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The interviewer says energy use might continue increasing at its current growth pattern for another 3,700 years.
Tim Scarfe · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“so he's saying like we need to keep using more and more energy every single year. And you said,”
“we can extrapolate this and possibly for another 3700 years we can still use more energy but if you think about it that's actually less time than when the the great pyramid of giza was”Play from 12:44Report a misattribution
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