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The Big Yellow Book

A book about the post‑AGI economic system—where the core constraint is energy, and the core asset is the ability to harness it.

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Core Thesis

When intelligence is abundant, the economy re-centers on the physical: energy capture, storage, and conversion.

Power accrues to those who can deploy systems that convert energy into autonomy at scale.

AI compresses labor, leaving markets to price coordination, access, and governance rather than work.

What happens when cognition is cheap and everywhere.

Why energy becomes the limiting factor and the dominant store of value.

Factories, compute, and grids as the new borders.

Human leverage moves to ownership, risk, and strategic direction.

Aligning autonomous systems with human outcomes.

• Prices shift from labor to energy and access to productive systems.

• The bottleneck is no longer intelligence, but deployment and scaling.

• Energy capture → compute → agents → real‑world influence.

• Competitive advantage = control of energy pipelines + permission layers.