Krystal Ball
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44,786 appearances
237 recordings
6 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 3d ago
Krystal Ball’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so I do think that they have somewhat of a motivation, which should make you kind of hopeful that maybe it will actually happen because it does, in a certain sense, serve the bottom line for the industry.
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So, you know, there may be sort of a mutually beneficial thing there where we don't all end up going extinct.
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And they also end up with their profit margins.
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Now, there are deeper questions here about even where the technology is today.
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And if you do have the adoption at the level that it's at, are you going to have significant job displacement?
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I think that's another significant question.
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But the approach that Jensen is talking about here and that we're discussing right now is much closer to what the Chinese have done, where they haven't fixated on this, you know, can we have this bizarre, dystopian, transhuman system?
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you know, interstellar future and more like, hey, can we make our factories a little more productive?
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You know, can we actually deploy the technology and focus on the application layer in terms of how you're interacting with it, how it's impacting your life?
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That's been more of their focus.
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And so that is, you know, that is effectively what Bernie's bill would mandate is, OK, we're going to stop here.
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And the technology already is
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pretty good, is capable of a lot of things.
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It's already starting to creep into our economy in different ways.
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Can we stop here and figure out what to do with this technology and how to keep it safe?
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And Trump has decided that his presidency, which is already a mess, depends on keeping the market churning.
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The one thing that's going up is the stock market, and he's very dedicated to making sure that the good times don't stop.
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So that's why he continues to be adamantly opposed to anything, because he worries that once you take the hypothetical superintelligence, transhumanist, replace all of human labor—
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story off the table that that could cause a market collapse, which, by the way, it could.
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It definitely
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