
#55 - Tim Urban of Wait But Why
Y Combinator Startup Podcast
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The Value of Getting Richer
If society decided that money was unattractive, working with your hands and living on as little as possible, really made you awesome. That's what all the movie characters suddenly were doing. So if you want people to obsess over AI safety, right now AI development's a big thing because getting rich is what we value. If someone comes up with a big breakthrough in AI safety and they became kind of Nobel Prize front page of Time Magazine, it'll be the coolest thing to be going into.
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