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Austin Vernon - Energy Superabundance, Starship Missiles, & Finding Alpha

Dwarkesh Podcast

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How to Optimize for Local Inefficiencies?

A lot of times people are just, like running over it because processing has been getting so much cheaper. You have to fight local optivsation, but the level you have to is probably different with physical goods. If you're doing soft warers like your going to break all these up into smaller sections, and then you wouldn't be impacting each other and all that, and you could work on your own thing. But if you're disconnecting those areas in a big way,  the end result is extremely expensive. It's really bad to try to actually coordinate how this equipment is going to operate. So if you just let the grid as everyone knows what'sgoing to happen

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