Reed Hastings

We hope you will consider it appropriately.

Your board members are willing to debate the transaction.

But unfortunately, as you would suspect as a board member, that's all I can say on the news of the week.

Well, let's think back 30,000, 40,000 years ago, and we're a bunch of Neanderthals, and we're in the entrance to our cave.

And we've been the dominant humanoid species for a couple hundred thousand years.

And the two of us look down, and we see Homo sapiens.

We're like, look at those guys.

They're so skinny.

They're hairless.

What?

They're pitiful.

But those guys were really intelligent.

and ultimately those homo sapiens dominated the Earth and killed off us Neanderthals.

So I would say intelligence per species has been highly selected for and that homo sapiens intelligence has allowed us to become the dominant species on Earth because we use our intelligence to make tools and do other things.

So I think it's a lot different than, say, mechanizing muscle power.

So if you think of bulldozers and how did that transform society, it did a lot, but it did it over 100 years.

And although muscles are important, they're not the core human attribute, thus the dislocation of the Neanderthals, which were much stronger than humans.

So if AI develops to actually be superintelligence, then it will be a lot more profound, I think, than anything else, and that we will have actually real species threats because the AI will keep getting smarter and smarter and smarter without limit.

And natural selection works quite slowly in terms of making humans more intelligent.

So then we have to sort of say, okay, how fast and how, you know, will the computers really think?