Robert Wright
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595 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
Robert Wright’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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you know, that we are not secretly uh developing some killer AI thing that's gonna give us global dominance and and and and
You know, I mean the game you want to talk about game theoretical logic.
It is long even before AI, the smart thing for both countries to do would be say, Hey
Let's face it, we are by far the two most powerful countries in the world.
Why don't we just get together and run the fucking planet?
You know, like like let's just you know, and I and I mean, uh I'm uh you know, you wouldn't put it that way and I'm kinda half joking when I put it that way, but the logic
Uh yeah.
And and and what impedes that logic is often the political incentives of the individual players.
I mean, you know, American politicians can get mileage out of scaring us.
So they do.
And look, Sam Altman can get subsidies by scaring us.
It would be shocking if Sam Altman hadn't done this pivot, right?
Where where he starts saying, oh, China, China, China.
Of course.
He wants subsidies.
All corporations would like subsidies.
He wants the government to help to give him permission to build nuclear reactors, ideally to help pay for them.
Uh, of course.
And so, you know, there are all these incentives in domestic politics and commerce to scare people.
And in some ways
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