Dylan Patel

I think if we didn't have the AI boom, the US probably would be behind China and no longer the world hegemon by the end of the decade, if not sooner.

I think most people would have agreed with that.

And a world where the US is not the hegemon is a bad one for Americans, at least.

You know, I'm sort of like a bald eagle, like carrying like American.

I'm like, it's bad for the world.

But you know, like that we're not the world hegemon because then we can't spread freedom.

Without AI, we're definitely just going to lose.

Our supply chains are slower.

They cost too much.

Our debt is unsustainable.

Our economy is not growing fast enough to maintain the level of debt.

We're over-consuming relative to what we produce.

The financialization, there's all this dearth in the US in terms of social instability, partially because of income inequality, but also largely because of the visual effects

nature of income inequality and the tendency of people to flaunt their wealth more because of social media and how that hacks people's brains and then also like because the algorithm serves people different content we're drifting further and further apart in culture right monoculture of everyone watching the same movies in the 50s and 40s and 30s versus like now you and i are pretty similar and our feeds are completely different so think about someone who's not in this world

Their feed is like insanely different.

Our memes are different.

I think the US would literally fall apart if we don't do something.

And by do something, I mean like AI has to dramatically accelerate GDP growth.

Because once you start talking about dividing the pie, you're screwed.

It has to be growing the pie.