Vladimir Tenev

Right?

And so it was like the end of chess.

It's never going to go back.

But now the chess industry is bigger than ever.

It's like 5x bigger, three times as many grandmasters.

The grand prizes are bigger than ever.

Turns out...

I mean, I agree with you.

There's empirical evidence like AIs are already better at it, but we're not watching them.

So unlikely that there's going to be some tipping point where, oh, well, if they're only this much better, then we'll start watching it.

I think it's the human story that's the product there, right?

My biggest worry is that the people aren't behind it.

So you actually compare AI with crypto and.

Whenever there's like some regulatory overreach or something that's like anti crypto out there, either by the government or lawmakers, there's like a huge retail army of crypto fans that are fighting against it.

And even you could argue this last election, the 2024 presidential election, crypto became a massive constituency that actually swung lots of districts and votes in favor of the Trump administration, which like openly embraced crypto much earlier than I think the the Harris campaign tried some tepid efforts to reach out to crypto people, but they kind of felt flat and never looked genuine.

So and I think the reason crypto has this army is because from the very beginning, normal people could get access to crypto.

You got the pizza guy, but it started out as a retail phenomenon, whereas A.I.

You've got companies that are private that are still only accessible to a relatively small circle of wealthy individuals that keep getting wealthier.

Now these companies are worth hundreds of billions.

And you do have Google.