Stewart Brand

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734 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 24 Apr

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The Ezra Klein Show · Stewart Brand, Silicon Valley’s Favorite Prophet, on Life’s Most Important Principle · 24 Apr 2026 podcast

Don't just jump for the solution because you might make the problem worse.

Think through the solution.

disrupt the system minimally in the process of figuring out what needs to be fixed, fixing only that, and then backing carefully out so the rest of the system doesn't get disrupted.

It's a highly intellectual process during diagnosis and repair.

Well, I wound up most of the book is chapter two vehicles.

And the land vehicle that humans have used for 6,000 years is a horse.

And the horse takes a lot of maintenance.

I think I'll read something here from the book if I may.

There's this philosopher named Albert Bergman who wrote, You cannot remain unmoved by the gentleness and confirmation of a well-bred and well-trained horse, more than a thousand pounds of big-boned, well-muscled animal, slick of coat and sweet of smell, obedient and mannerly, and yet forever a menace with its innocent power and ineradicable inclination to seek refuge in flight.

And all is a burden for this need to be fed and wormed and shod with its liability to cuts and infections to lamina and heaves.

But when it greets you with a knicker, nuzzles to your chest,

It regards you with a large and liquid eye.

The question of where you want to be and what you want to do has been answered.

And I end with, I wonder if that might come again someday, a vehicle that can tear back.

Your children tear back.

That makes maintaining them completely different than maintaining your vehicles.

I think this is one of the things we may ask our AIs to do for us.

Give us things that care back in some sense.

Now the question is, are they faking it or do they mean it?

And maybe part of the design will be that they do mean it.

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