Mo Gawdat
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
No, as Stephen.
Why do you still exist?
Why?
First of all, because the smartest person in the world is not the smartest at everything.
There are things that you're smarter than them at.
Okay.
Number two is because intelligence doesn't solve everything.
I mean, I make that joke all the time.
And genuinely, Einstein is my favorite physicist in history.
Not because I think what happened afterwards with, you know, Bohr and quantum physics and so on was more impactful on our understanding of the universe.
But he was so intuitive that he saw a world that we could never imagine, right?
And yet, I always say Einstein would be eaten in the jungle in three minutes.
Right.
Intelligence.
Humanity thrived not because of intelligence.
That's very arrogant.
We thrived because of our ability to hold together as a tribe.
Right.
Because our ability to exchange barter things between us.
barter things that are not always physical barter things like a hug or a connection or a feeling of safety or a you know there are so many things that we do that are not entirely built on intelligence you have to see that this view of a world where intelligence is all that matters is