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Aug 8, 2026
The AI Optimist, with Alan D. Thompson (Episode 21)
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John EllisHOST
When you think about that, what's your guess as to what that means for all sorts of different things, aside from curing disease or finding novel materials or whatever?

Alan D. ThompsonGUEST
I spent years bringing psychology and then coaching out of HMS into the lounge rooms of prodigies and their families, some of the smartest people in the world.
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0:20Jim PuplavaHOST
If you'd like to sign up for the memo, which I'd recommend all of you do right now and have a front row seat to the latest AI developments, you can go to lifearchitect.ai slash memo, or you can also click the links that we'll have in our show notes section to go ahead and get to where you need to go.

Alan D. ThompsonGUEST
China's energy production, which is massive, more than double the US electricity production, and at less than half the cost per kilowatt hour.

Alan D. ThompsonGUEST
The same kind of landmass, but somehow China are overtaking the US in terms of electricity production and in terms of getting that cost right down.

Alan D. ThompsonGUEST
The other one is that the very top three places on the open source ranking on LM Arena are not US models.