Daniel Priestley

The hard thing with your... world too, it's so quantifiable. So like there's all these metrics that you would never have had to live to live with in any other time in history. Like you on any given day can see how many subscribers, how many views, uh, you know, how many sales, like there's just the dashboard is there all the time.

The hard thing with your... world too, it's so quantifiable. So like there's all these metrics that you would never have had to live to live with in any other time in history. Like you on any given day can see how many subscribers, how many views, uh, you know, how many sales, like there's just the dashboard is there all the time.

The hard thing with your... world too, it's so quantifiable. So like there's all these metrics that you would never have had to live to live with in any other time in history. Like you on any given day can see how many subscribers, how many views, uh, you know, how many sales, like there's just the dashboard is there all the time.

And if you think about it any other time in history, when would you have had that like minute by minute feedback on how you're doing?

And if you think about it any other time in history, when would you have had that like minute by minute feedback on how you're doing?

And if you think about it any other time in history, when would you have had that like minute by minute feedback on how you're doing?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Like, you've really got to be conscious about that.

Like, you've really got to be conscious about that.

Like, you've really got to be conscious about that.

Getting back to the technology thing. You've got to realize, too, that for the last 15 years, the smartest people on the planet have been hired with one goal in mind, which is to optimize you for time on their website.

Getting back to the technology thing. You've got to realize, too, that for the last 15 years, the smartest people on the planet have been hired with one goal in mind, which is to optimize you for time on their website.

Getting back to the technology thing. You've got to realize, too, that for the last 15 years, the smartest people on the planet have been hired with one goal in mind, which is to optimize you for time on their website.

Getting you to click shit. So people who previously would have launched rockets to Mars are now optimizing algorithms so that you spend an extra 17 minutes on TikTok every day. an AI chess player, your brain cannot beat an AI algorithm designed to get you to watch TikTok videos. You can only either have it on your phone or delete it off your phone. There is no way around this.

Getting you to click shit. So people who previously would have launched rockets to Mars are now optimizing algorithms so that you spend an extra 17 minutes on TikTok every day. an AI chess player, your brain cannot beat an AI algorithm designed to get you to watch TikTok videos. You can only either have it on your phone or delete it off your phone. There is no way around this.

Getting you to click shit. So people who previously would have launched rockets to Mars are now optimizing algorithms so that you spend an extra 17 minutes on TikTok every day. an AI chess player, your brain cannot beat an AI algorithm designed to get you to watch TikTok videos. You can only either have it on your phone or delete it off your phone. There is no way around this.

We're going to have a society that goes in two directions. Because AI gives you the power to create or consume more than you intended. And we're going to have a society where a bunch of people consume way more than they intended and their life becomes very dystopian because of that.

We're going to have a society that goes in two directions. Because AI gives you the power to create or consume more than you intended. And we're going to have a society where a bunch of people consume way more than they intended and their life becomes very dystopian because of that.