AGI, Power, and Profit: The Uncomfortable Truths

Show Notes: Know What to Think

Episode length: ~41 minutes

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• 00:00 — Know · What · Where · Artificial. It’s really entertaining, and we’re doing a lot of fun, good stuff. Then, maybe… maybe longer, but let’s just see how it goes. Most are between 10 and 20 minutes. Alright, go ahead and start. Yep, I’m gonna hit the…

• 05:00 — There · Robot · Know · What. Right, okay. Alright, so why… why isn’t nuclear an option to bring the kind of power we need? Yeah, I mean, I think the short answer is it’s available, it’s accessible, but I don’t think it’s enough to actually solve…

• 10:00 — Don’t · Know · They’re · More. It’s a $200,000 vehicle at a minimum, if not $250,000. I don’t know how that thing makes money. To be honest, I mean, does anybody think it— a taxi driver driving a $200,000 car—can… quickly… money on a regular basis.…

• 15:00 — Know · What · You’re · I’m. I’m gonna… you know, what we can actually do with that, I don’t really know. I feel like, you know, we’ve… we know what… the powder that produces dynamite, but the problem is that we don’t have any casing, and…

• 20:00 — Its · Own · Why · Think. …even abnormally distributed. And this is really normal with past types of dimensions, with electricity and airplanes, or even the combustion engine for cars, etc. But at the moment, right now, you know, we really need…

• 25:00 — Know · What · Don’t · Why. The question is, why? We already have enough of us. Yeah, I mean, you know, maybe we need less of us, I don’t know. It depends—depends on your opinion, I guess. Well, but for me, you said it correctly: what is our goal…

• 30:00 — Know · Quite · Think · Mean. There’s quite a number of individuals like that in Silicon Valley. And that’s been true. He’s tried to sue Sam Altman afterwards to become a founder. He was not actually the original founder of Tesla; he sued his way…

• 35:00 — Know · Things · One · Human. You know, the math is… it’s… it’s gnarly. It’s hard, and yeah. So we need a lot of power for this. Isn’t it interesting, though, that one human being—powered by food and the sun—can do exactly what…

• 40:00 — Good · Maybe · Time · Fun. Follow me next time. Yeah, maybe next time we’ll talk about that. Fantastic conversation. There are other things coming up that I’d love to get you on—your perspective. I love your angle, it’s…

Notable Quotes

And I think that… ultimately, I don’t know, maybe people watch too many movies; they think those movies are reflective of what we’re gonna see in the future.

Artificial intelligence—if it was a car and you open up the hood—what do you see?

I think artificial general intelligence… let me map out, ultimately, what you’re trying to ask here.

And here’s the reason: artificial intelligence… there’s always errors.

I don’t agree, and I don’t think it’s gonna be Skynet; I don’t think it’s gonna be I, Robot. I mean, they’re entertaining.

But I’m also a realist; I know that a lot of this is hype—but it’s fun, it’s fun.

There’s a lot of things that we have as artificial intelligence right now that we use.

I feel like we know the powder that produces dynamite, but the problem is we don’t have any casing—and that’s where we are right now.