Cenk Uygur
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Monaco.
So maybe that's where the child eating robots are.
So, Kevin, be careful.
Yeah.
So, look, I shouldn't laugh too hard because I'm trying to answer that same question in my head.
And Stephen, it's hard to...
answer it from my perspective, because the interregnum is just unaccounted for.
So here's what I mean by that.
So even if we have Kevin's beautiful sunshine scenario, none of the robots ever eat the children.
I don't know why that keeps coming back in.
But anyway, so and we create all these wonderful jobs in some distant future.
Well, OK, yes.
But nevertheless, the truck driver and the assembly line guy and all those folks already lost their jobs.
And the guy who lost his job on an assembly line in Cleveland is not going to be able to become the engineer who figures out how to get on Mars.
So it's not that he's not capable of it.
He's just 61 years old and he can't learn a whole new profession.
So this is an unrealistic conversation.
So even if all of the wonderful scenarios about AI are true, it would take minimum 20 years to get to this place where the robots are running everything.
We all have leisure time and we just can't figure out what to do with ourselves.
And we decide how to get to Venus and Uranus and wherever else you want to go.