Tristan Harris

This is the problem in general that we face with technology, and this is the E.O.

Wilson quote.

It's not just that we have paleolithic brains, medieval institutions, it's that the brains operate on a very slow updating clock rate.

The institutions operate on a slow clock rate and the technology moves at whatever the 21st or now 24th century technology clock rate.

You have to have your governance move at the pace of the thing that you're trying to govern.

There needs to be, rather than recursively self-improving AI that is uncheckable by any human oversight process, in which we will for sure lose control and build something crazy that we regret, we instead should have self-improving governance.

You can use AI to look at all the laws on the books and say, what are the laws that don't matter anymore, that are creating all this red tape that we don't need, that's like stifling innovation?

and get the ai to find those laws and reinterpret them and say what are the ones we need to get rid of and how do you rewrite them for 21st century technology in the current age we could be using ai and technology to update the governance as fast as the technology but we'd also probably need to slow down the technology which we would benefit from because then we wouldn't crash again it's like china wins when they whisper in our ear go faster go faster you're gonna blow yourself up

Pyrrhic victory.

You said this earlier.

When the US races ahead and has a more sophisticated model, China gets it like 10 days later.

Because first of all, they have spies on all of our companies.

And second of all, they distill all the models.

They have spies in the companies.

you know they're maximally incentivized to know what's going on plus as I as you were saying they can distill the US models meaning they can like query those models a thousand times and kind of distill the essence of those models and then make and train theirs so there's a great like meme online of um like it's a motorboat with a guy who's um

What is it called when you're wake surfing?

Yeah, like you're wake surfing behind him on the string.

I mean, on the, what is that called?

The string.

Yeah, whatever.