Tim Urban
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first heard Feb 2023
last heard Feb 2023
Tim Urban’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's kind of fun to have a slap drone, but just making sure that they never do anything again.
And it's like, I was like, oh man, it could just be, everyone could be so safe and everything could be so like, you know, you want a house, you know, the AIs will build you a house.
There's endless space.
There's endless resources.
So I do think that that could be part of our future.
That's part of what excites me is like there is, like today would seem like a utopia to Thomas Jefferson, right?
Thomas Jefferson's world would seem like a utopia to a caveman.
there is a future.
And by the way, these are happening faster, these jumps, right?
So the thing that would seem like a utopia to us, we could experience in our own lifetimes, right?
Like it's, especially if, you know, life extension combines with exponential progress.
I want to get there.
And I think in that part of what makes it utopia is you don't have to be as scared of the worst bad guy in the world trying to do the worst damage because we have protection.
But that said, I'm not sure how that happens.
Like it's, that's,
It's easier said than done.
Nick Bostrom uses the example of if nuclear weapons could be manufactured by microwaving sand, for example, we'd probably be in the Stone Age right now because 0.001% of people would love to destroy all of humanity, right?
Some 16-year-old with huge mental health problems who right now goes and shoots up a school would say, oh, even better, I'm going to blow up a city.
And now suddenly there's copycats, right?
And so...
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