Ezra Klein
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I'm not sure it's healthy. I'm sure it's not healthy. And even in a smaller way, there are fewer newspapers now. There are fewer stable jobs in institutional media. In many ways, it's probably more likely that you can become an independent creator, certainly than it was like 20 years ago.
I'm not sure it's healthy. I'm sure it's not healthy. And even in a smaller way, there are fewer newspapers now. There are fewer stable jobs in institutional media. In many ways, it's probably more likely that you can become an independent creator, certainly than it was like 20 years ago.
Is there a danger that the sort of way you want us to raise children is actually suffused in nostalgia for an economy, for a politics that no longer exists? It's not being deformed, it's being adapted.
Is there a danger that the sort of way you want us to raise children is actually suffused in nostalgia for an economy, for a politics that no longer exists? It's not being deformed, it's being adapted.
Well, but the idea that it would be banned was not greeted with flowers and chocolates.
Well, but the idea that it would be banned was not greeted with flowers and chocolates.
This is one of the tricky things about success right now, because visible success is almost definitionally constantly present, which is very different than the kind of success of a tremendous physics researcher whose work you can't read because it's very complicated and they're not posting a lot of memes about it. Yeah.
This is one of the tricky things about success right now, because visible success is almost definitionally constantly present, which is very different than the kind of success of a tremendous physics researcher whose work you can't read because it's very complicated and they're not posting a lot of memes about it. Yeah.
Let's talk about AI. If you ask me, do I think that by the time my three and six-year-old are in middle school, we will have figured out the smartphones and social media in schools question, I think we will. We will. But AI. Right. And it goes, for me, back to friction. What AI is... is functionally the collapse of all friction between you and any desire that can be fulfilled on a computer.
Let's talk about AI. If you ask me, do I think that by the time my three and six-year-old are in middle school, we will have figured out the smartphones and social media in schools question, I think we will. We will. But AI. Right. And it goes, for me, back to friction. What AI is... is functionally the collapse of all friction between you and any desire that can be fulfilled on a computer.
That's right. So relationships are the one I actually think about the most. I've said this many, many times before. I'm a believer in transformational artificial intelligence. I think it's coming very, very fast. If you ask me if I think we will see economic super growth anytime soon, I would say no.
That's right. So relationships are the one I actually think about the most. I've said this many, many times before. I'm a believer in transformational artificial intelligence. I think it's coming very, very fast. If you ask me if I think we will see economic super growth anytime soon, I would say no.