This is true. The real question is how well we can turn the Sun’s radiation into useful work and structured matter. We don’t need “new matter” so much as better ways to rearrange and recycle what we have (plus asteroids).

The culture series by Iain banks is an important read. It describes a hopeful vision of a post-scarcity future. Humanity is currently trapped in a narrow band of possibilities, grappling with power structures and local games. The acceleration of intelligence will lead to modalities of thought that we cannot perceive and conceive of today, in the same way bacteria in a human's body is out of the perception range of the conscious brain.

SILO UPDATES 1/ Silo upgrades: new web app, encrypted sync, deep research. Silo started on iOS as a private-by-default AI interface. That same interface now runs on any device, with history that stays end-to-end encrypted across phone and browser.