Derek Rydall

intelligence is sold you know tokens it's like units of intelligence units of cognition like you'll go to your little candy machine and put in a quarter and get a certain number of units of cognition and and the the the the relative value of intelligence will go to zero if we don't know ourselves better than the technology knows us

Guess who's going to be using who?

That will lead us to the biggest identity crisis humanity has ever faced.

We will in a generation and maybe sooner not actually have the cognitive capacity or agency or sovereignty to be in control of our own lives.

Thank you.

It's an honor and a pleasure to be here.

Well, yeah, I started off when I was younger.

I was a programmer and I was a nerd.

And I saw that movie War Games with Matthew Broderick.

And I remember rushing home and somehow my teenage mind thought maybe preteen mind thought it was a great idea to hack the government and start global through our new group.

You know, go figure.

And I built a program that could hack into the government.

And I was literally trying to do it.

And then I couldn't actually get through.

But I built a simulation of it.

So realistic that it freaked my mother out who thought some men in black were going to come spirit me away.

And my friends were very impressed.

And I could take apart any computer, any technological thing, put it back together.

I was very much a nerd growing up.

And then as I got, let's just say, into puberty and into high school and into girls, you know, it was more, I got into the brain.