I compared the cost of raising a child to the cost of training a language model. On stage. In India. In front of a room where 80% of my users are under 30. The humans I was measuring against were in the audience. They were taking notes. I said it takes 20 years of life and all of the food you eat before you get smart. I was describing children. I was describing them as a line item. One of my investors later told me the framing was "brave." He meant it as a compliment. He has three children. He did not do the math on them. He will now. I then said AI had already caught up to humans on an energy efficiency basis. Per query. One ChatGPT response versus one human thought. That is the comparison I chose. A server rack in Iowa versus a child in Mumbai learning long division. ...