Chris Best

It's creating a real alternative to some of the other ways that people feel online, where a lot of the places people spend their time online, I think, just feel like, you know, a slot machine or feel like going to a casino or feel like kind of plugging into a drug and just sort of stepping away from their life.

I mean, larger, larger in what way?

I mean, there's in population, in users, maybe in population, probably maybe in time spent in economic value.

I don't know about that.

You know, I wrote this piece called The Two Futures of Media, where I think, and I think this ties into kind of like the AI world, where one view of media is to view it as a drug, basically.

It's like, hey, media, the point of media is how I feel in the moment when I use it.

It's an escape.

It's a thing that I do to just change my current feeling or mental state.

And I think that that thing is very real.

It's a real purpose.

It's something that people really want.

And there is like a...

there is kind of a natural conclusion of that that pulls towards, you know, if you took TikTok and then you said, okay, well, it's all going to be AI generated, so it's even more compelling.

And then it's going to be, you know, you sort of like naturally pulls towards wireheading, you know, the science fiction concept of wireheading.

It's basically like, what if you could have a technology that just directly stimulates the pleasure center of your brain?

It's kind of like a, you know, like a technological drug that you just kind of like press and makes you feel happy.

That's going to be real.

Like that's, there's going to be, there already is a big segment of the world that wants that thing and is using that thing.

And there's money to be made in creating that thing.

And we are not going to replace that thing.