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Reid Hoffman

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

That we're not paying or doing anything. And this is where the term Luddite comes from because Ludd was like, this is the destruction of our way of life. This is the destruction of our industry. We need to bomb the power looms. We need to kill the factory owners because this is going to change everything. And it did, of course, because now home weaving is a hobby. Yeah. There's some Etsy in this.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

That we're not paying or doing anything. And this is where the term Luddite comes from because Ludd was like, this is the destruction of our way of life. This is the destruction of our industry. We need to bomb the power looms. We need to kill the factory owners because this is going to change everything. And it did, of course, because now home weaving is a hobby. Yeah. There's some Etsy in this.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

That we're not paying or doing anything. And this is where the term Luddite comes from because Ludd was like, this is the destruction of our way of life. This is the destruction of our industry. We need to bomb the power looms. We need to kill the factory owners because this is going to change everything. And it did, of course, because now home weaving is a hobby. Yeah. There's some Etsy in this.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

There was still some business, but the production of all the clothing that we are all wearing here, none of this is the home weaving. But without embracing that power loom, without embracing that part of the industrial revolution, we don't have a middle class. We don't have clothing that everyone can wear and we can't clothe the world. And new industries are created.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

There was still some business, but the production of all the clothing that we are all wearing here, none of this is the home weaving. But without embracing that power loom, without embracing that part of the industrial revolution, we don't have a middle class. We don't have clothing that everyone can wear and we can't clothe the world. And new industries are created.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

There was still some business, but the production of all the clothing that we are all wearing here, none of this is the home weaving. But without embracing that power loom, without embracing that part of the industrial revolution, we don't have a middle class. We don't have clothing that everyone can wear and we can't clothe the world. And new industries are created.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

And he said, OK, that industry massively transformed. It was suffering and pain for the people in that industry. Part of the reason why there was a rebellion around it. If the Luddites had won, England would have never had an empire. England never would have technologically progressed. It would have been other places that did that.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

And he said, OK, that industry massively transformed. It was suffering and pain for the people in that industry. Part of the reason why there was a rebellion around it. If the Luddites had won, England would have never had an empire. England never would have technologically progressed. It would have been other places that did that.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

And he said, OK, that industry massively transformed. It was suffering and pain for the people in that industry. Part of the reason why there was a rebellion around it. If the Luddites had won, England would have never had an empire. England never would have technologically progressed. It would have been other places that did that.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Their children, their grandchildren only had a future by embracing the power loom.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Their children, their grandchildren only had a future by embracing the power loom.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Their children, their grandchildren only had a future by embracing the power loom.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

All of a sudden, telegram now means that information can transit at super fast speeds, that it's not controlled through the people who control either the printing press or the messages by which the printed messages get there, whether it's government sources. security, or other kinds of things. So we are the current channel distributors of information.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

All of a sudden, telegram now means that information can transit at super fast speeds, that it's not controlled through the people who control either the printing press or the messages by which the printed messages get there, whether it's government sources. security, or other kinds of things. So we are the current channel distributors of information.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

All of a sudden, telegram now means that information can transit at super fast speeds, that it's not controlled through the people who control either the printing press or the messages by which the printed messages get there, whether it's government sources. security, or other kinds of things. So we are the current channel distributors of information.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

And so the people who are doing it now have a change of who has power for the immediate information. So, oh, this is bad. This is a destruction of society. You can't cross-check it. You can't look at it. The current institutions of knowledge and truth should be the ones who are doing it. And so again, resistance.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

And so the people who are doing it now have a change of who has power for the immediate information. So, oh, this is bad. This is a destruction of society. You can't cross-check it. You can't look at it. The current institutions of knowledge and truth should be the ones who are doing it. And so again, resistance.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

And so the people who are doing it now have a change of who has power for the immediate information. So, oh, this is bad. This is a destruction of society. You can't cross-check it. You can't look at it. The current institutions of knowledge and truth should be the ones who are doing it. And so again, resistance.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

And every new technological thing, especially around information, but not only information, causes that, no, no, no, we should stay with where we are, not go to the new one. And by the way, you can always identify all the problems with the new one, especially at the very beginning. Because by the way, we haven't remodified it.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

And every new technological thing, especially around information, but not only information, causes that, no, no, no, we should stay with where we are, not go to the new one. And by the way, you can always identify all the problems with the new one, especially at the very beginning. Because by the way, we haven't remodified it.