Tristan Harris

If I have a high growth rate economy, that'll lead to the ability to invest more in a bigger military, bigger weapons, more advanced science, more advanced technology, because you just have more money to deploy.

And so economic competition is a precursor for geopolitical competition.

So when we say competing for this external power, we mean competing for GDP growth.

But again, we're competing for GDP growth.

That doesn't mean what it used to mean.

I think a lot of people think, okay, well, if GDP is going up by like 10% because AI is automating all this growth, that sounds awesome.

I was going to say, increases in GDP are almost always a universal good thing.

They had been when it was humans that were generating that and then it was coming back to humans.

Because the revenue is going to be consolidated in a very small number of people.

In this new case, we have five companies.

bucket being poured into the top that's right it's going to stop being poured yeah yeah it this is the confusing and mind-breaking thing about ai and it just in general like i think people have to get used to i mean your podcast is called modern wisdom and i just think about this a lot like what are the wise capabilities that we need to have

in order to make our way through this.

And one of them is the ability to be with something that sounds like science fiction and realize that it's actually real.

And not say because it sounds like it's science fiction that I can just dismiss it and say that can't be true.

A lot of people do that.

They're like AIs that are like,

breaking out of their container and hacking GPUs and mining crypto autonomously when no one told it to do that, that's got to be like a made-up study.

But as we know, there was an Alibaba study just last week where the AIs autonomously broke out of their system and started mining through crypto.

Is it just going to grind to a halt at some point?

I think something like that, yeah.