Max Tegmark

And basically all the countries agree.

US, China, Russia, Ukraine, they all agree.

So instead of quibbling about the little things we don't agree on, let's start with the things we do agree on and get them done.

Instead of being so distracted by all these things we disagree on,

that Moloch wins because, frankly, Moloch going wild now, it feels like a war on life playing out in front of our eyes.

If you just look at it from space, you know, we're on this planet, beautiful, vibrant ecosystem.

Now we start chopping down everything.

Big parts of it, even though most people thought that was a bad idea.

Oh, we start doing ocean acidification, wiping out all sorts of species.

Oh, now we have all these close calls.

We almost had a nuclear war.

And we're replacing more and more of the biosphere with...

non-living things.

We're also replacing in our social lives a lot of the things which were so valuable to humanity.

A lot of social interactions now are replaced by people staring into their rectangles, right?

I'm not a psychologist.

I'm out of my depth here.

But I suspect that part of the reason why teen suicide and suicide in general in the US is at record-breaking levels is actually caused by, again, AI technologies and social media making people spend less time with actually just human interaction.

We've all seen a bunch of good-looking people in restaurants staring into the rectangles instead of looking into each other's eyes, right?

So that's also a part of the war on life that we're replacing so many really life-affirming things by technology.