Toward Type 1

Essays on the road to a Type 1 civilisation

01 Energy

Energy produced today · local

941,553,283,551,767,600 J

Output

19.52 TW

Kardashev rating

K = 0.7291

Type 1 target

1016 W

Progress to Type 1

19.5 TW / 10,000 TW · 0.195%
Type 0Planetary budget · Type 1

Est. by extrapolation from Energy Institute Statistical Review 2025 (592 EJ, 2024) at +2%/yr

02 Compute

Compute performed today · local

7.34334 × 1026 FLOP

Capacity

1022.2 FLOP/s

All human brains

8.2 × 1024 FLOP/s

At current growth

Parity ≈ 2031

Progress to brain parity

1022.2 / 8.2 × 1024 FLOP/s · 0.2%
Silicon todayAll human brains · 8.2B minds

Est. global AI compute stock per Epoch AI (2026) at ~3.3x/yr · brain ≈ 10¹⁵ FLOP/s (Carlsmith 2020) × 8.2B people

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