Garrison Davis

And one of the unprecedented things in history that...

I wish people would realize is not ever going to come back is that sort of post-war economic boom, you know, that 1950 era growth and excess that has become the default state that many people are striving to return to.

When in reality, something like that is a historical anomaly driven by artificially cheap and abundant energy.

You know, the normal people are talking about sometimes is just this 50 to 70 year fossil fuel binge.

A binge that we are reaching the end of.

And I think a fantasy to believe that we can replicate for all time.

Right, yeah, but it's the time that so much of the world that we exist in was created, right?

And people almost see themselves as a different species from human beings in the 19th century, right?

Yeah.

They can't conceive of society that way.

Exactly, exactly.

And it's something that I've been dwelling on because what a time to be alive, to see, you know,

Personal cars being so ubiquitous.

But the ubiquity of personal cars is an aberration, it's a historical aberration.

It's not one that is likely to be sustainable in the long term.

You know, even if there are electric cars taking the place of gas-powered vehicles and we run out of gas oil, even the materials necessary to produce electric cars are not always going to be around.

They're not always going to exist.

We can't supplement each and every individual person with a car for all of time.

So many of the rare earth minerals that are, again, quite rare, we've spent them on things that may serve a novelty or an interest in the short term, but it's not something that we can maintain forever.

But I'm more interested in the AI bubble in the sense that how long can this AI everywhere thing persist when the material is necessary to maintain it?