Joe Weisenthal
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I mean, many of them are.
But I'm always like amazed that given how much money is money on the table.
What are you doing at a university?
You're probably making 10 times.
Where did that money come from?
Just from a pure sort of history of technology standpoint, does AI feel different?
No, I've totally thought about the same thing where it just like feels like we're going to have this arms race where it's like my bot will argue with your bot.
And then the only entities that make any money are the bot makers, the bot makers themselves.
So obviously we're talking about the public sector.
We're talking about the government's role in facilitating or guiding various technologies.
But there's also just like politics, right?
Winning elections.
And the fact that, you know, as you mentioned, failures become a scandal and they're on the paper and maybe like politicians lose their jobs and then someone comes in.
When you, just in your own personal work, when you like think about this stuff, like how much do you have to calculate the reality that
one big job of politicians is to win reelection.
And that a loss of election has the potential to just take the government in 90 or 180 degree turn from whatever the previous administration at any level in any country does.
And how much do you think about that reality when you're thinking about...