Tobi Lütke
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It's like there are some people who have been absolutely instrumental to the inventing AI who are quite on the more pessimistic side there.
But I think what the pessimists also just like, they take a very reductionist view of humans.
Like humans are...
like, adaptable species, right?
We were always talking, like, the joke around nuclear war has always been it's just the cockroaches left.
Now it's the humans.
Like, we figure out everything.
We are way more resilient.
We live in a lot more crazy... I live in Ottawa, Canada for 20 years.
That place is fucking cold.
It's like...
There's just fucking no way anyone could survive at this place without a huge amount of modern technology.
Like, we're basically a... It might as well be an outpost of moon, like, there in the winter.
It's like, you know, just like you grew out, like, in 15 layers and whatever...
cheek might be exposed is, like, hurting.
Like, it's like, it's crazy at those days.
And yet, we live there, and it's a wonderful place to live outside of maybe those days.
At some point, one of my sons asked, like, Dad, why do we live where the air makes you hurt?
Which I thought was a pretty well put question.
Anyway, so, you know, like technology is all around us and technology actually is there to make our lives better and make us be able to