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Ege Erdil

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
529 total appearances

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Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

Yeah.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

And I was frustrated with the quality of discussion that was, was happening in, on the, on the internet about the future of AI.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

And I mean, to some extent or to a very large extent, I still am.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

Yeah.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

And that's like,

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

A large part of what motivates me to do this is just like born out of frustration with bad thinking and arguments about where AI is going to go.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

I think the core point here is just the value of AI automation and deployment is just extremely large, even just for workers, at least the ones that, at least after finding, there might be some kind of displacement and there might be some transition that you need to do in order to find a job that works for you.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

But otherwise, the wages could still be very high for a while at least.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

And on top of that, the gains from owning capital might be very enormous.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

And in fact, a large share of the U.S.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

population would benefit from this thing.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

They own housing, for example.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

when you have this process of broad automation and AI deployment.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

And so I think there could just be a very deep support for some of this, even when it's totally changing the nature of labor markets and the skills and occupations that are in demand.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

And actually, you say they might be more liberal about it, but they might actually, like, be less liberal.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

They might be less liberal in many ways.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

And in fact, that might be, like, more...

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

functional in this world in which you have broad AI deployment.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

We might adopt the values and norms that get developed in, say, the UAE or something, which is maybe focused a lot more on making an environment that is very conducive for AI deployment.

Dwarkesh Podcast
AGI is Still 30 Years Away โ€” Ege Erdil & Tamay Besiroglu

We might start emulating and adopting various norms like that.