Civilization

“I actually think what kind of video games you like is a pretty good revealer of your things too. Like, I wasn't playing any kind of first person shooter games or any of that, some of it, but not much. Most of what I was playing was strategy games. You know, ci…”

“If we don't use AI, we will simply be left behind. I think we have to like embrace that fact. Like it's not optional. You could live a kind of a life like throw, you know, and like in, you know, in the woods, I guess. But for us who want to be part of civiliza…”

“The future of our civilization is large God fearing families, which if you practice the Catholic faith, because there's no jerking off and no sex before marriage, you're going to have.”

“So it's kind of like this amazing simulation of what it's like to run one of the top 10 market cap mega capitalization companies in the world today.”

“The highest form that civilization can reach is a seamless web of deserved trust. Not much procedure, just totally reliable people correctly trusting one another.”

“Over the long term, the eclipse rate of great civilizations being overtaken is a hundred percent.”

“At least from the equations of physics, if you consider the whole system of civilization, the equations predict that the system will optimize towards its growth, towards consuming more free energy.”

“A civilization is defined by people living and talking. So the quality of our conversation, the manner in which we talk with one another, that's the quality of our civilization.”

“This, by the way, is I think the biggest single threat to civilization right now is the.”

“Except decline is reversible. I mean, you go through bad patches, but that doesn't mean you're going to kind of expire.”