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Tim Urban on the path to AGI and trends in tech history | E1779

This Week in Startups

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The Exponential Growth of Computing

In 2000, people were plotting the one metric you can use to assess computing power and the growth of it is calculations per second per thousand dollars. The trend was that even a computer in your pocket can do what a human brain can do - trillions of calculations per second. It's this concept of accelerating rate of change instead of diminishing returns which we often have in other industries such as technology. And so I love this chart, the exponential growth of computing. Maybe you could squirt gases, describe it to people who are listening.

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