Alex Hormozi

But beyond that, you often risk more by not adopting new technology than by fearing the potential downside that a small percentage of people experience.

So some people are like, what about AI safety and all these different things?

I'm worried that AI is going to take my credit card and go spend it.

Of course, there's weird edge cases where someone gave too many permissions to an agent and they didn't have enough guardrails installed.

But it's like saying, I got hacked on the internet, so I should never use the internet again.

It's not good reasoning.

Right.

And so why don't more people adopt AI?

Well, the reason is more like complacency.

Right.

There's a short term cost that you have to incur in order to learn a new thing, period.

So it's just like training an employee.

If you're thinking to yourself, well, I don't want to train this employee because it's going to take me time to do that when I could be doing the work.

It's like, yeah, but as soon as you train them, then they can do the work forever.

right?

It makes sense to do it.

But when you think too short term, which most humans do, then you end up losing to people who can think even a little bit more long term.

And I will repeat this tweet that I've said before, because I think it's so relevant right now.

It takes about 20 hours to become proficient in any new skill, but people delay the first hour decades.

And so I promise you, if you take a weekend and say, Saturday, Sunday, I'm going to sit in front of this computer, I'm going to figure out how to do that.