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I don't understand folks with these answers. I would want $1T or more. I could easily invest it. - I want to build a human cloning startup to build whole-body,

I don't understand folks with these answers. I would want $1T or more. I could easily invest it. - I want to build a human cloning startup to build whole-body, HLA-neutral, antigen-clean, headless clones. Taken to the extreme, this cures all cancers except brain and blood cancers, and it could expand the human lifespan/healthspan to be 200 years or more. - I want to build directed energy systems to manipulate the weather and climate. - I want to build an open source cloud, open source social layer, open source social media and actually get them real traction against the incumbents. Distributed media exchange layer that is P2P, not federated. Rewire the internet to be fault-tolerant and censorship immune. - I want to train frontier AI models and make them open. I want to build massive amounts of high quality training data and make it all available (with a viral license). - I want to build open source hardware. Tractors, automotive EVs, robots, stuff you can hack and own and exchange and print parts for. - I want to build infra for my city. I couldn't stop coming up with ideas for things to build. But, alas, I'm still stuck here at the bottom wondering why a compound in Hawaii could be cooler than these things.

jacobgkau 1y ago
Upvoted for ambition. But some of the things you listed (e.g. cloning) are likely tech limitations rather than financial ones. It's not that money wouldn't be needed to develop the tech-- it absolutely is. But just anyone with a trillion to invest wouldn't automatically be able to develop it, or find the right people to develop it. Building infra for your city would be great (I wish Denver had an actual metro system and not just half-assed light rail for large swaths of the area). But you're going to have to deal with the legality of that beyond simply budgetary concerns-- liability, at least, and also things like eminent domain against people who may not want to sell. The OSS stuff already has people working on it and depends more on market share than technical know-how at this point. Depending on whether AI will actually prove monumental in long-term history, simply buying e.g. OpenAI and open-sourcing their stuff might be the most history-altering thing you could do with a trillion (or it could be a footnote, depending on how things play out).
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throwawynbvc4 1y ago
Because your idea for spending $1T is to start six (massive) companies, hire tens/hundreds of thousands of people and basically become more powerful then most governments. Arguably it's not much different then Bezos and Musk starting rocket companies. All of those things take massive investments in time, a compound in Hawaii does not.

jacobgkau 1y ago

Upvoted for ambition. But some of the things you listed (e.g. cloning) are likely tech limitations rather than financial ones. It's not that money wouldn't be needed to develop the tech-- it absolutely is. But just anyone with a trillion to invest wouldn't automatically be able to develop it, or find the right people to develop it. Building infra for your city would be great (I wish Denver had an actual metro system and not just half-assed light rail for large swaths of the area). But you're going to have to deal with the legality of that beyond simply budgetary concerns-- liability, at least, and also things like eminent domain against people who may not want to sell. The OSS stuff already has people working on it and depends more on market share than technical know-how at this point. Depending on whether AI will actually prove monumental in long-term history, simply buying e.g. OpenAI and open-sourcing their stuff might be the most history-altering thing you could do with a trillion (or it could be a footnote, depending on how things play out).

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throwawynbvc4 1y ago

Because your idea for spending $1T is to start six (massive) companies, hire tens/hundreds of thousands of people and basically become more powerful then most governments. Arguably it's not much different then Bezos and Musk starting rocket companies. All of those things take massive investments in time, a compound in Hawaii does not.