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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You know, Spotify is not an online music store.
It's something else.
And right now, you know, those questions, you don't even know what the question is after it's been asked and you've built a billion dollar thing that lots of people use.
Because, like, obviously Spotify look crazy and people look crazy and Airbnb look crazy.
But that's the sort of, I think, the way to get at what this means is you have to get past we do the old stuff but more.
and you have to get to what do you do that's different that's because of this what is this change what wasn't possible before what gets unlocked as opposed to just doing the old thing but more of it yeah just to support this kind of general theme you have of it's like we don't know what is going to happen like this is unprecedented if you if you were to zoom out like a few years ago
It's almost like you didn't realize, you didn't realize it was boring manual labor that could be automated.
You thought it was something else.
It's funny.
I mean, I was looking at this as whole, there's a sort of US government called own data set called own edge or something like that.
which tries to kind of analyze every single job and then people try and kind of score it.
And they try and say, well, you know, this profession is X or Y percent exposed to AI and AI can do Z percent of it today.
I think this is just the most ridiculous bunch of deluded horseshit.
And there's two reasons for this.
The first reason is that this is like, ironically, this is the logical systems problem, the expert systems problem.
The problem with expert systems is, for anyone who doesn't know, you try to recognize a picture of a cat, and so you start building up logical steps.
So you'd make an age detector, and then you make a fur detector, and you make an eye detector, and you make an ear detector.
And 15 years later, you've got 700 steps, and it doesn't work.
And this is what happens when you try and look at a profession and sort of break it down by which bits can be automated and which can't.
You can't describe a profession like that.
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