Jasmine Sun
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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Yeah, it's fascinating because just on a very personal level, when I talk to people at these companies, I just think like, man, if I thought this thing might have a 10% chance of killing us all or taking everybody's job, I wouldn't work on it.
I personally could not morally justify it.
taking that chance and and when i talk to people who are not in the san francisco ai world they feel like i do they're just like why would you do it and i think there are basically three rough buckets of rationales that i hear from people um or that i hear between the lines from people um
One is this sort of sense of techno-determinism.
Superintelligence is going to be built, inevitably.
There is no way it's not going to happen.
If it happens, I want to be part of it.
I want to make my money from it.
I want to maybe make it happen in the least bad way.
I think that's a super common answer.
Another is this technology...
might kill us all, but it also might be really amazing.
It might produce super abundance for everybody.
We might be immortal.
It might double everyone's lifespans, cure all diseases, bring the cost of every consumer good, housing, energy, whatever, to near zero.
And that would be utopia.
And
So I think all the time to that anecdote that I think SBF said on a podcast where
Yeah, Sam Bankman-Fried said on a podcast where it was like, if you could flip a coin and it was 51% odds, you would double the total amount of like human welfare and 49% chance everyone dies.
Would you flip the coin?
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