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Hank Green

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

How do you think about that, right?

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

If you want to have all this impact and now you have a little bit of insulation both from the incentives of capitalism and from the need to make money because there's a new donor class unlocked, how do you think about, okay, now we got to go fight the slot machine?

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

We have to compete with what exists.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

I find myself not that way.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Not about the slop.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

I'm worried about AI.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

I'm worried about AI in a bunch of different ways.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

The biggest thing I'm worried about AI is that every time something big happens with AI, no one thought that it was going to happen.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Everybody thought we were going to fall in love with AI, but nobody thought that it was going to be so nice to you that you'd go crazy.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Nobody predicted AI psychosis, like sycophancy-induced psychosis.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Yeah.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

And, you know, that keeps happening.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

And so I think that, like, we're focused on the wrong problems.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

And so the thing that I'm mostly worried about is that it's going to be bad in a way that we don't predict, which is exactly what the social internet did.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

So that will be a surprise.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

But whatever it is will be surprising.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

So I'm worried about society.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Here's what I think.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

coming into it from the side.

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Hank Green lets loose on YouTube, billionaires, and algorithms

Why is slop slop?