Energy Becomes Intelligence

Guillermo Rauch believes we're entering an era where energy directly transmutes into intelligence, with computational power and problem-solving capabilities limited primarily by our access to energy resources.

Key Points:

• We're clearly entering a world where energy can be transmuted into intelligence

  • "We're clearly entering a world in which energy can be transmuted into intelligence"
  • Any problem seems tractable with enough GPU compute cycles

• The only limiting factor to computational power is our ability to harness energy

  • With enough cycles of GPUs, previously difficult problems become solvable
  • Energy becomes the fundamental constraint on intelligence

• This connects to ideas about fundamental stores of value

  • A unit of wealth needs to be something rare and provable
  • The concept of tracking wealth through energy is intriguing
  • Related to the Kardashev scale and civilizations' ability to capture energy

• This perspective ties to historical concepts like the "energy dollar"

  • Ford and others proposed currency based on joules of energy/electricity
  • Such a currency would be "rock solid" because "it tracks reality"
  • It would "track the universe perfectly"

• The relationship between energy, intelligence, and wealth creates a foundation for future economic systems

  • Computational intelligence requires energy as its fundamental input
  • This creates a natural connection between energy resources and value creation