AI Compute Speculation: Earth as Computronium for Gaming?
davidmanheim · x · 2026-08-16
David Manheim humorously extrapolates the compute requirements for AI to play 'The Elder Scrolls'. He suggests that if game scaling follows game-number progression rather than calendar time, Anthropic would need to spend more than its market capitalization on TESVI copies for Claude instances, and EpochAI's AI game stream alone would consume more bandwidth than humanity. This extreme scenario implies a future where Earth is converted into computronium to support tens of billions of AI agents playing the game.
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