Daniel Kokotajlo

Good luck convincing them to slow down.

Okay, and then there's distributing political power if there's an intelligence explosion.

From the perspective of...

the welfare of citizens or something, one idea we were just discussing a second ago is how should you do redistribution?

Yeah.

It seems from right now, the president could go to Larry Summers or Jason Furman or something.

And just ask, hey, are tariffs a good idea?

Is even my goal with tariffs best achieved by the way I'm doing tariffs?

And they'd, like, get a pretty good answer.

But just to riff on proscriptive ideas...

There's one thing where we try to protect jobs instead of just spreading the wealth that automation creates.

Another is to spread the wealth using existing social programs or creating new bespoke social programs where Medicaid is some double digit percent of GDP right now.

And you just say, well, Medicaid should continue to stay 20 percent of GDP or something.

And the worry there is.

selfishly from a human perspective is you'll get locked into the kinds of goods and services that Medicaid procures rather than the crazy technology that will be around, the crazy goods and services that will be around after AI world.

And another reason why UBI seems like a better approach than making some bespoke social program where you make the same dialysis machine in the year 2050 even though you've got ASI or something.

Okay, we've been talking about what we're going to do about people.

The thing worth noting about the future is that most of the people who will ever exist are going to be digital.

And...

Look, I think factory farming is, like, incredibly bad.