Aravind Srinivas

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3,937 appearances 8 recordings 7 series first heard Jun 2024 last heard 7 Jul

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The Joe Rogan Experience · #2521 - Aravind Srinivas · 1 Jul 2026 podcast

And a lot of conventional answers is like, oh, we'll just become managers of the AIs.

Don't worry.

But if the price of cognition is the price of compute, managing an AI is also pretty much doable by the AI itself.

Because the bottleneck is not like unique cognition capability there.

So the value of the society will automatically shift to what is scarce.

And fundamentally, what has been scarce is asking high-quality questions about things.

Okay, what if we just completely spend all our time understanding the past?

That's an interesting endeavor.

It was not cool before, but it'll become cool again.

And we usually used to view archaeology or history as not something that's worth having a career in because it doesn't pay well.

But what if it actually starts paying you well a lot more?

Now that actual knowledge works being done by AIs and it's all mundane and the price of that is basically zero.

Let's say we have robots to go do that.

But you're still going to be the one probing because you have incomplete information all the time.

Even the idea of, okay, let's go explore this particular area.

Let's go understand better.

Let's go try to reverse engineer this.

Let's go try to build this again.

How would it be if we wanted to do the same thing on the moon?

There are so many interesting projects to work on for us as long as we stay curious and we stay interested in a lot of things that we've done before and try to understand civilization.

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