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Balaji Srinivasan

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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

So this is like the solar singularity, which is showing that in Africa, solar power is just absolutely mooning.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

It's wild.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

yes and this is kind of like when smartphones just started working when smartphones started working they just went like you know the when the economics work it gets taken to its logical conclusion and just suddenly they started getting snapped up in africa they solar panels have gotten so robust so cheap they're resistant to like rocks hitting them and so on you know the glass doesn't shatter they can just work anywhere you know i'm a big nuclear guy i love nuclear but it's really nuclear and solar not ore and the reason is

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Solar is just so easy to set up relative to nuclear.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

You can just roll it off the truck or whatever, set it up.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

You know, it's much, much easier permit wise, everything wise.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

It takes up way more horizontal space.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

It's not as scalable.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

It doesn't provide like, you know, reliable power in the same way the batteries are improving that.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Anyway, point is, though, solar is real.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

It's no longer like it can work in Africa without subsidies.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

OK, so that's the solar singularity.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

OK, here's another one.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

the internet dating singularity you see this one yep right essentially all previous modes of how humans meet have been replaced right by just the internet in like 10 20 years right okay then here is the gold singularity just this i'm sure you've talked about this on your show right just gold going voof like this since you know the 2024 election right basically more than doubling

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

um here is the robot singularity not quite like as up and to the right as that but it's pretty up and so aggressive right it's impressive that's right um this is like the tariff singularity so to speak right just what i'm talking about are these radical changes like this like this you know right and um

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Then this is like the agent.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Now, this one, by the way, is there's a very, very interesting comment.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

You've seen this one, which is like the time for tasks an agent can do probably.

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Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

Right.

Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
Balaji: The Fed Does Invisibly What Lenin Did With Guns β€” And You're Not Supposed to Notice | Impact Theory W/ Tom Bilyeu & Balaji

It basically says, oh, agents are getting more and more capable.