Sam Altman

Now everything was going to change.

And now I think that was a naive take.

Eventually, I think the whole economy transforms.

We'll find new things to do.

I have no worry about that.

We always find new jobs, even though every time we stare at our new technology, we assume they're all going to go away.

It's true that some jobs go away, but we find so many new things to do and hopefully so many better things to do.

I think what's going to happen is this is just the next step in a long, unfolding, exponential curve of technological progress.

They're all in the dark.

In that sense, it's more like the industrial revolution than the internet revolution.

There are huge known unknowns of how this is going to play out.

But I think we can say a lot of things about how it is going to play out too.

There will be a kind of ability we still really value, but it will not be raw intellectual horsepower to the same degree.

I mean, the kind of dumb version of this would be figuring out what questions to ask will be more important than figuring out the answer.

You ever watch that TV show Battlestar Galactica?

One of the things they say again and again in the show is all this happened before all this will happen again.

And when people talk about the AI revolution, it does feel different to me in some super important qualitative ways.

But also it reminds me of

previous technological panics when i was a kid this thing came out new thing launched on the internet i thought it was cool other people thought it was cool it was clearly way better than the stuff that came before i was not quite old enough yet for this to happen directly to me but the older kids told me about it the teachers started banning the google because did they call it the google the google

If you could just look up every fact, then what was the purpose of going to history class and memorizing facts?