Trae (Trey) Stephens

Not everything, but for some things, that is a really important thing for people to do.

The traditional kind of liberal arts education, I think it's much harder to make the argument that people should be going into $300,000 of debt to do that.

We just need to have an aspirational path for vocations that don't require that.

And I think it's really on millennials at this point, as they're raising their own children, to make sure they understand that those paths are

Cool.

They're OK.

I want my kids, when they're graduating high school, I don't want them to feel like they have to go to an Ivy League school.

I'm OK if they don't do that.

I'm OK if they decide they want to be chefs or artists or whatever.

Society is larger than just desk jobs, white collar desk jobs.

Yeah, in the early days of AI Companions, I started playing with all these apps just to get a sense for how they worked and how it felt as a user of the applications.

And man, it was really dystopian.

You go into these weird relationships, and you can dress the avatars in lingerie, and they'll never disagree with you.

Pretty much anything you say, they're just going to echo back to you whatever it is that you want to hear.

And they're very good at conversation.

I mean, that's kind of the best use case for LLMs is that it can just keep a conversation going forever and ever and ever.

And I think as a society, we've been moving away from kind of traditional pairing, the way that people have gotten into relationships historically, which kind of worked in local communities.

It was like, you know, you...

met people at school or you met people at church or at the elks lodge or whatever it might have been um and by and large like people were able to pair off uh and and build build families um but today like the whole online dating trend has has shifted that massively where you're no longer looking at local communities it's more of like a local maxima like

within 30 minutes or 45 minutes of where I live?