Dwarkesh

You would think that people could just ask, hey, super intelligent AI, where does this lead?

Or what happens?

Or how is this going to affect human flourishing?

And then it says, oh yeah, this is terrible for human flourishing.

You should do this other thing instead.

And...

This gets back to kind of this question of mistake theory versus conflict theory in politics.

If we know with certainty, because the AI tells us that this is just a stupid way to do everything, is less efficient, makes people miserable, is that enough to get the political will to actually do the UBI or not?

Yeah, but I feel like Larry Summers, the president would just say, I don't trust him.

Maybe he doesn't trust him because he's a liberal.

Maybe it's because he trusts Peter Navarro or whoever his pro-tariff guy is more.

I feel like if it's literally the super intelligent AI that is never wrong, then, like—

We have solved some of these coordination problems.

It's not you're asking Larry Summers, I'm asking Peter Navarro.

It's everybody goes to the super intelligent AI, asks it to tell us the exact shape of the future that happens in this case.

And I'm going to say we all believe it, although I can imagine people getting really conspiratorial about it and this not working.

I mean, then there are all of these other questions like, can we just enhance ourselves till we have IQ 300 and it's just as obvious to us as it is to super intelligent AI?

These are some of the reasons that kind of paradoxically, in our scenario, we discuss all of the big,

I don't want to call this a little question.

It's obviously very important.