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> no way we scale our compute that much in 70 years

Huh? Ask someone in 1950 if we would ever achieve petaflops on a desktop-sized PC. Yet here we are with H100's. About 10 decimal orders of magnitude faster than the state of the art in 1950.

Quantum computing will also happen, and I think 70 years is more than a realistic time frame.



The bottleneck is energy you can’t scale human energy consumption by 20 orders of magnitude (not in 70 years anyway). There is just not enough of it.




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