David Pearce
speaker
14,416 appearances
53 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 18 Sep
David Pearce’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Why would we continue to license this from you at at huge money?
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They're stuck in this weird mutually assured destruction, but it's all dying anyway, sort of moment that just strikes me as very complicated.
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But the other thing I want to say, and then we should actually take a break here because we have other stuff to talk about, is that there is going to be someone at Google who is listening to this and thinking, God, what a great case Neil I just made for why we should resurrect Google Plus.
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And I want to tell you don't do that.
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Don't resurrect Google Plus or Google Buzz or Google Wave or any of the other times you have kind of sort of tried to do this thing.
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Neil's right, but you Google can't do it.
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So stop trying.
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Google Buzz riffs.
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It is pure dead internet theory stuff.
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You get you get bots that you get bots on Reddit that make bot stuff on Google happen.
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The Google stuff sends you back to the bots.
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The bots have more incentive to post bot things that go back to Google.
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Like it is just it's a death spiral of AI, everything all the way down.
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But right now,
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It works.
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There are a lot of corners of Reddit that are still really great, but uh th there's a lot of stats out there about how much of both Google search and Reddit activity is commerce-based.
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And boy, can I tell you that everybody trying to do anything in the AI world is going to desperately try to destroy that with optimization and bots.
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It is just, it is just gonna happen.
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Oh, that kind of smoking.
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Yeah.
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