make the charging and use of batteries a whole different deal. Just make everything better. So that's right on the edge of happening.
All right. You probably heard that Trump is introducing he wants to build a bunch of new battleship type things. He's calling it the Golden Fleet. And he thinks they can build one in two and a half years. D
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o you think that the United States is capable of building an entirely new designed we'll call it a battleship class, but it's going to be different from a battleship. Do you think they can build that in two and a half years? I don't know. I just suspect we don't have that capability. But we'll talk about in a minute that Trump is going to be pushing the CEOs to learn how to build faster because t…
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