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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Clark via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> [ExI] Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-becomes-world-s-first-trillionaire-after-spacex-mega-float/ar-AA25xJRD?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds"><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>Elon Musk has become the world’s first trillionaire</span></b></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif'>I wonder how long it will be before we have a<span class=gmaildefault> Q</span>uadrillionaire<span class=gmaildefault>.</span></span></b><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#500050'>John K Clark See what's on my list at </span></b><b><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:#500050'><a href="https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis" target="_blank">Extropolis</a></span></b><span style='color:#500050'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span class=gmaildefault><b><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:white'>oi4</span></b></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I estimate 3 to 5 years. By then, SAI is likely to produce the unimaginable wealth many of us have dreamed about most of our lives. At that time, we will likely need to use log scales to estimate wealth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>A fun thought occurred to me. We, everyone here now, is closer to Jeff Bezos’ wealth than Jeff is to Elon’s. But only if we continue to think linearly. We are fortunate to be born late enough in history such that log scales need to be used to describe wealth.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div></div></body></html>