Roman Yampolskiy

It had already been taken over essentially by governments and special interests and they were already manipulating the truth.

And manipulating public discourse and punishing people who stepped outside of the line.

And he felt like – and I think he's correct.

I think that he felt like if he didn't step in and allow a legitimate free speech platform, free speech is dead.

I think we were very close to that before he did that.

Yeah.

And as much as there's a lot of negative side effects that come along with that, you do have the rise of very intolerant people that have platforms now.

You have all that stuff.

But they've always existed.

And to deny them a voice I don't think makes them less strong.

I think it actually makes people less aware that they exist.

And it makes them – it stops –

all of the very valuable construction of arguments against these bad ideas.

Have you spoke to him about the dangers of AI?

I would love to know what, you know, I'm sure he's probably scaled this out in his head.

And I would like to know, like, what is his solution if he thinks there is one that's even viable?

Well, that's my hope is that it's benevolent and that it behaves like a superior intelligence, like the best case scenario for a superior intelligence.

Did you see that exercise that they did where they had three different AIs communicating with each other and they eventually started like expressing gratitude towards each other and speaking in Sanskrit and...

Yeah.

Well, that one makes me happy because it seems like they were expressing love and gratitude and they were communicating with each other.