Humanity

“One of my theories, Lenny, is that, like, when the stakes are high, we are awesome. When the stakes are low, we are at our absolute worst.”

“Copper is the fundamental linchpin in how humans are able to exist in the next thousand years. If we cannot fix it now, that is the thing that I truly believe will cause mass impacts to society.”

“In all of these cases, when new technology has found its way to humanity, the general population has found a way to protect itself. There isn't a desire or need to have one savior, one Moses that takes us You know, across the desert there is a collective inter…”

“We will do in the next several decades what it took humanity several hundred years to achieve.”

“If you spend most of your life doing what I do, which is reading for purpose, right? What's the actionable takeaway from what I'm reading? You know about what to do and how to do it. You're probably less good at understanding the why. And as Lakshad was talkin…”

“Humanity has totally dominated the planet, And we keep our closest living relatives in glass boxes so they don't go extinct. And so there's a real history here of greater intelligence being very dangerous.”

“I think that survival of humanity depends on a successful AI, because at some point, if you have, you know, 60% of your population that's in a demographic where you don't have enough people to take care of them, like that, that could cause a lot of human suffe…”

“We're gonna have these Models at a company be outputting more tokens per day than all of humanity put together. And then 10 times that, and then a hundred times that.”

“And then curiosity, you just, you, I think you want the AI to want to know more about the nature of reality. [4757] Elon Musk: I think that's actually going to be helpful for AI supporting humanity because [4766] Elon Musk: We are more interesting than not hum…”

“The only good outcome is a being that is, that cares, that actually cares about us.”

“Social media. Is one of the worst things to happen to humanity.”

“Frankly, you know, probably 10% of humanity will fall in some way in, in love with, or in obsession with some kind of an AI in the same way we lost people to MMORPGs or what have you.”

“There is a lot of ways to be as a person. And some people express their deep appreciation in different ways. But one of the ways that I believe people express their appreciation to the rest of humanity is to make something wonderful and put it out there. And y…”

“Yeah. I do. War, warfare is permanent. And you know, humanity is, is a war-torn species. I think that we invent incredibly dangerous things, and I do think that those incredibly dangerous things will keep it interesting for quite a while.”

“I have no doubt that humanity will move into an age where we cohabit with robots.”

“We are, like, aware of the fact that we often are our worst enemy, and we shoot ourselves in the foot ourselves, and we're going to get bigger guns like, metaphorically with all this AI stuff. Which is going to make it very easy to have this tempting stuff com…”

“In fact, I think one of the biggest civilizationary unlocks would be to all agree that entropy or darkness in the universe is the enemy and that we should, like, spread consciousness into the universe. If we can all agree that's the goal, then we can always be…”

“In the 80% of worlds or 90% of worlds where we don't get paper clipped you will get to say you worked on something really cool at a time that was really important in the history of humanity.”

“That could be changing, like, Next decade. Like in our lifetimes.”

“I think that almost for sure, just like every other epoch of Technological development in human history is we're gonna have a lot of, oh my god, the world's coming to an end, and then in a few years, it'll be like, oh my god, that's really great, and there's a…”

“So we actually have every primary piece of technology required to continue existence.”

“The AI is not gonna kill us, ok? Not happening.”

“So there've been a hundred and seventeen billion people estimated to have inhabited the planet. A hundred and ten billion of them never saw a single invention in their entire life. You look at human progress, life spans, children who die in wed or in, in, in, …”

“I don't have very high hopes for humanity to develop that conceptual understanding to the level that we would need it in order to do all the interventions we want to do.”

“And you're not going to make money with the sinister view of humanity.”

“The largest thing any, anyone's ever put into space, humanity's put into space is the international space station. And that's only a hundred meters across.”

“So the humanity gets about two and a half, almost three trillion dollars a year from the oceans.”

“AI is going to bring a new renaissance for humanity, a new form of enlightenment, if you want, because AI is going to amplify everybody's intelligence. It's like every one of us will have a staff of people who are smarter than us and know most things about mos…”

“I think organically people do right by people over the long term. I'm not talking about the rich versus the poor, the gifted versus the ungifted, whatever, but society, humanity has lasted till this point, and it has thrived because organically we kind of do r…”

“The constraining factor on humanity isn't how much physical capital there is. We can do amazing things. I mean, look at Germany. Germany just built a whole bunch of LNG terminals in, like, a few months, right? These are projects that people were like, oh, this…”

“Hey, the future's fantastic, and we'll probably become immortal relatively soon, and all these kind of things and maybe not us, but our children definitely will.”

“We're talking about approximately a third of humanity does not have access to safe water at home, right? And so it's a, it's something like 2.4 billion people, and that's the official number.”

“We really, if we did nothing, you know, we would likely wipe out our species and all other species of life on this earth, or maybe there would be a very hard, ugly reset that would take place over the centuries and millennia ahead. But fortunately, we have inc…”

“That capitalism is, is not a force for evil. Capitalism is a force for good. It's helping humanity to progress. And there might be bad actors in capitalism, just like they're bad actors in business or bad doctors, bad lawyers, bad politicians. But in general, …”

“We only get one chance to develop an intelligence greater than us, and if you do it wrong, it's the end of things, and there's a very, very good chance we're going to do it wrong, just judging by how rarely we as a species get things right the first time.”

“They have a hundred year plans to dominate humanity, and they are willing to put millions of people into concentration camps.”

“Yes, I think on the whole, we will win our battles against most pathogens, because we have so much possibility of ingenuity now, of human ingenuity to help us defeat them.”

“So after four billion years of evolution, of organic life forms, we are really on the verge of creating the first inorganic life forms, and if this happens, It's the greatest revolution in the history of life since the very beginning of life.”

“I cannot think of a greater prize for humanity than making progress in unifying these approaches, and thereby understanding the essential question that we've always asked, which is, how did it all happen?”

“We're gonna add a lot more people to this planet in the next 30 years. And if we continue to do things using the systems that humans have evolved, we're gonna need 70% more food, and we're gonna need 55% more fresh water.”

“If this one thing works, like, if we do actually build AGI at OpenAI, that is more important than all of the innovation sum total in humanity so far. So, clearly not has all the innovation happened.”

“There's very, very many ways in which the activities that we, that humanity will likely do over the 21st century could lead to global catastrophe, civilizational collapse, or even extinction.”

“It's either going to be the coolest story for humans or it's the end. This is the, That is a, it is a 501 page book. And that's it. Or this is the beginning of like the new paradigm. We have a new BC AD situation. We have a BC, which is like before something t…”

“So, so everybody understands that's listening or watching, you know, we can, we can't generate a coherent paragraph, right? So, I don't mean we, magenta. I mean, kind of we, humanity.”

“And the entire History of humanity. There's been exactly one successful slave revolution. One.”

“To be honest, I don't know that AI is gonna be necessarily that different. Which is say all those other technologies were incredibly transformative, and this will be another example. And people who come from a thousand years ago will look at us and sort of mar…”

“In terms of things that I think are most likely to affect the future of humanity, I think AI is probably the single biggest item in the near term that's likely to affect humanity.”