Chris Best

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.

We're not going to play the same game as that thing.

What I think we can do is we can give people a real alternative and we can say there is a different, you know, you can take back your mind.

The point of media is not only to get what you want, it's to learn what to want.

It's to participate in culture with other people.

It's to act back on the world.

I think that thing can be in the moment less compelling, but in the long run is much more compelling.

And I think there's a flywheel effect where as more people choose that,

as you can kind of see what happens when people choose that, and as those people get sort of richer and better lives, you can create a real alternative.

And I don't think that it will be necessarily economically smaller than the bad version.