Turner Caldwell
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475 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2025
last heard 13 May
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Um and you know, that's where that's where nuclear really comes in.
Particularly around AI and uh crypto and some of the other elements and just security in general, like that is the major unlock.
Like one of the things that I tell people all the time is like if you want to like a just an easy heuristic about like, you know, how you think about like what are the big unlocks that need to have happened, which is the uh think about it this way: the large civilization that has access to the most abundant, cheapest energy.
energy wins like period full stop.
Yeah.
Um I was talking with a friend of mine, another investor last week, and I he actually had he had this great um
description which I actually never thought of about colonization of Mars because I was saying how, you know, like obviously Elon's been super focused on it and I'm like, I don't want to go to Mars.
Like I've never wanted to go to Mars.
It seems like it seems like it sucks there.
I said, but then I realized, um
That actually like terraforming Mars, like that's actually kind of cool because it would make it someplace you'd actually want to go.
So that's why like Mar like Mars colonizations become charismatic, because like just like getting to the moon was was interesting and charismatic um in the 60s, because it was like, can we get there?
Like it was just the it was just like the journey, not the not the end.
But then when you start to think about the idea of uh of of colonization of Mars, well it's interesting.
when you think that like you can make it beautiful.
And he and what he said was, it's just an energy problem.
If you can bring enough energy to bear, then you can terraform up you then you can terraform Mars.
I was like, that was actually for me, that was a like an interesting way to think about it that I hadn't considered, but the same thing applies to everything else, which is
If you have if you have super abundant, super cheap energy, you're as a as a large scale civilization, you're gonna win because it makes everything else better, easier, cheaper, and things that were not possible, it makes them possible.
Kind of like the way SpaceX, what SpaceX has done with launch by just driving the cost per kilogram into the dirt.
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