People have talked to death about “AI anxiety,” but if you look at it on a different scale, humanity hasn’t even touched the threshold of Type I civilization—by the Kardashev scale, our energy utilization coefficient is roughly 0.73, and we’re still more than an order of magnitude away from truly controlling the energy of an entire planet.
At that magnitude, talking about “AI ruling humanity” is essentially treating today’s small-scale skirmishes as a cosmic-level threat.
If we zoom out even further, AI’s real role should be to help humanity close that 0.27 energy gap—not to steal our jobs.
In the encrypted world, the slice of the pie comes from the compute market and the financialization of energy: narratives like idle-energy tokenization, AI agent scheduling protocols, energy RWA—none of these are mere gimmicks. They may be infrastructure orders on the path toward Type I civilization.
Don’t buy into grand narratives in the short term, but in the long run it’s worth putting this storyline onto your watchlist.
At that magnitude, talking about “AI ruling humanity” is essentially treating today’s small-scale skirmishes as a cosmic-level threat.
If we zoom out even further, AI’s real role should be to help humanity close that 0.27 energy gap—not to steal our jobs.
In the encrypted world, the slice of the pie comes from the compute market and the financialization of energy: narratives like idle-energy tokenization, AI agent scheduling protocols, energy RWA—none of these are mere gimmicks. They may be infrastructure orders on the path toward Type I civilization.
Don’t buy into grand narratives in the short term, but in the long run it’s worth putting this storyline onto your watchlist.