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The market is pricing in the potential for future revolutionary shifts which seem fairly likely. For instance if there ends up being substantial labor disruption due to LLMs then the economy as we know it is going to end up being reshaped in ways that are difficult to imagine beyond the fact that the LLM providers would likely play a critical role in it.

Similarly, SpaceX has already brought the cost of getting things to space down by a couple of orders of magnitude, and Starship is rapidly progressing with the potential to bring them down a couple more. The aspirational goals there are being able to get things to space on the order of $10-$20/kg. That would dramatically reshape not only space but even transport as we know it, very likely in a way analogous to how the ability to quickly send a 0 or 1 signal long distances for cheap reshaped the world in ways that would be essentially impossible to predict prior to its happening.

I'm bearish on the LLM revolution and bullish on the space one, which generally seems to also be the market consensus.

parent somenameforme 4 months ago

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