David Duvenaud

But it just seems like it's very scary to be this sort of useless head of state of this giant machine economy that you don't understand.

Everyone involved in setting courses, running things, the government,

doesn't necessarily share your cultural point of view or even think that you deserve good outcomes in the long run more than some much more interesting, powerful, charismatic beings that are now sort of competing with culturally.

So again, I don't have a slam dunk story for how the humans end up not capturing some small ranch forever.

That's plausible.

It just seems like we'll be in a very vulnerable position.

Yeah.

So one of them is just humans not being that close to the action or knowing what's going on.

And maybe a concrete example today is if I'm an average Joe and I think like actually AI is going to be the next big thing and I really want to invest in it.

Most of the big AI companies are still private equity, right?

Like Anthropic and XAI.

And so there's actually no direct way for me to even invest in them.

And of course, like bigger investors can.

But this is a good example of like no one's making this happen.

It just happens that our institutions...

marginalize almost everyone from participating in like one of the biggest wealth creation events in human history.

So again, AI advice, helping you avoid these situations is like maybe the thing that keeps us safe.

But again, there's just going to be incentives for the people who are actually creating the, or like the, not people, the AIs that are creating the wealth just naturally are going to form these sort of like local bubbles of enrichment, which will be hard for the larger, like massive unproductive humanity to participate in.

Yeah.

And that's exactly what I was thinking of when I was referring to these like sort of bubbles of wealth creation is like also all these new beings.