Rob Wachen
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Rob Wachen’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So you can do pretty cool stuff because they're smart, but it's not going to be civilization scale.
What happens when you have countries that can have literally a billion concurrent agents, like a billion people in the workforce working 24-7 concurrently on the same stuff?
It's just kind of unfathomable what's going to happen.
And it's going to be the biggest proliferation of technology humanity's ever seen.
We are in a new era of intelligence where the cost of producing intelligence is dramatically so much cheaper than the value of the intelligence that we are in a many year, probably many decade supply shortage of these tokens.
And basically any chip or any system that can produce tokens is likely to be extremely valuable and you should find some part of the supply chain of the token
I can be everything from model training down to what we're doing in the silicon and otherwise to spend time on and push the frontier.
And that the companies that are the largest are frankly going to be the companies that produce most of the global supply of tokens and own a majority of the supply chain of that token.
During my cancer treatment, there was a big decision I had to make.
The doctors came to me and said, it's time for you to decide.
Do you want to get surgery or do you want to get radiation?
Here's the trade-off.
If you get surgery, you're more likely to live, but you have to assume you'll never be able to walk again.
If you get radiation, you'll be able to walk again, but it's not the same probability that you'll live.
You may die.
What do you want to do?
And I was 16 and my parents said, you have to make this decision for yourself.
I thought a lot about it for a long time and decided I'm going to do the surgery.
I get the surgery.
One of the things you do when you get a tumor resection is they do something called a necrosis analysis, where they look at all the different cells and say, is this cell dead or alive?
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