Benedict Evans
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1,906 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Sep 2025
last heard 4 Jun
Benedict Evans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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People lose their homes.
Meanwhile, people from the post office and people from Fujitsu are going to court and swearing there's no bugs in the system and nobody else has had this problem.
This is 1970s technology.
That's really the point, that every wave of technology comes with ways that you can ruin people's lives, either deliberately or by accident.
The whole thing of Chinese mass surveillance is deliberate.
Maybe people should go to prison, maybe not.
But we have this with every technology.
We have a bunch of ways that you can ruin people's lives, and you have to be conscious of that and also kind of not panic about it.
I don't know about that.
It's probably a little bit early yet.
He's not quite at the like, I want to be a fireman stage.
That might be a great job.
Yeah.
And certainly, you know, if I look at my career, you know, I started as an equity analyst and then I went and worked in an industry and then I was a consultant.
Like, you know, the days when you kind of knew what your career was going to be or whatever, you know, there were certainly some people where you want to be an architect, you want to be a software engineer, you know, you want to be X or Y. I don't know.
I think, you know, the only kind of thinking I have here is that you have, like, you slowly work out there's a bunch of skills that you have and there's a bunch of, like, jobs that makes you good at and then there's a bunch of stuff that people will pay you for.
And you want to get at least two of those and preferably all three.
Sure.
I mean, we talked about value capture.
Obviously, this is a whole... Everyone is asking... I'm not sure how many people are asking whether model labs have pricing power.
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