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What I think about as you talk about this is, I don't know if you saw this, they asked all the heads of the AI labs, like Demis and Sam Altman and Dario, just like, okay, if everybody agreed to slow down and stop this stuff, would you do it?

And they all said, yep.

Which says a lot about just like they're all like freaked out a bit about how fast everything's going, how much is changing.

And then there's the reality of, but that is not going to happen because the game theory of it all is it doesn't work.

You can't slow down because no one will actually slow down.

Whoever doesn't has a huge advantage.

And so I think it's just a big part of this insight is just like this is happening and there's nothing you can do to slow it down or stop it.

And you could either try to pretend like it's no big deal and it's going to be all right.

Or you could, as you said, get over this hump of just like, OK, I need to lean into this and see see what I can do.

That is a really empowering point to make there, that this is not forever, that it's a couple of years potentially.

Maybe, I don't know, it could be a little bit longer, but it's not a forever thing where you have to do this.

You have to lock in and sacrifice forever.