Reid Hoffman
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Yeah, like ignorance is good. Right. And when you look at it and you say, well, what happened with the creation of all of these information technologies and so forth? And the answer is, it's actually a little bit like I'm more a fan of Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death. It's more Aldous Huxley, but neither of those dystopias played out.
We have enormous amount of individual empowerment and that individual empowerment allows us to learn things, explore, say things as part of the creation of bold new things, which also creates a lot of misinformation and other kinds of stuff that we're still sorting our way through. And what is the way that we do that? How do we sort to truth? We have.
We have enormous amount of individual empowerment and that individual empowerment allows us to learn things, explore, say things as part of the creation of bold new things, which also creates a lot of misinformation and other kinds of stuff that we're still sorting our way through. And what is the way that we do that? How do we sort to truth? We have.
We have enormous amount of individual empowerment and that individual empowerment allows us to learn things, explore, say things as part of the creation of bold new things, which also creates a lot of misinformation and other kinds of stuff that we're still sorting our way through. And what is the way that we do that? How do we sort to truth? We have.
panels of expert people who were involved in the institutions, part of the reason why we like classic journalism in various ways, why we like scientific method, why we like courtrooms and juries, is we have panels of people who kind of work through and try to help us get through that individual, like, I know what's true.
panels of expert people who were involved in the institutions, part of the reason why we like classic journalism in various ways, why we like scientific method, why we like courtrooms and juries, is we have panels of people who kind of work through and try to help us get through that individual, like, I know what's true.
panels of expert people who were involved in the institutions, part of the reason why we like classic journalism in various ways, why we like scientific method, why we like courtrooms and juries, is we have panels of people who kind of work through and try to help us get through that individual, like, I know what's true.
But the actual, just all the technologies, was individual empowerment, not individual disempowerment.
But the actual, just all the technologies, was individual empowerment, not individual disempowerment.
But the actual, just all the technologies, was individual empowerment, not individual disempowerment.
The way we formulate most of our beliefs, knowledge, et cetera, is through network of information we live in. And so what we do is we try to formulate networks of trust. The most simple one is friends, communities we live in and so forth. Part of how we get to more healthy societies is having networks of trust. And technologies can help us do that and help us form new networks of trust.
The way we formulate most of our beliefs, knowledge, et cetera, is through network of information we live in. And so what we do is we try to formulate networks of trust. The most simple one is friends, communities we live in and so forth. Part of how we get to more healthy societies is having networks of trust. And technologies can help us do that and help us form new networks of trust.
The way we formulate most of our beliefs, knowledge, et cetera, is through network of information we live in. And so what we do is we try to formulate networks of trust. The most simple one is friends, communities we live in and so forth. Part of how we get to more healthy societies is having networks of trust. And technologies can help us do that and help us form new networks of trust.
Here's the blue answer. Here's the red answer. There's a lot of blue people, a lot of red people. Here's what each of them would say. Here's what the arguments for or against on each one. The real important thing is we're all exposed to that. If you're exposed to just the blue, that's a problem. If you're exposed to just red, that's a problem.
Here's the blue answer. Here's the red answer. There's a lot of blue people, a lot of red people. Here's what each of them would say. Here's what the arguments for or against on each one. The real important thing is we're all exposed to that. If you're exposed to just the blue, that's a problem. If you're exposed to just red, that's a problem.
Here's the blue answer. Here's the red answer. There's a lot of blue people, a lot of red people. Here's what each of them would say. Here's what the arguments for or against on each one. The real important thing is we're all exposed to that. If you're exposed to just the blue, that's a problem. If you're exposed to just red, that's a problem.
Part of what we're confronting as we try to regain or keep an American soul is we got to engage and we got to understand what this stuff is because it's not that either side is completely Looney Tunes. Now, some stuff I think is Looney Tunes.
Part of what we're confronting as we try to regain or keep an American soul is we got to engage and we got to understand what this stuff is because it's not that either side is completely Looney Tunes. Now, some stuff I think is Looney Tunes.
Part of what we're confronting as we try to regain or keep an American soul is we got to engage and we got to understand what this stuff is because it's not that either side is completely Looney Tunes. Now, some stuff I think is Looney Tunes.
Why would you want an AI watching kids? You can't watch your kid all the time. And by the way, in some sense, you shouldn't. No, no, they need some anonymity. But say, for example, the AI is watching kids. Oh, wait, the kid's getting into the drawer that has the rat poison in it.