Tom Bilyeu
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And by the way, you're going to get a bunch of politicians, bureaucrats, nameless faceless that are going to decide.
And the level of maddening that that becomes, it just chokes out innovation.
It chokes out progress.
It's so wild.
And so people are running these mental models that I'm just like, where, like, are you not encountering history and going, okay, what specific thing would I have done differently?
Because it always comes down to,
You have to be right every time.
Because if you're right every time, then you can ignore the will of the people.
But one, first, what are we trying to do?
And does everyone agree with that?
So everyone would have to agree with the desired outcome.
Then you would have to be right at every step as to what to do to get to that desired outcome.
And then you could ignore the will of the people because you're able to get them to their desired outcome.
But I'll just put it to you.
If there was a powerful AI...
And if you did exactly what it told you to do and it would lead to a good outcome, would you completely give up your will and just do what the AI says?
Some very meaningful percentage of people are going to say, absolutely not.
On principle alone, I'm not going to do that.
So what on earth makes you think that they're going to do it for a government that, A, is
doesn't have an end state that everyone agrees with is wrong a lot.