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Jack Neel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
164 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

that thinks there's magic to life and you will things into existence.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And this is something that it is your logical view as well as it is the view that you want to have for humanity.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But do you think that these other individuals that have this AI doom thesis are trying to will that reality into existence?

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

It's so fascinating because with you in particular, I spoke with another AI founder about this.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

I was like, it's so interesting that Amjad's thesis is like AI won't kill us all.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Like you would assume that would be the thesis of all the billionaire AI founders.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Like, oh, it's not going to kill us all.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

It's like, oh shit, it might actually.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But it's really like they're all saying it is, but it's actually not.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

And I think the only other person that's really in the space with these individuals that has a similar thesis to you is Naval Ravikant.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

There's probably a few others that I just haven't consumed their content.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

But what's the main logical reason for it?

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Just to give people some,

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Hope, because I've had a lot of doomers on my show and I haven't had anyone in your position.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

So self-recursive improvement is kind of a fallacy to you like when it comes to things that aren't binary?

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Science used to be more spiritual, is what you're saying?

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

Yes.

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

I mean, Pythagoras, correct me if I'm wrong, he basically invented like this whole religion of numerology, right?

The a16z Show
Replit's CEO on Vibe Coding, Wealth Building, and What Most People Get Wrong About AI

and it's just like it creates this clarity and sometimes there's like really exciting ideas that comes out of that it's all about creating state changes and kind of split testing like what ideas or I guess even personalities communication styles like come out of those but do you feel like I gave you a good answer for like the doomerism question I really did want to touch on the cult but