Ep 65: Marc Andreessen and the Case for AI Optimism
Joe Lonsdale: American Optimist
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The Permucaridox of AI
A lot of technologists are into, you know, building things and they don't necessarily like to venture too much into the political and social realm. I think a somewhat rational assumption might be that if you increase consumer surplus a lot than people will like what you've given them. And so there's no joke in the Soviet Union, which is you may not be interested in communism but communism is interested in you. You can either ignore it and hope that they don't destroy you or you can confront it and try to deal with it. But look that only as a path if they're not interest in you. If tech needs to rethink its strategy and get more politically involved from the start.
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