Haseeb Qureshi

So obviously it's ultimately for humans in the sense that the human is the end recipient of value from what's happening on the blockchain.

But the idea that as a human being, the right way that you are going to interact with the blockchain is by you moving your mouse, clicking on the metamask extension, typing in your little password, you know, going in there and like clicking the buttons and manually approving the gas.

That stuff is obviously so alien.

to human beings and the way in which we think about money and finance and accomplishing our financial goals.

It's a little bit like, imagine that with the banking system, human beings had to write their SWIFT codes.

SWIFT was not made for humans.

SWIFT was made for an interbank communication protocol.

It's not designed for you.

Now, if you had to interact with it, I guess you would,

you know, if you had no other choice.

But it's clearly not the affordance that most human beings are looking for in their own intuitions about how to use money.

So my claim is that, okay, we live today in the world where this stuff is totally, this stuff is totally disintermediated.

The human is interacting directly with the machine.

And this is bad.

It's bad in the same way that we think today about cars, right?

In 10 years, we're going to look back with absolute horror that we ever thought it was a good idea to have apes, you know, using their hands to manipulate these two-ton death machines, you know, driving down the highway while drunk, half asleep, you know, being ill, whatever state of mind you're in.

Yeah, you're probably fine.

Appear barbaric.

Right, it's gonna seem absurd that we ever thought like that was cool, that was just fine.

And like, yeah, people die on the road all the time.