Max Tegmark

That we're fighting the wrong enemy.

It's such a fascinating battle.

It's not us versus them.

It's us versus it.

Yeah.

Have you seen the movie Needful Things?

It's a Stephen King novel.

I love Stephen King.

And Max von Sydow, Swedish actor, is playing the guy.

It's brilliant.

I just hadn't thought about that until now.

But that's the closest I've seen to a movie about Moloch.

I don't want to spoil the film for anyone who wants to watch it, but basically it's about this guy who turns out to, you can interpret him as the devil or whatever, but he doesn't actually ever go around and kill people or torture people with burning coal or anything.

he makes everybody fight each other, makes everybody fear each other, hate each other, and then kill each other.

So that's the movie about Moloch, you know?

Yes, yes.

And to not sound, so we don't sound like a bunch of kumbaya tree huggers here, right?

We're not just saying love and peace, man.

We're trying to actually help people understand the true facts about the other side and feel the compassion because the truth makes you more compassionate, right?

So that's why I really like using AI for truth-seeking technologies.