Daniel Priestley
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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.
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.
And we have another group of people who create way more than they intended and their life becomes unbelievably opulent as a result. So you're going to have plenty of people who make a million dollars a month and plenty of people who need UBI just to survive and not die. And AI is going to bifurcate.
And we have another group of people who create way more than they intended and their life becomes unbelievably opulent as a result. So you're going to have plenty of people who make a million dollars a month and plenty of people who need UBI just to survive and not die. And AI is going to bifurcate.
And we have another group of people who create way more than they intended and their life becomes unbelievably opulent as a result. So you're going to have plenty of people who make a million dollars a month and plenty of people who need UBI just to survive and not die. And AI is going to bifurcate.
It'll come on.
It'll come on.
It'll come on.
Karl Marx came off the back of the Engels pause. So the origin story of socialism is a technology breakthrough that benefited those who could- What was the Engels pause? So Engels pause was from 1790 to 1840. All the economic gains went to industrialists and all the people who were from the farms- basically saw no economic gains for 50 years.
Karl Marx came off the back of the Engels pause. So the origin story of socialism is a technology breakthrough that benefited those who could- What was the Engels pause? So Engels pause was from 1790 to 1840. All the economic gains went to industrialists and all the people who were from the farms- basically saw no economic gains for 50 years.
Karl Marx came off the back of the Engels pause. So the origin story of socialism is a technology breakthrough that benefited those who could- What was the Engels pause? So Engels pause was from 1790 to 1840. All the economic gains went to industrialists and all the people who were from the farms- basically saw no economic gains for 50 years.
So you got the bifurcation of society, Charles Dickens, all that sort of stuff. And then, boom, you get Karl Marx, Gary Stevenson. And Gary Stevenson, if I take a list of Karl Marx quotes and put them up against Gary Stevenson quotes, they're the same. It's the same shit that resonated in 1840.
So you got the bifurcation of society, Charles Dickens, all that sort of stuff. And then, boom, you get Karl Marx, Gary Stevenson. And Gary Stevenson, if I take a list of Karl Marx quotes and put them up against Gary Stevenson quotes, they're the same. It's the same shit that resonated in 1840.
So you got the bifurcation of society, Charles Dickens, all that sort of stuff. And then, boom, you get Karl Marx, Gary Stevenson. And Gary Stevenson, if I take a list of Karl Marx quotes and put them up against Gary Stevenson quotes, they're the same. It's the same shit that resonated in 1840.
That would be a fun flex.
That would be a fun flex.
That would be a fun flex.