130 years, 10^22x more compute per dollar: Kurzweil's graph sparks debate
Singularitarian · x · 2026-08-21
FutureJurvetson discussed Kurzweil's abstraction of Moore's Law at an AI conference: over 130 years and five compute substrates, compute per dollar has increased 10,000 billion billion times (10^22) — a chart he calls the most important ever made. A quoted thread adds that even as Intel says Moore's Law is hitting a wall, customers buy capability, not transistors, so startups and industry reinvention continue; AI is the current crucible, with energy, agriculture, and construction next.
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