Balaji Srinivasan
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So the boring company is actually potentially a much, much, much bigger thing than people even realize beyond just tunnels for cars and self-driving cars.
It might be tunnels for cities and for homes and so on in the medium to long term.
Also, you know the term air rights?
Have you heard that term?
No.
I think so.
When you're buying property, right?
Property has, you know, cadesters.
Yeah, so it's like boundaries, like the latitude, longitude coordinates in XY space that define what you're actually buying if you're buying property.
In cities, you also have air rights, which add a Z axis because you're going up in the air and you might build a skyscraper.
And can you build upward in this way?
Because if, you know, are you casting shadows on people nearby and taking away, you know?
So...
Now you have, let's call it subterranean rights, which are ground rights.
How low can you drill into the ground without, you know, obviously you can destabilize things near you and whatnot.
So there's engineering considerations.
That's going to become a big thing.
Anyway, coming back to the stack.
So Elon, Grokopedia.
So we got Gelman Amnesia.