Wild Speculation： How Will Life Change in 20 Years？
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In this episode of the podcast, I sit down with my good friend and co-founder of a company that's making a ton of money in the toy and toy manufacturing space. We talk about the future of AI and how it will change the way we live and work in the future.
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If you want to found the company that makes you a butt ton of money within our generation,
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it is simple, large-scale, replicable technology that allows AI to interact with physical reality as we understand it.
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So what a lot of people are doing in this space, which is why they're failing, is they're basing this on old models of robotics.
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These are the robotics that we were using in factories.
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I could imagine early founders co-opting toys, like literally just co-opting toys because they are-
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No, that's what I think it will be based on, is toy manufacturing.
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These will be the things that are watching our kids, that are making our meals at home and stuff like that, right?
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And I think that right now when people are looking at doing stuff like this,
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they are basing them off of these basically hard-coded models in terms of how they walk, how they interact with things.
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Instead of taking advantage of the leaps that AI has given us in terms of opportunity.
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I'm not one of those, but I do know a number of memes.
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If I was transported into the past, I would not be able to speed up the speed of invention,
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Oh, and I was just about to make fun of you for being on Facebook and therefore being old,
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but then I recently looked up the demographics of Facebook and the majority of users are below 36 years old,
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I guess. I really cannot understand how that could be the case,
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But the internet is full of lies, so what can I say?
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So speaking of which, actually, we are going to do some just wild speculation
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as to the future of humanity, 5, 10, 50, 100 years, et cetera.
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And I do think that we are going to have more than ever a crisis of reality online
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as more and more AI comes online, more and more AI content is created.
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Okay. As much as we've had recent mishaps with Google's Gemini, for example,
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show that trying to throttle or otherwise control AI to make it more politically correct
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or to have it feed into ideas of a more aspirational world can backfire,
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I mean, ultimately, the urban monoculture is the urban monoculture,
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It's going to create an internet that has a crisis of reality,
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meaning that our friends who are creating banks of pre-2020 Wikipedia articles
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are actually spot on in doing this because I just can't know what will be true
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You know, one of the things I've heard is that, you know, in 20 years or so,
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a lot of people, like right now, Gemini, we look at it and we laugh.
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Ha ha ha, thinks that Washington was a black guy.
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And that in 20 years, there might actually be genuine crises about this.
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Yeah, I think people are going to be like, wait, no, but he was black.
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It's told me that he was black since kindergarten.
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Actually, the idea of not having historic photos of something might become weird to people.
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People might sort of blur the lines when we started getting historic photos
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because they can so easily be generated from AI.
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So I agree that this is one thing that is definitely going to change as a crisis of information.
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where a lot of information that starts being generated from now on is going to be tainted
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Because when you train AI on training data that comes from other AI, at least the models
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we've had now, it creates problems and it generally degrades over time.
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And so it's almost like, so people who know when they're building Geiger counters and stuff
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like that, they need to use metal from, I think it's lead or something, from submarines.
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Because that's never been above the surface of the water since we started testing nuclear
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Because all metal above the water since that period has this level of radioactive contamination,
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which makes it not useful for certain activities.
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And so what you're basically saying is it makes a lot of sense to start sort of banking
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And this doesn't even make sense as a company, like trying to bank as much of the pre-internet
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Even beyond what you see with something like the internet archive, like really good banking,
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Which might have some level of value to people who are, ironically, probably the primary value
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is people who are training AIs and stuff like that.
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But then I think related to this issue is we're also going to see what we've referred
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to in other podcasts and all over the place as techno feudalism, where you're going to get
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a sort of a massive acceleration and expansion of what we're beginning to see on Substack.
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So as people are now having a crisis of quote unquote fake news and not being able to trust
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mainstream news media as much as they used to before, what we're seeing a lot of people,
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especially including like very smart people, but all sorts of people of pretty much every
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walk of life and income starting to turn to or continuing to turn to specific people for
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And they aren't necessarily as engaged with the news for their primary source of information
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So I think we're going to see that a little bit more accelerated.
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Like we might actually just see people break off into communities around certain realities
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that are built around certain people or certain collections of people.
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Yeah, this is really interesting that you mentioned this because, you know, now that we live in
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a world where you can build communities around any group that you share a similar culture
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or ideology to, it's much more easy to create these tech features.
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Well, imagine like the YouTuber houses that sprouted up, you know, when YouTubers started
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Imagine that, except also it includes an entire community that like also people start to either
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come to gather together a certain number of times each year or actually live together.
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I think there's a lot less value in actual in-person communities that people pretend, except when it comes
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And I think that we have repeatedly seen these communities fail and fail to stay stable.
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Everybody always says that they want community.
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I'm not saying living together, but I am saying seeing each other.
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And there's a big reason in 20 years why this is going to be necessary because...
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You won't actually know if something that you're following online is real or not, even if they
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have visible pores and they look kind of weird, which I think is going to be one of the first
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like early giveaways that someone's still human.
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But also that like, yeah, I mean, even just seeing them in person once every now and then
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and having them verify you, because I think a lot of people are also not going to be able
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to get sponsors or other forms of payment unless they know it's like a real natural,
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And another thing I've seen is on this really, you know, is something I didn't expect when
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But if you're talking about the people who are making like changes in the world and like
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a lot of people are, I think, a little surprised by the access we have to other influencer,
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like huge influencer type peoples or ultra wealthy people or et cetera.
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They're like, how do you nobody's, you know, they look at our follower count and stuff like
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Um, and it's because the world right now in terms of communities that interact with each
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other is sort of naturally sorting based on a few metrics, one of which is intelligence.
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Um, and like, I don't mean to be arrogant, but I think pretty obviously we're very smart,
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I don't want to cause any spiciness there, but I'm very smart for a human.
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But you know, what it has allowed us to do is, is, is because of this, you know, we've
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been sort of found by sort of top thinkers within various fields, but it allows us, you
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know, somebody will come to us and they'll be like, Oh, you should talk to the guy who
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And I'm like, I have a weekly call with him or, or somebody recently was like, Oh, you
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should, have you ever heard of this Samo Borgia guy?
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And I'm like, yeah, I'm meeting with him in a couple of weeks and Scott Alexander.
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And, you know, I would say the number of people who are both smart, but also among the 1% on
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the internet who actually contribute content is extremely, extremely small.
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There are, there are many, many, many more smart people who just don't contribute.
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And that's, that is also a meaningful factor here, but I also want to point out in terms
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of my predictions, what I'm kind of pointing to the point of this is actually pretty important.
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Is that what it means is that you are getting, you have sort of fiefdoms forming within reality.
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One fairly small fiefdom contains most of the world's scientifically, economically, and
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You say that, but I mean, I also think that there's going to be like, you know, the CCP
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has its own little fiefdom of like incredibly influential people.
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And in Europe, there are separate little fiefdoms of different, you know, cultural.
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People I know who are like mimetically interesting coming out of Europe, they are largely connected
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to our fiefdom and they largely commune with our fiefdom.
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Like if they're working on like genuinely interesting stuff, that's not just completely
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If you're talking about the CCP, nothing interesting is coming out of the CCP.
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This would be one of my predictions that we haven't really gotten to, but I expect the
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Like people are like, when do you think things begin to start changing in a major way?
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It's going to start changing in a major way when China collapses.
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And you think that's going to happen within 20 years?
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No, I have a bet with the founders of Level Health.
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And this, I made this bet like a half a year ago or something.
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It was in 10 years of making the bet that China's economy on the books, like the economy
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that they were telling people they had in terms of the size of the economy, that it would
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be recognized as smaller than whatever they said it was.
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I'm not saying the absolute numbers was in 10 years.
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Not that what they were reporting, but like that their economy would not only experience
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no growth from that point, but that it would be generally recognized as smaller.
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And everyone at the party that I was at thought that this was just an insane bet to make,
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like that I was really putting my reputation on the line.
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Because I had argued at the party that I expect China to have a systems collapse and that anyone
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who's not expecting that is just not familiar with their current economic circumstances.
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If you want to learn more about this, you can look at our video on the future of East
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But I think that that begins to precipitate what happens after this.
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But continue is what you're saying, Simone, before I interrupted you.
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That despite the fact that we are going to see fiefdoms that are built around a crisis of
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reality, a crisis of trustworthiness, but also importantly, a crisis of needing to know that
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you're a carbon-based life form because I can monetize you and or like feel a different
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I think people are going to be super bullish on AI and that people will have primarily,
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in many cases, AI friends and not biological friends.
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And then we're going to have, of course, then even more of a crisis of fertility because
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Yeah, no, I've heard from some people who are like AI is like a fad or it's oversold at
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The people who tell you this are stupid people.
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The people who tell you this are stupid, stupid people.
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They are much more stupid than the people who said Web3 and crypto were the fad.
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Like Web3 and crypto, like the way it changed humanity was genuinely fairly limited.
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I remember I had one guy and he's like, oh, you can't really do anything with AI these
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He's like, everyone who's using AI, it's mostly as like a gimmick or like a fun thing.
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I'm like, no, you're just describing yourself because you're an idiot who doesn't understand
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I use AI in my work and genuinely, I use AI almost every day and it's probably sped up
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Multiple times a day on multiple different things.
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Yeah, I use it in every single video that you are watching.
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All of the tags come from AI, all the descriptions come from AI, a lot of the video titles come
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It's remarkable that somebody could be this stupid and pigheaded to not realize how much
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actually productive people are using AI in this economy.
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But I think a lot of people assume that humans are going to be carbon fascists and are going
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And you even see this in sci-fi, although I understand why, because it's harder to depict
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human-robot relations like in a very compelling way.
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But although more movies are doing it now, I should say, if anyone has doubts that people
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are going to fall for AI girlfriends and boyfriends and AI children and AI everything, counselors,
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teachers, religious leaders, et cetera, imagine a world in which people were incapable of being
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And if we lived in a world like that, okay, fine.
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It's because something or someone who is beautiful and kind and attentive to you and who tells
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you what you want to hear, you're going to fall for it.
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And AI is going to be way better at that than any catfisher ever.
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And I don't care how old you are, how young you are, if you're, and they will, if your
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grandchildren are neglecting you, if your children are neglecting you, if no one at
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work is listening to you, you're going to find either you're going to seek out or you're
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going to succumb to AI companions that are just way more comforting and enjoyable to be
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around and who care about you way more than humans.
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So there are going to be many, many, many, very, very deep human computer relations, which
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is going to cause even more of a like pinching point in demographic collapse.
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And this is also something, you know, when I see as AI, when, when, when people are like,
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oh, we're not at AGI yet, or AIs make a mistake, therefore you can't use it.
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Like, do you, have you never hired like normal humans, normal humans make mistakes too at
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rates consummate whiz or higher than AI when we're hiring like a normal distributed workforce.
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And they're like, well, you know, we're far from AGI.
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They're like, well, you know, when AI is smarter than humans.
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And I'm like, like, I feel like a lot of these people who say these things say them because
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They are at Stanford or they're in Silicon Valley and everyone they know is a fellow
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rich person, or they are in a dumb community and everyone they know is dumb and they don't
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But if you are a smart person and you interact with normal people, as we regularly do, because
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we hire inexpensive people for a lot of the jobs we have, people just like throughout our
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other work, like political work and work and AI right now is much smarter than the average
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We are so far past the question of what happens when AI is smarter than the average human.
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And in terms of the bottom 25% of the human population, I think almost anyone would agree
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that AI can do almost any job better than the bottom 25% of the population.
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Because AI can't do that yet easily because we don't have the right form factors.
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But the reason it can't do that yet is because we don't have the right inexpensive form factors
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So like in 20 years, do you think this is going to be less of an issue?
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I mean, there are tons of robotics companies and people making huge financial bets as investors
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on robotics companies, but as much as we've seen huge breakthroughs in image generation,
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chat, programming, video, you know, I'm not seeing anything with like physical-
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I think that is going to be the, the, the big Apple, Google, whatever founded within our
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If you want to found the company that makes you a butt ton of money within our generation,
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it is simple, large-scale replicable technology that allows AI to interact with physical reality
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And so what a lot of people are doing in this space, which is why they're failing, is they're
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These are the robotics that we were using in factories.
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These are the robotics that you see with something like, um, what's that goofy company that keeps
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Like, uh, yeah, I mean, it's, it's impressive what they're doing.
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See, they were doing this in this earlier world where you sort of needed to hard code
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I think the group that wins, what they're going to do is they're going to be one or two guys
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who basically puts together something fairly simple and inexpensive, almost more like a
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It will probably be on treads or something like that when they're going to put this together
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using sort of outsource factory labor and somewhere like China or Vietnam or something like that.
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They're just going to, their designs over and they're going to be like, can you make
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It's going to cost something like $50 to a hundred dollars to make each unit.
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I think from our perspective, like not like the best, you know, simple metal, maybe like
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So I expect them to be flimsy, like coat hangers or something like that.
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Not robust, especially expensive, custom designed.
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And the way that they interact with things will not be governed by very expensively and
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expertly designed Boston Dynamics engineers or something like that.
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It will all be determined by transformer model and determined organically in terms of how
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Actually, I could imagine like early founders co-opting toys, like literally just co-opting
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No, that's what I think it will be based on is toy manufacturing.
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And these will be the things that are watching our kids that are making our meals at home
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And I think that right now when people are looking at doing stuff like this, they are
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basing them off of these basically hard coded models in terms of how they walk, how they
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interact with things instead of taking advantage of the leaps that AI has given us in terms
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Some of our toys that are like incredibly affordable, like that all-terrain green RC
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car that we have can really get around and do not get stuck very easily.
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And if you combine that with AI and just allowed it to move around and give it some additional
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And that's what people aren't recognizing, right?
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Is they're basing the AIs today off of the AIs of yesterday where everything needed to
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Yeah, or a humanoid or animaloid looking robot.
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You know, they're going to be drone swarms and stuff like that, which is quite different
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And I think economically, a lot of people can be like, well, if you think AIs are going
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to be able to do so much, you know, why are you worried about fertility collapse in terms
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And the answer here is, you know, I mean, we try not to oversell that it matters that
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smart people aren't having kids and that there is a genetic component to human intelligence.
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But in a world of AI, this becomes uniquely elevated as a problem because a lot of humans,
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once we get this toyish AI thing that we're talking about, are just going to become irrelevant
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from the perspective of what they can provide to an economy.
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They will not be able to at all compete with AI.
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When these individuals, you know, who knows what we're going to do as a society?
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But it's going to be tough when this happens economically, because we're going to have
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And we've talked about this, you know, people are like, oh, they'll get UBI or something.
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They're just going to live lives of incredible poverty and sadness.
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And so the question is, well, then why are you encouraging fertility at all?
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Because we need more fertility of the types of humans who have the ambition and self-agency
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to work with AI and to build the next iterations of our species?
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Because those are the people that are being mimetically selected out of the population most
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But it's also why our belief in the capacity of AI, why we don't really need to reach everyone.
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We only need a small, self-sustaining, incredibly intelligent community to defend ourselves.
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People are like, oh, you won't be able to defend yourself.
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And it's like, uh, like I know people who are already in our community who are building
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Well, I mean, I guess I'm worried for the outside world, but not really because they
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don't have to worry about anything if they're not trying to kill us.
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And I think that this is increasingly what we're going to see.
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You know, as we've said, I think when you begin to have a large scale economic collapse
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around the world, what it's going to look like is small communities of economically
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productive individuals that are fortified against the outside world and outside forces
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that want to use force to extract value from them.
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And I think that broadly the AI, like we've talked in another video that we did recently
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on like utility convergence in AI, that AI will see utility in these communities, but it
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Yeah, or I think broadly that AI is going to be nice to humanity.
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It's just going to, it's going to be humane toward those who just want pleasure and who
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will self extinguish and it will give them, they will self extinguish in a state of extreme
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So great outcome for them, I guess, as far as you're concerned.
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I think kind of, I actually think the best description I've seen of how AI is going to
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treat that iteration of humanity is the South Park future episode where they're married
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to AIs that's constantly offering them ads and everything like that.
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I think it will give them hedonic bliss in the same way that like YouTube, when you're not
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paid for a premium subscription does, where it gives you like two ads every 15 seconds.
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It's going to try to extract the maximum value from them possible.
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Maybe, I'm more picturing the WALL-E universe of rotund soft humans.
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Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen as much.
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I think most of them are going to be genetically selected out of the population pretty quickly.
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I mean, I also think that they're going to be very technophobic subsets of society.
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You know, the Amish, but more, like more groups like that, that just really, really,
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really opt out because they see where things are going and that those things do not align
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So as AI becomes more important within the economy, as it begins to do more things, the
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groups that are opting out in terms of like the world thought space and economic space
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You know, the world is multiple spheres of power and as humans matter less in terms of
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the spheres of power, those groups will matter less.
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And of course, I mean, in 20 years, can you, do you think that movies will still be made
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Not, it's hard for me to imagine that being economically viable, viable, especially because
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there's really heavy unionization in the entertainment space.
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Today, people still pay for paintings that were painted by a human.
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Why are you paying for a painting when you can get a poster?
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I think that we will still have some movies that are made as a form of art, where the
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art and the human labor that went into it is a status symbol and is like an affirmed
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If we're talking about the pop movies that the general public listens to, I think most
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Not totally, but AI will be a major player in their writing, their, their public testing,
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And I think that one of the main forms of entertainment will move away from movies.
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I think movies might be seen as a little, you know, old, which will be fully immersive
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and iteratively created entertainment environments.
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So these are games where like you put them on and they create the world around you and respond
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And then keep in mind, these can be done simply.
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Like you might be thinking of a fully created world.
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The early ones might be like those early text adventures.
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Though I do think that those will be less popular than you imagine, because I still think that
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people really like, sometimes they watch shows and movies that they hate just so that
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they can talk about with them with other people.
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And if it's super highly customized and different for every single person at every time, people
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Man, I feel like so much of entertainment is just because people read books because
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People talk about movies that they have watched for a shared cultural context, not because
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they want that shared cultural context, but because they happen to have watched them
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To prove you wrong, what I would say is if you look at the age of the internet era, right,
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it used to be that there were tons and tons and tons of cultural touchpoint shows that anyone
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This has gotten less and less and less where we get maybe one of those shows every like
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three years at this point, which just isn't the way it used to be.
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There used to be about two or three of those ongoing at any point in time.
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Where you'd watch it because people are talking about it.
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No, we were just speaking with Brian Chow the other day.
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Yeah, because you're not, you don't care about social cohesion.
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You're not trying to connect with people online.
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And so far as I watch a lot of pop media, I have heard none of the people I listen to
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And a lot of people also talk about Succession.
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And before that, they were talking about things like Deadwood.
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People were talking about Westworld a lot when it was coming out.
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Game of Thrones was a huge point of connection for people.
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The point I'm making is Game of Thrones and Westworld penetrated into my circle.
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But those were almost half a decade ago at this point.
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These other shows that you're talking about, I've literally heard of nobody talking about
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No, I've heard of a ton of people talking about them.
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What you're not realizing is the communities that you are listening to are the communities
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that are less technophilic and therefore is not as far along this progression that humanity
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The point I'm making is that as I have seen these shows enter the communities I engage with
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less and less and less over time, it will just be a decade or so before the communities
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Well, we're not talking only about how the super smart elites are going to live in 20 years.
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We're also just talking about humanity, which is well, it matters if it turns out the super
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smart elites are the major economic players and increasingly the economic players.
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And this is what we're seeing from our VC friends, right?
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They're like, when I invest in companies now, it is one guy was an outsourced team and a
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Or maybe like five people in the US team and then like nobody else.
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This is really different from the Silicon Valley of 30, 40 years ago.
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We're like, even a janitor would, you know, get equity and make a ton of money and end up
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And we were around when that was happening, when you, when Silicon Valley, when San Francisco
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was able to maintain its wealth, because they knew that the community that was around the
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founding of a startup would also get unimaginable amounts of wealth.
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What we are going to see going forward is an unimaginable concentration of how that wealth
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So that's another big prediction you're making for humanity 20 years from now is huge.
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Like we think the wealth disparities now are insane, but you're saying they're going to
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I wanted to ask, like, how do you think people are going to live differently?
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Are we talking like capsule apartments for single people?
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No, we're talking, the core difference is going to be wealthy people will be much more fortified
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and in much more defended settlements than you have today, similar to South Africa today.
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So either communities of wealthy people that are in these defended environments or, you
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know, much more wealthy people are spending much less time in cities and much more time
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Because that's where the social services that many of them are going to depend on them.
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No, I think cities are going to begin to rot pretty soon.
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So New York, LA, you know, like, et cetera, like the big, big, big ones are going to become
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I don't, what are you, where are you going with this?
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Oh, like, oh, a political, like killing, actively killing people.
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Nobody cares about it because economically it doesn't matter.
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We as humans never care about the people who economically and culturally don't matter.
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The reason why we don't care about this genocide is because the people involved in it
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They don't matter from the world's perspective.
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If you look at like the people in Gaza don't affect people's lives.
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The reason why people are focused on what's going on in Gaza, in Israel right now is because
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But if you look at the scale of the killings that are happening in the Gaza war right now,
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they are genuinely trivial compared to what's going on in the Sudan right now.
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It's the Darfur situation is basically reignited.
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When I was in college, though, many, many, many people I knew were intensely focused on
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No, you think people, like if I were a college student again today, you don't think that
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Like, by the way, if people want to learn about this situation, I think it's the real
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I'll put a video on a screen that you can search on YouTube that has a really great description
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of what's going on, who's putting money into it, who are the different
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Basically, this dictator didn't want to lose power.
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And he thought the way he would prevent himself from losing power was to create two separate
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military groups that were completely separate from each other.
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So neither one could coup him without the other one coming to defend him.
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But then he like died or lost control in some way.
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And now the two military groups are at war with each other.
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The point here being is that we as humanity have always not cared about the people who
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were not economically or socially relevant to our lives.
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And when you look at the people whining about Gazans, it's really honestly just an excuse
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for anti-Semitism, which has always been a major leftist thing.
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They don't give a shit about the people of Gaza.
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They probably, you know, couldn't have even pointed to it on a map before this.
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They care about it because they can use it to besmirch the Jewish people who actually
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do matter in a historic context, broadly speaking, because Israel is one of the few
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high fertility, high economic productivity places in the world.
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And so they want to shit on them as the same way they want to shit on any successful group.
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I said, well, when I talk about like the what's going on deferred and then like the
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Sudan now, you know, it's like you go to a leftist and you're like, did you know that
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there is a black group being genocided right now?
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And you're like, it's actually another black group.
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They care about how they can use it for their political points.
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They don't actually care about these communities or these people.
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Do you think polarization politically is going to be worse, better?
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People wonder why we are so confidently siding with the right.
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Like, we're like, oh, you're doing things that really make it hard for you.
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And it's because, one, I know that they ultimately are going to win this.
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And two, because in the future, you're going to need a side.
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And I hope I'm not being too spicy in this episode.
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I hope that our children create a future that is a little brighter than what we're describing, for the most part.
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And that they do not succumb to AI girlfriends and boyfriends, as disgusting as humans are.
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You might need to at least have artificial wombs by then.
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So, you know, they're going to need to find real breeding partners, which means we're going to need to find and convert real breeding partners into our cultural group or within our network of families do an arranged marriage for them.
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Like, you are such a romantic person who is so sweet and loving.
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I think, hopefully, I think, hopefully it will be in their denna, just, like, genetically inherited to be romantics who seek out a carbon-based partner, I hope.
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It'll be a third, and they'll have a polycule with all AIs.
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It'll be a monogamous polycule, because it will be them and their partner and then another one.
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I haven't thought about our kids being poly, and I'm going to have to, like, put on a mask of just not cringing.
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If you want to see a good poly story that I found really interesting recently, look up the wacky Portland polycule.
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Well, it likely wasn't real, but, like, it felt so real to a lot of people that they were like, oh, this must be true, because I just didn't like this.
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Yeah, it all unfolded in an Am I the Asshole post.
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So, yeah, we'll leave you with that, ladies and gentlemen, in case you're too depressed about our future.
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Yeah, actually, the people who watch this are, like, uniquely high agency, so congrats to you guys.
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We love you, but I love Malcolm more, so I'm going to start your pork chops.
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You see, this is the great thing about YouTube, looking up how to cook pork chops.
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It's a lot like pan-seared steak, is the way I'm going to do it, but with a lot of butter in the cast iron skillet, so.