Energy is the base layer to human progress.

Words from the White African.
See Erik’s full post, explaining how rural electrification is a product of imagination, resilience, bitcoin, renewable energy & finally - harnessing the sheer power of autonomous agents. Driving to the operational sites requires battle-ready vehicles, long-tested in the African rallies, with shock-absorbers your best friend. BTC is AI’s shock absorber “while community & compute demand develop..“
I first met Erik in 2006, virtually. It would be another (almost) 20 years before we would finally meet in person, in the stunning Como-side town of Bellagio, under invitation from the Rockefeller Foundation’s driver for change. The Emergent Grid was forming & despite resistance, heterogeneous & distributed compute techniques were gaining ground, being able to run agents at the edge. I was already helping folks do this in Space, why not on the plains of Northern Kenya, or the rural hills of Zambia next to a small hydroelectric dam?
Using AI to watch children’s grades improve because they can see at night, no longer while breathing in harmful kerosene fumes?
Using AI to increase security, attacking black-hats with cryptography itself?
Using AI to enable a new generation of entrepreneurs, finally able to realise every dream, providing for their parents, whilst building their next?
Yes.
Community-first, then inference - AI augmenting humanity.