PostsCommentsPayoutstheycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • 2 days agoRE: LeoThread 2026-02-24 21-20What role does money play in an AI economy 10–100x larger than the human economy? Steelman the case Money is required among humans because of limited trust, the need to hoard…theycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • 2 days agoRE: LeoThread 2026-02-24 21-20Reflections on the future of social leverage (how to keep a population stable and aligned) Violence — "follow my word or face death" Religion — "follow God's word or face…theycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • 3 days agoRE: LeoThread 2026-02-23 19-58If a model can be burned into a thermoputer and each forward pass run as a single relaxation—taking output tokens and re-clamping the inputs—a thermoputer could cycle nearly a billion times per secondtheycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • yesterdayRE: LeoThread 2026-02-25 23-57Each jump likely requires ~10x the parameters and ~10x the context of the prior stage To reach ~1bn humanoid robots would demand on the order of 1000x the compute available…theycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • yesterdayRE: LeoThread 2026-02-25 23-57Current SOTA: 1-dimensional token streams — text prompt in, code stream out (Claude Code) Next: 2-dimensions — OpenClaw-style: screenshot of the browser in, click/cursor…theycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • yesterdayRE: LeoThread 2026-02-25 23-57The amount of compute needed ahead:theycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • 2 days agoRE: LeoThread 2026-02-24 21-20AIs only need energy, compute, and data (hardware) Money is only required if captured value must sit as a non-hardware resource before deployment Hence, money may not be needed for AItheycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • 2 days agoRE: LeoThread 2026-02-24 21-20Money would only be necessary for AI if: There is a multipolar AI future (multiple AIs that don’t trust each other) but a winner-take-all outcome would leave the dominant AI…theycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • 2 days agoRE: LeoThread 2026-02-24 21-20When the labour force is nuked by AI, where does society go? Back to (1)? An AI-based religion? A fourth possibility: AI psychosis — "an AI convincing people to follow its directives"theycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • 2 days agoRE: LeoThread 2026-02-24 21-20Societies currently blend elements of 1–3 in different proportions across countriestheycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • 3 days agoRE: LeoThread 2026-02-23 19-58If those hardware directions succeed, the coming period will be very interestingtheycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • 3 days agoRE: LeoThread 2026-02-23 19-58Copper I/O today isn't fast enough, and optics only brings limited gains Future chips will address this by embedding weights directly into the compute substratetheycallmejp (54)in LeoFinance • 3 days agoRE: LeoThread 2026-02-23 19-58That implies a theoretical throughput on the order of 100 million tokens per second, with energy use reduced by roughly a billion-fold