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Guillaume Verdon

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1026 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

I know this is a controversial statement sometimes, but I think that in a sense, it's kind of a proof of stake voting, right? If you've allocated capital efficiently, you unlock more capital to allocate just because clearly you know how to allocate capital more efficiently, which is in contrast to politicians that get elected

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

I know this is a controversial statement sometimes, but I think that in a sense, it's kind of a proof of stake voting, right? If you've allocated capital efficiently, you unlock more capital to allocate just because clearly you know how to allocate capital more efficiently, which is in contrast to politicians that get elected

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

because they speak the best on TV, not because they have a proven track record of allocating taxpayer capital most efficiently. That's why I'm for capitalism over, say, giving all our money to the government and letting them figure out how to allocate it. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

because they speak the best on TV, not because they have a proven track record of allocating taxpayer capital most efficiently. That's why I'm for capitalism over, say, giving all our money to the government and letting them figure out how to allocate it. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

because they speak the best on TV, not because they have a proven track record of allocating taxpayer capital most efficiently. That's why I'm for capitalism over, say, giving all our money to the government and letting them figure out how to allocate it. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Yeah. I think a lot of people would, instead of trying to understand how the technical capital machine works and realizing they have much more agency than they think, they'd rather have this sort of victim mindset, I'm just subjected to this machine, it is oppressing me, and the successful players clearly must be evil because they've been successful at this game that I'm not successful at. But

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Yeah. I think a lot of people would, instead of trying to understand how the technical capital machine works and realizing they have much more agency than they think, they'd rather have this sort of victim mindset, I'm just subjected to this machine, it is oppressing me, and the successful players clearly must be evil because they've been successful at this game that I'm not successful at. But

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Yeah. I think a lot of people would, instead of trying to understand how the technical capital machine works and realizing they have much more agency than they think, they'd rather have this sort of victim mindset, I'm just subjected to this machine, it is oppressing me, and the successful players clearly must be evil because they've been successful at this game that I'm not successful at. But

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And I've managed to get some people that were in that mindset and make them realize how the techno capital machine works and how you can harness it for your own good and for the good of others. And by creating value, you capture some of the value you create for the world. And that sort of positive sum mindset shift is so potent. And really, that's what...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And I've managed to get some people that were in that mindset and make them realize how the techno capital machine works and how you can harness it for your own good and for the good of others. And by creating value, you capture some of the value you create for the world. And that sort of positive sum mindset shift is so potent. And really, that's what...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

And I've managed to get some people that were in that mindset and make them realize how the techno capital machine works and how you can harness it for your own good and for the good of others. And by creating value, you capture some of the value you create for the world. And that sort of positive sum mindset shift is so potent. And really, that's what...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

That's what we're trying to do by scaling EAC is sort of unlocking that higher level of agency. Like actually, you're far more in control of the future than you think. You have agency to change the world. Go out and do it. Here's permission. Each individual has agency.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

That's what we're trying to do by scaling EAC is sort of unlocking that higher level of agency. Like actually, you're far more in control of the future than you think. You have agency to change the world. Go out and do it. Here's permission. Each individual has agency.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

That's what we're trying to do by scaling EAC is sort of unlocking that higher level of agency. Like actually, you're far more in control of the future than you think. You have agency to change the world. Go out and do it. Here's permission. Each individual has agency.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Awesome. Well, so, so building technologies and building, it doesn't have to be technologies, just building in general means, you know, having agency trying to change the world by creating, let's say a company, which is a self-sustaining organism that, that, accomplishes a function in the broader techno-capital machine.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Awesome. Well, so, so building technologies and building, it doesn't have to be technologies, just building in general means, you know, having agency trying to change the world by creating, let's say a company, which is a self-sustaining organism that, that, accomplishes a function in the broader techno-capital machine.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

Awesome. Well, so, so building technologies and building, it doesn't have to be technologies, just building in general means, you know, having agency trying to change the world by creating, let's say a company, which is a self-sustaining organism that, that, accomplishes a function in the broader techno-capital machine.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

To us, that's the way to achieve change in the world that you'd like to see, rather than, say, pressuring politicians or creating non-profits that you know, nonprofits, once they run out of money, their function can no longer be accomplished.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

To us, that's the way to achieve change in the world that you'd like to see, rather than, say, pressuring politicians or creating non-profits that you know, nonprofits, once they run out of money, their function can no longer be accomplished.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#407 โ€“ Guillaume Verdon: Beff Jezos, E/acc Movement, Physics, Computation & AGI

To us, that's the way to achieve change in the world that you'd like to see, rather than, say, pressuring politicians or creating non-profits that you know, nonprofits, once they run out of money, their function can no longer be accomplished.