Mo Gawdat
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And I remember, we didn't put it in the film, but I said 10 to 20% is Russian roulette, right?
That's actually 16% is Russian roulette, right?
Now,
In that world, however, I believe that's humanity's salvation.
Because if you look at every problem we have today, it's not because of abundant intelligence.
It's because of lack of intelligence.
I think the way you look at it, if you allow me, Steve, is that if you have no intelligence at all, you have no too slightly negative impact on the world, right?
If your intelligence is limited.
The more intelligent you become, the more you contribute positively to the world.
Until a moment where you're so intelligent to become the president of the United States, right?
But so misled to maybe set your targets wrong or to refuse or to set your target wrong and achieve them.
You know, disconnected from the overall long-term benefit of your nation or your human nation, if you want, that you start to make decisions that are not intelligent at all.
This doesn't last because if you go beyond that into higher levels of intelligence, most of the super intelligent people that you ever worked with will not need to break any rules or hurt anyone to become successful.
Right.
I usually cite Larry Page, who is in my mind, one of the most intelligent people I've ever interacted with.
And Larry used to call it the toothbrush test.
He says, why would you need to compete on another photo sharing app when if you find the major problem and solve it really well, like a toothbrush.
So people use you quite, you know, twice a day.
you're bound to make a lot of money.
You don't have to compete with anyone.