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Yes...They are pulling what is called a Henry Paulson

"“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number...”" - https://archive.thinkprogress.org/treasury-explains-how-it-c...

Trillion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39310563

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/repor...

Yes, they really mean trillion. I expect it would be the most resources anyone has ever invested into any single goal, even accounting for inflation.

That makes me wonder the entire global cost of things like world war 2. Anyone have relevant links? I can't find any.

Estimates range from about 1 T$ [0] to 4 T$ [1] or 5 T$ [2].

[0] https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/Human-and-mate...

[1] https://moneywise.com/life/lifestyle/financial-facts-about-w...

[2] https://www.whatitcosts.com/world-war-ii-cost-united-states-...

That involved massive movement of people, weapons, and vehicles, let alone factories and resources.

Chip making is expensive, but what do you do with 7T? Buy out every engineer on the planet with half of it, and have them work on problems? Does Altman think he’s Oppenheimer?!