Jasmine Sun
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827 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Mar 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Jasmine Sun’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It is cool.
But when you ask a lot of people in the tech industry what their utopia looks like, they'll say things like, we have UBI, so no one has to work anymore.
We're all immortal, and we've discovered all of math and physics.
And if you do the polling on UBI and immortality, neither are especially popular with the American public.
I think
I mean, it's been pulled.
You can look it up.
If you ask people what they want AI to do for them, it's not necessarily having Terence Tao in your pocket.
It's not disproving math, right?
They want things to be cheaper.
They want to be healthier.
They want to not do crappy work so they have more time for the stuff they like.
But I think it is genuinely true that the stuff that is really cool and also that is oftentimes technically easier to solve, like math, is not what most people want from this technology.
And I think it's also true that it's just literally...
technically harder to cure cancer than it is, it turns out, to prove math theorems.
And the other thing that I hear from the public when I talk about the cancer cures is, yeah, but are they going to just use it for themselves?
Is Peter Thiel or whoever just going to buy himself immortality?
Am I going to be able to afford immortality?
Yeah, again, I think of a, you know, a lot of these people have been AI researchers for their entire careers, maybe before that they were physics PhDs or they were doing quant trading, which are all these kinds of jobs that are fairly, they're IC jobs or individual contributors where you're not necessarily working in big teams.
There's not a lot of politicking and relational work.
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