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It's a famous trope that tech oligarchs think they could totally have done a physics degree, but then they confirm it by showing e.g. how they don't understand that producing electrical energy isn't "making new electrons", which is something I learned around 7th or 8th grade physics class.

Does Sam Altman also think a water faucet creates new water? Or that wind is the creation of new air?

Full transcript: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam-altman-2/

COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don't we just make more
GPUS?

ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.

COWEN: What's stopping that? What's the ultimate binding constraint?

ALTMAN: We're working on it really hard.

COWEN: If you could have more of one thing to have more compute, what would the one thing be?

ALTMAN: Electrons.