Paul Kedrosky
speaker
1,259 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6d ago
Paul Kedrosky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And what we know from medicine is that for the most part, most things should be left alone.
It was the same problem with the meter studies, obviously, in terms of the duration of tasks.
And the duration of tasks where you can get to a 50% likelihood of completion.
And of course, if that was a human, using that as your benchmark, if that was a human, I would fire those guys.
Right?
That's not a useful measurement in terms of how a human might think about a productive co-worker.
I don't think about humans half the time you get shit wrong.
That would be something that would probably lead to review problems at the end of the quarter or year.
What's the line?
Sam Harris' line, this is playing tennis without an ad.
It's just this...
Right.
And the problem, of course, is this all becomes a bit facile and glib and everything else in terms of the arguments being made.
But it has spillover consequences in the real world, which is the unfortunate thing, is that let's follow the logic forward.
If my job is I'm selling tokens and tokens, I need to sell more tokens rather than less because I have to pay the nut on some fixed obligation.
Right.
Well, I'm going to construct more data centers and construct more larger data centers.
And you end up with these massive mega projects like this controversial one that Kevin O'Leary has been promoting.
Right, north of Salt Lake City.
That in the limit might be the size of Manhattan or larger, as people point out.
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