Phil Trammell

As you were saying, another way of saying Moore's Law is... I like the pessimistic framing of Moore's Law is every 18 months, the value of computation halves.

We're just running out of uses for computation so fast that it's sustaining Moore's Law.

Possible.

To me, it does seem like a pretty narrow window.

My guess is that if we have the technology to automate

so many jobs that it becomes like a new kind of political problem, then the pie will also be growing really fast.

Well, unless in all of those professions that it's automating, it's just a hair more productive.

So like the cost of all the capital to replace all the software engineers is just, you know, a hair less than the cost of what we'd make as software engineers.

Well, hold on.

So I think it's worth separating like...

how the revenue is raised, like what's taxed, and then how it's distributed.

It could be that the government hands out shares of Anthropic to everyone by broad-based tax and then buying Anthropic, which would probably be the right thing to do.

I mean, hopefully some like populist proposal doesn't interfere with that and like expropriate some like particular company that everyone happens to know about.

Or consumption.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, that's not going to be that different from just like redistributing the stocks, but it'll be a little different.

Yeah.

Yeah, that seems right to me.

In particular, I just want to distinguish between the...