Mark Zuckerberg
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Well, I guess if you look at the history of all this stuff, my understanding is like 100 years ago, I don't know if this was 100 or 150 years ago, but it was like at some point not too far along in the grand scheme of things. Like the vast majority of people in society were farmers, right? Because they kind of needed to be in order to create enough food for everyone to survive, right?
And then we turn that into an industrial process. And now it's like 2% of society are farmers, and we get all the food that we need. So what did that free up everyone else to do? Some of them went on to do other things that are sort of like creative pursuits or cultural pursuits or other jobs. And then some percent of it just went towards recreation. Right.
And then we turn that into an industrial process. And now it's like 2% of society are farmers, and we get all the food that we need. So what did that free up everyone else to do? Some of them went on to do other things that are sort of like creative pursuits or cultural pursuits or other jobs. And then some percent of it just went towards recreation. Right.
And then we turn that into an industrial process. And now it's like 2% of society are farmers, and we get all the food that we need. So what did that free up everyone else to do? Some of them went on to do other things that are sort of like creative pursuits or cultural pursuits or other jobs. And then some percent of it just went towards recreation. Right.
So I think generally people just don't work as many hours today as they did when back when everyone needed to farm in order to have enough food for everyone to survive. So. I think that trend is sort of played out as technology has grown. And so my guess is that like the percent of people who will be doing stuff that's like
So I think generally people just don't work as many hours today as they did when back when everyone needed to farm in order to have enough food for everyone to survive. So. I think that trend is sort of played out as technology has grown. And so my guess is that like the percent of people who will be doing stuff that's like
So I think generally people just don't work as many hours today as they did when back when everyone needed to farm in order to have enough food for everyone to survive. So. I think that trend is sort of played out as technology has grown. And so my guess is that like the percent of people who will be doing stuff that's like
physically required for humanity to survive will get to be smaller and smaller as it has. More people will dedicate themselves to kind of creative and artistic and cultural pursuits. I think that's generally good. I think the number of hours in a week that someone will have to work in order to be able to get by will probably continue to shrink.
physically required for humanity to survive will get to be smaller and smaller as it has. More people will dedicate themselves to kind of creative and artistic and cultural pursuits. I think that's generally good. I think the number of hours in a week that someone will have to work in order to be able to get by will probably continue to shrink.
physically required for humanity to survive will get to be smaller and smaller as it has. More people will dedicate themselves to kind of creative and artistic and cultural pursuits. I think that's generally good. I think the number of hours in a week that someone will have to work in order to be able to get by will probably continue to shrink.
Um, yet I think people who are super engaged in what they do are going to be able to work really hard and accomplish way more than they ever could before because they have like this unimaginable leverage from, from having a lot more technology. So I think that that, if you just like fast forwarded or extrapolated out the, the historical technological trend is what you'd get.
Um, yet I think people who are super engaged in what they do are going to be able to work really hard and accomplish way more than they ever could before because they have like this unimaginable leverage from, from having a lot more technology. So I think that that, if you just like fast forwarded or extrapolated out the, the historical technological trend is what you'd get.
Um, yet I think people who are super engaged in what they do are going to be able to work really hard and accomplish way more than they ever could before because they have like this unimaginable leverage from, from having a lot more technology. So I think that that, if you just like fast forwarded or extrapolated out the, the historical technological trend is what you'd get.
I think the question is what you raised, which is, is this qualitatively a different type of thing that somehow, um, obsolete people. But I just think when you're asking that, it's just important to remind ourselves that at every step along the way of human progress and technology, people thought that the technology that we were developing was gonna obsolete people.
I think the question is what you raised, which is, is this qualitatively a different type of thing that somehow, um, obsolete people. But I just think when you're asking that, it's just important to remind ourselves that at every step along the way of human progress and technology, people thought that the technology that we were developing was gonna obsolete people.
I think the question is what you raised, which is, is this qualitatively a different type of thing that somehow, um, obsolete people. But I just think when you're asking that, it's just important to remind ourselves that at every step along the way of human progress and technology, people thought that the technology that we were developing was gonna obsolete people.
So maybe this time it's really different, but I would guess that what'll happen is that the technology will get integrated into everything that we do, which again is why I think it's really important that it's open source and that it's widely available so that way it's not just one company or one government kind of monopolizing the whole thing.
So maybe this time it's really different, but I would guess that what'll happen is that the technology will get integrated into everything that we do, which again is why I think it's really important that it's open source and that it's widely available so that way it's not just one company or one government kind of monopolizing the whole thing.
So maybe this time it's really different, but I would guess that what'll happen is that the technology will get integrated into everything that we do, which again is why I think it's really important that it's open source and that it's widely available so that way it's not just one company or one government kind of monopolizing the whole thing.
Um, and I'd guess that if we do it in that way, we'll all just kind of have superpowers is my, is my guess. Um, rather than it, it's sort of. creating some kind of a runaway thing.