Alex Wissner-Gross

And of course that didn't happen.

We got the horseless carriage and cars.

So...

It's entirely possible we look back on this conversation 10, 20 years from now and laugh at ourselves at the naivete of assuming that technology would underemploy people when actually now we know, ha, that new forms of labor, new forms of individual productivity, maybe it looks like

individuals being so empowered that every individual can be in charge of their own unicorn.

A one-person unicorn is a thesis, hasn't been fully announced yet.

So maybe a bit of a sneak preview here.

I think it may be possible that 10, 15 years from now, we look back and say, gosh, there's no employment issue.

Everyone simply runs their own unicorn.

Everyone runs a one-person multi-billion dollar conglomerate.

running on top of armies, fleets of billions of agents.

That's what the future of so-called employment looks like.

So I don't know.

1,000.

Actually, that's a better number.

150,000.

150,000 is my answer.

Why?

Because 150,000 humans die every day on Earth.

And I don't see any alternative at the moment to superintelligence for how we can cure the problem of human mortality.