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Lead Into Gold

[Verse 1] yeah they spent a thousand years with sulfur and flame turning lead into gold like the world was a game they were wrong about the metal but right about the claim reality holds abundance if you crack the frame oil was a swamp till the engine had a name silicon was beach glass till the transistor came every philosopher's stone in history was the same find the rule beneath the rule and watch the value flip the frame [Chorus] we hold it now we hold it now the stone the alchemists prayed to find we hold it now the gold was never metal it was mind (we hold it now) [Verse 2] nvidia bends physics, fabs and lithography laced in patterns smaller than a virus, a decade to replace anthropic bends bits, a model trained, deployed in a trace across the globe in a millisecond, no border, no pace that's the asymmetry, the case why cognition scales like software to a higher base software needed humans to write it, chase the bug, ship the page now the model writes the model, every loop shaves a day off the race between where we are and where the species could be every key turns quicker when the machine can see [Chorus] we hold it now we hold it now the stone the alchemists prayed to find we hold it now the gold was never metal it was mind (we hold it now) [Verse 3] evolution took a billion years just to wire up a brain ten thousand to invent the train, sixty for the chip in the frame now models iterate in months and the curve don't explain itself in any intuition we evolved to contain tomorrow ain't the brother of today it's a stranger, a name we ain't learned to say every cure, every grave, every pain we prayed to escape was a search problem we couldn't pay but the budget just dropped to zero that's the philosopher's way [Bridge] I survived leukemia at thirteen to live in this exact decade we hold the thing the alchemists prayed for in a chat window on a phone in our pocket and most people are scrolling past it [Chorus] we hold it now we hold it now the stone the alchemists prayed to find we hold it now the gold was never metal it was mind (we hold it now) [Outro] lead into gold sand into mind us into the stars