Mina Kimes
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But like so many of the consumer facing applications have been forced on us.
And that's before you get to even the content side of this, the slop of it, the
the actual generative output that we see.
The commercials are so stupid and they're for applications that nobody actually wants or uses.
And that kind of goes back to what I was saying.
It feels like the actual utility of what's happening is kind of out of step with the public face of it in a way that it does feel like we are just being told, like Pablo said, like, this has to work.
You have to do this.
Everyone's in it, guys, and it's too late to get out.
And these are great questions.
I'm not a builder professionally.
I'm a talker.
And so I'm going to stick with my expertise here.
I don't know if they're building it right, but I know for sure they're not talking about it well.
To use your language, Pablo,
What are they giving folks to root for?
If the idea is this has to be built, it has to be built.
And if it isn't built, the economy will crash.
But also, if it is built, as Dario Amadeus said, the CEO of Anthropic, tens of millions of people will lose their jobs.
Exactly.
Sam Altman has written essays that have said this technology is going to be so transformative and so disruptive, we need to think about universal basic income because so many people are going to be thrown out of work permanently.