“I think we will sort of never be out of the compute shortage. I've never seen any commodity quite like this one, but it seems to me like the demand for sufficiently high quality intelligence at a sufficiently low price is effectively uncapped.”

the world can support that many years of 1,000 X in a row. Fair enough. But we'll try our best. We'll figure something out.

I mean, the capacity, I guess it's just a function of how much bigger your ambitions are for intelligence and how, you know, if you do a lot more.

So all of these things happen. They come to pass. It's 10 years from now. What's the best version of that 10 years from now with intelligence fully on tap, super intelligence here? And we figure it out. We make it. The society makes it.

I kind of think if every year people have more freedom and agency to spend more of their time doing the stuff they want to do, and they feel like the quality of life and the quality of their time is going up year after year, we'll probably be mostly okay. We will have avoided like a crazy…

Let me put you back into the sophomore year of Stanford. You're coming to YC. If you could give yourself a message in a bottle to that Sam Altman, what would you say to him right now?