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LSTM pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber compares trillion-dollar corporate valuations to the physical volume of all gold ever mined

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IBM in 1971 represented more gold than Apple in 2022

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Tera IPOs coming! $1T sounds like a lot. But $1T is just a 7-m-wide gold cube, thanks to massive inflation since 1971 when $ and gold decoupled. A little house full of gold. To put things in perspective: the 2017 neutron star merger GW170817 produced several earth masses of gold.

8:01 AM · Jun 3, 2026

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Some users praise Schmidhuber's gold-cube comparison for offering useful perspective on NVIDIA's projected $5T valuation, while others dismiss the post as a repetitive gold-bug rant.

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Tera IPOs coming! $1T sounds like a lot. But $1T is just a 7-m-wide gold cube, thanks to massive inflation since 1971 when $ and gold decoupled. A little house full of gold. To put things in perspective: the 2017 neutron star merger GW170817 produced several earth masses of gold.