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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That I'm not really concerned about, like, what things we get to do.
We might be doing a lot more cool things for what it's worth.
Like, I don't know if anybody would be, like, coming and telling you that, oh, it's so cool to, like, open an Excel sheet every day and make financial models.
Right?
Compared to, like... There's got to be somebody out there that likes that.
I mean, there's something about, like, the task you do and what...
You get paid for what is the job title, blah, blah, blah.
And some people associate their personal worth with where they work at and how much they get paid.
And I think that thing is going to collapse in a world where the price of all that cognition is going to be the price of compute.
I think they'll find new things.
We've always gravitated towards things that are scarce because that's where the value lies.
And so if, you know, have you, one interesting analogy is
um have you do the gulf states where there's an abundance of resources and they export their resources to other states and that pays for the whole state you know how like they offer everybody um free electricity subsidized health subsidized education and like no taxes when i first went to dubai like in almost like 20 years ago
They told me people don't pay taxes here, and nobody pays for electricity here, and education is super cheap.
And I was like, wait, how is that real?
And the way that's real is that, I mean, of course, Texas also has no taxes, and any well-run state can do this.
But the way it's happening is that because the government provides you all these things, it becomes a rentier state.
You offer political acquiescence to the state.
And what ended up happening is citizens there expect the state to find them jobs, expect the state to take care of job displacement for them so they don't worry.
So it made them a little more lazy.
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