would you say broadly speaking it was more pessimistic in terms of the next couple years or was there some optimism there i mean divorcing it from strictly ai just the general mood it just felt

like it didn't matter it felt like these people don't matter like like they're they're they're they're scurrying around the edges of this this sort of force and you know and to the extent it matters the only way they can matter is by making things worse like like passing laws passing regulations none of which is going to actually stop any of this stuff like they like people are going to develop this in general it's like you know the the class that we talked about the past like with gun control right are you actually stopping you know who actually follows the laws not criminals that's kind of a big hole in the it is sort of argument right um and and i think that you know you can understand to what if you want to get into the psychology of folks that are there the the internet and and this sort of wave in general is increasingly divorced from the powers that be getting together in a ski town in switzerland and dictating what happens to the world and and the the power that they do have

to have to ten years that the the view on davos it used to be like the place to be and now it's like almost universally reviled uh on several continents now so certainly the power centers are shifting around

yeah i mean it's an aspect of people shifting attitudes like towards the media for example right that used to be the only way to get your word out and now when it's one of many you know there's it just sort of like there there's this withdrawal into a particular point of view and you don't want to just you don't like you don't want to be like me because you might not get invited back or you might lose your job or you might sort of xyz and and the reality is is i'm an independent actor thanks to the internet thanks to my subscribers i'm gonna go out and say what i think and do what i do and if you don't want to be back that's fine i don't need you and that i think applies to technology and a.i. generally google and facebook don't need to make b2b deals to succeed they just put their product up on the internet and that is so fundamentally disruptive yeah if you're an enterprise software go to davos i think it's i actually think it's worth the money if you're like you know like sam altman was there you know and he was uh you know his first time there there's much attack people there there's like the first time and so we were all sitting around talking but like sharing some of these observations but um you know i was at this dinner and he's like well it's my first time at davos uh i used to always say in my startup advice don't be the kind of company that goes you know don't be the sort of founder that goes to davos um but i think i actually think if you're b2b business you should go right like that yeah that was the shallow outside view that's right no but like it's business gets done there for sure uh but does is the world controlled there uh maybe it used to be maybe it still is to an extent but the sort of control is increasingly dystopian and just stopping the future and that it's a shame because the professed reasons to do that are to give people better lives and i do worry yeah i do worry that the actual outcome of people who claim to have that motivation is to actually deny people better lives in the long

run well that's a dower note to end this podcast the first of the new era the sharp tech video era but i'm glad that sharp tech was on the ground at davos and uh all star weekend for 55 year old white guys sounds like it was a success for you i hope that maybe you make it back spend more than 15 minutes at the scaramucci not gonna get i could promise well a co-host can dream you know what i mean but hey that was a great recap from start to finish and i look forward to diving into more next week we had some mailbag questions that we had to push to next week uh but until then then i hope you have a great weekend i'm excited to keep things rolling on the video front on the audio front and uh i will talk

to you next week talk to you later