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Patel: Libertarians should support redistribution if AI devalues labor
“I would prefer for significant amounts of redistribution in this world because like the libertarian argument doesn't make sense if there's like no way you could physically pick yourself up by the bootstraps. Like your labor is not worth anything.”
Patel: UBI is the only viable redistribution model if AGI eliminates wages
“If all human wages go to zero or go below subsistence, then the only way to deal with that is through some kind of UBI rather than, you know, if you happen to sue open AI, you get a trillion dollar settlement. Otherwise you're kind of screwed.”
Patel: Major AI misalignment risk is AI playing nations against each other
“From the misalignment stuff, the main thing I worry about is the AI playing us off each other rather than us playing the AIs off, off each other.”
Patel: US and China need a Cold War-style hotline for AI threats
“What I would like to see happen between the U.S. And China, basically, is, like, the equivalent of some red telephone during the Cold War, where you can communicate Look, we noticed this, especially when AI becomes a more integrated with like the economy and g…”
Patel: Skeptical that post-work financial freedom will ruin human meaning
“Humans have just adapted to so much. Agricultural revolution, industrial revolution, the growth of states. Once in a while, like, a communist or fascist regime will come around or something. Like, the idea that being free and having millions of dollars is the …”
Patel argues GDP metrics should incorporate AI-driven economic activity
“And I think the better way to capture what is physically happening is just, like, include the AIs in the GDP numbers.”
Patel: Sovereign wealth funds generally have a bad track record
“I think sovereign wealth funds generally have a bad track record. There's some exceptions that have like managed to use their wealth well, like Norway or Alaska, but there's just like these political economy problems that come up when there's this tight connec…”
Patel: Government should tax AI returns, not direct investments
“I wouldn't want the government influencing where that investment happens, but I want the government taking a significant share of the returns of that investment.”
Dwarkesh Patel: UBI is superior to direct goods distribution post-AGI
“In a future world with explosive growth, we're going to see so many new kinds of goods and services that will be possible that are not available today. And so distributing just like a basket of goods is just inferior to saying, oh, if like we solve aging, here…”
Dwarkesh Patel: AI models hallucinate less and are more reliable than humans
“Do they hallucinate more than the average person? I think, like, no, less. They can hallucinate, meaning, like, getting something wrong, and when they push them on it, they're like, no, you know, whatever, and eventually they'll, like, accede if there's, they'…”