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Energy Abundance Over AI Abundance
Tarun's reframe of what AI's promised abundance actually depends on.
How it works
- 1Cheap energy at scale addresses hunger, literacy, and homelessness directly.
- 2Cheap energy makes AI cheap as a downstream effect.
- 3It's also the better pitch. Nobody fears an abundance of electricity.
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