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Alex Wissner-Gross

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How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

We're trying to fix that by using artificial superintelligence to solve all of physics, give us a second physical golden age.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

We have another portfolio company, Coastal Assembly, that's using AI to grow entire islands and new coastlines by using AI to steer ocean currents.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

We have a portfolio company that's, as I mentioned, running the first road race for humanoid robots in this country.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

We have portfolio companies that are doing all sorts of things.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

Actually, one that's highly appropriate for this setting, we have a company, Orn, that created the world's first tradable

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

AI compute index.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

So right now, I can see out of the corner of my eye, a big board where I can see indices trading.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

What I don't see there is the price of compute.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

And yet we're spending as a civilization, trillions of dollars tiling the earth with computers.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

That's right.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

What if there's a major geopolitical event in a certain part of the world?

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

Or what if a new frontier model comes out that makes a lot of use of one type of GPU or not as much maybe of a GPU due to radical algorithmic efficiency gains?

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

There's no way to hedge that right now.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

So Orin has created the first tradable index for the price of compute that's already being built on.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

These are all examples from physical superintelligence, to coastal assembly, to ProRL, to ORN, and numerous others that my venture fund, O21T, is focused on.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

These are investments that are, in some sense, intrinsically post-singular.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

They're built on the thesis, we're in the middle of the technological singularity, the cost of everything...

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

subject to some caveats, is going to zero.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

Cost of intelligence is going to zero, or toward zero at least.

How I Invest with David Weisburd
E337: How to Invest in a Post Singularity World

Cost of energy is trending toward zero, too cheap to meter.