Adam Leventhal
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what okay you so this is the second time we're talking about a book you've been hate reading in and we've only been good to recording this for 15 minutes i mean at some point i do have a problem yes this this is now an intervention like you need to be i mean also like the title of the book if anyone builds it everyone dies it's like guess how you'll never guess but that phrase appears several times in the book
It's going to take more than a Eliezer Yudkowsky book to get me off of my X risk.
I think that has actually been, and I think it has been replaced with the fear of economic doom rather than, I don't think people are worried about losing their lives because I think it's ridiculous.
I think they're worried about losing their livelihoods, which is,
which feels like it's probably going to be a theme this year.
I think, I think, I think some people are going to be, um, you know, this is where, uh, Simon last year had his six year, uh, his six year dystopian on the Butlerian jihad.
Um, so which, um, you know, it reminds me of the first time I heard of the singularity.
I'm like, I think, you know, these, uh, I, I had to look at the Butlerian jihad and yes, it's very, it's very troubling.
I think it's safe to say that we know that this year, so we had that Web3 theme in 2022.
2023 was a bit of a shoulder year.
I just don't see how anyone could be predicting anything that's not AI-related this year because it just feels like it's still on the mind.
Non-AI predictions, definitely welcome.