Hank Green

And it turns out figuring out how to structure your database wasn't that important.

what was important was, you know, making something beautiful and useful.

And that will still, like, they still won't be able to do that.

And I feel like they might, and I feel like that might be a somewhat stable circumstance.

I'm not saying like a hundred years from now, but like for a while, I think that will be a somewhat stable circumstance where we're actually making something good that, this is the other thing, if it's cheap and easy to make, everyone will be making it and we will immediately rebel against it because that's how art works.

You know, when stuff becomes commoditized, it's a commodity and we don't love it anymore.

All right.

I'm going to complicate this in three distinct ways.

Well, first, I'm going to agree with you.

The number of CEOs who come on the show and they're like, yes, I'm a billionaire because I made a view of a publicly available database that you could look at on your phone.

And I'm like, yeah, what are you going to do when the AI reads the database for you?

And they're like, good question.

And that's almost every other episode of the show at this point, right?

So I agree with you there.

There's something about that where we're changing how that whole economy works.

The part where everyone is going to just –

understand that they're looking at the AI slop and then like make another choice is complicated by your own thesis at the beginning of the show, which is that we have seeded control, right?

I can't tell TikTok, don't show me the slop.

I absolutely cannot tell Instagram.

But every minute that someone spends watching the cat doing the electro breaker dance, and I've spent a lot of those minutes, my man, is a minute I'm not watching you.