Zack Kass
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2,920 appearances
4 recordings
4 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 5 Jul
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So all that being said,
There are huge problems in the society that almost no amount of technology can fix.
Now, there are some exceptions, and some of those exceptions include drug discoveries.
So I tell everyone that AI could truly save itself if it can figure out how to cure cancer or neurodegenerative disease because even the policymakers can't stop that.
And the conspiracy theorists will pile on.
They'll say they'll stop it.
They can't.
If a drug manufacturer actually figures out the cure for these diseases, they will sell them.
They will ship them.
And you cannot stand in the way of that, politically speaking.
Outside of that, it's actually pretty hard to think of a technology that will change the current course of our cost of living, given the political restrictions.
And I say this because...
We actually could observe a world where AI continues to improve at a breakneck speed, where the frontier, as it has, continues, and you can show a chart, continues to improve logarithmically, and it won't matter.
And I'm actually about to publish a paper called the Diminishing Model Returns Theory, which says at some point the frontier will not matter to anyone, the next model, the next great model, because we're too busy digesting the last model or the one before it.
And a lot of that digestion is going to be political.
A lot of that digestion is going to be, it's not going to be enterprise updating.
It's actually going to be the policymakers saying you can automate this.
I wrote another paper that's very unpopular called Illegal Automation, which documents the 1.5 million jobs in the United States that you cannot legally automate.
There are 7 million in Europe, by the way.
Now, when we talk about illegal automation, people go, it's the policymakers protecting workers.
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