Society

“But I also think we're all gonna be gradually inoculated, and I think, honestly, like, fake stuff is really helpful for society right now because it inoculates us and makes us realize we can't trust what we see anymore.”

“So I think that, you know, the white pill to me is like, it's gonna be 20 years, and that's not a bad thing. That's actually a good thing. Yes. Like, society is way slower than you think. Government is way slower than you think. Every company in the world is w…”

“So what I think this tells us is that, you know, we have become, in our society, so reliant on AI, automation, and the robots, that even when it's bad for us, we can't help ourselves, and we still want to employ it, and we still want to trust it, and it's time…”

“If we have an entire generation of angry, non-motivated left out of society young men, it doesn't end well for any society. That's usually the case for revolt.”

“I think it will take a long time for AGI to diffuse across society.”

“Well, this is going to be the most important question for society to answer. Where does the compute go? What problems are worthy? And there's lots of worthy problems, but you need to prioritize them, because you only have so much compute.”

“But I do know that you can't find a way to not have kids and still have a productive society at the end.”

“I do think AI brings a lot of advantages and positivity. And, but if it concentrates opportunity in the hands of very few, then it also brings instability in the end, because that's not what society is going to reject that.”

“And that, that'll be, I just think that'll be like a thing we generally learn over time in society, just as we eventually learned how to use search engines and other tools.”

“The real thing is from where you started to where you are, How have you evolved as a human being? There's no quantity or metric that you can share, and it's your own internal sense of whether that journey has been well lived. Unfortunately, most people don't a…”

“We are, you know, in, in, in my view, so close to these models reaching the level of human intelligence And yet, there doesn't seem to be a wider recognition in society of what's about to happen.”

“And by the way, if you try to lock that in, you're essentially going to be stealing your children's future, because the other society will move ahead, and then yours will now have put them in a very disadvantaged position.”

“I feel like society has wrongly coined hypocrisy as a bad word. Hypocrisy and change are synonymous in a way. I feel like it shouldn't be looked bad upon. Like, if you believe in something today, and you believe in a completely different thing tomorrow, you sh…”

“If you can look at particularly someone who is above average income and there isn't something in their life that they spend very little on, I think there's a high chance that they're just a sheep going along with society tells them they should want.”

“I'd argue that society is downstream of technology. Like we live in a, like there's a physics to technology and what we can do and how we can interact. Society is just, it comes from that. It doesn't dictate to that.”

“I think this will accelerate it when there's hard numbers at the top of the New York times and the wall street journal, assuming we still read anything at the end of next year. I think it will become every dinner table conversation for real.”

“And the point of this is like, we need more people like Elon, not fewer in the world. Whether you agree with him or not, this is how society progresses. We need differences.”

“I don't know that we necessarily lead society, WWE. I wouldn't want to think that, but I think we reflect it.”

“And I think that, so research benefits aside, I'm a big believer that society and technology have to co-evolve. It's, you can't just drop the thing at the end. It doesn't work that way. It is a sort of ongoing back and forth.”

“So like, you'll see this continue to move, but forced guests from the position we're in today, I would say that society decides training is fair use, but There's a new model for generating content in the style of or with the IPF or something else.”

“20 years from now, people are going to look back at like videos of people walking around, looking at their phones, and it's going to look like smoking cigarettes in an airplane. Like, you're just going to be like, I cannot believe people actually did that. And…”

“Any society where people have to be encouraged to have sex, Is a society that has decided to extinguish itself”

“I think AI boyfriends and girlfriends, if developed and allowed to exist is a societal self-owned. I think it's like actively poisonous to society if this becomes the primary, a primary mode of relationship.”

“Even if we have superintelligence, I think it will take some time for its effects to be felt throughout society and the world. And I think they'll be felt sooner and faster in some parts of the world than others.”

“So I think that when it comes to things like sleep and health and working out that our society overemphasizes the benefits that will occur. 20 years from now and under emphasizes the benefits that will occur. 20 hours from now.”

“For the last 25, 30 years Tech meaning broadly, you know, computer science, software, internet, mobile internet now, now crypto and AI in the last few years, this has been, this, there's been, this has been sort of this one vector of progress in our society. T…”

“I think it's actually a pretty bullish case for society adapting the technology because I think it's going to be, you know, consistent, slow progress. For quite some time, and society will have time to fully sort of acclimate to the technology that develops.”

“If people were allowed To change their minds more often without judgment is something I think will help humans evolve faster. If I believed in something five years ago, and I changed my mind about it drastically today, the term society would give it is hypocri…”

“Which is hard because in society that's like the only addiction that's actually praised. Oh my God, you weren't making a bunch of money, you're successful, and everyone's like praising you for it.”

“And we also believe that if you don't pay attention to it, then you might not consciously apply the use of technology to bring people together. And you may passively just allow society to break apart.”

“I don't think movies should be where society derives their sense of morality.”

“Eventually I feel like in society, everybody is chasing status. Which is differentiation from your fellow people.”

“And our society is not ready yet to meaningfully coexist with something that's smarter than us, that is non-human agency.”

“It's not going to be solved By some people in a company somewhere. That's not how it's going to work. It's something that society as a whole needs to engage with, because that's the nature of the transformation which is working.”

“We're just simply releasing more capabilities into society faster than society has the immune systems to absorb and adapt to all the new changes that accompany all of that AI getting released.”

“In my lifetime, our society has degenerated no place more than, you know, what's right, than right and wrong. Like, there's no agreement on right and wrong anymore.”

“I think Star Wars has been like the most anti-technology effector in society since the seventies, because Star Wars is all about the, I've said this before, but the Ewoks destroying the Death Star and like the no tech overcoming the oppressor big tech.”

“Trust from a nonverbal perspective is just, you could think of behaviors on a bell curve distribution, right? So certain people are going to act in certain ways that are not in alignment with how society perceives that behavior to be trustworthy.”

“So I think the same thing is going to happen when it comes to becoming indistractable, frankly, with or without my book was intended to accelerate this process, but we're going to do this naturally. Right? Because what humans do throughout history when it come…”

“If society doesn't catch up to understanding that wealth is not finite and something that should be growing over time, it could lead to a lot of, you know, social unrest and cultural issues.”

“If you impose that on a society, And you don't ever have a period where you pause and let things settle, you will blow up that society.”

“I think comedians and politicians together form some of the smartest people in society.”

“Shovel selling is overhyped, but I think the thoughtful, you know, discourse on what our society will be like in 10 years is probably under hyped.”

“If you think you live in an honest society, you probably act more honestly than if you say a good guy, as you said, if I can't get ahead doing the right thing, that is a very bad word. That is a, That is a worldview, a vicious cycle that's hard to get.”

“And so I think the thing that is different today may be the speed of change, right? Like, I don't think we have decades to adjust to these capabilities in society.”

“I think we have about a five-year window, I think, as a society to kind of figure out what this means and how to adapt.”

“I think school, other parents, society in general discourages that kind of like obsession or intensity where I'd pick up a new thing and I'd only do that for months and get as good as it as I could quickly. And I always say my parents will let me do whatever I…”

“It's so obvious the society we lived in, we live in today, was built by people who were playing positive some games. So what it really is, is, like, those people created, like, a little bit of excess capital That the zero sum game people are like harvesting. T…”

“And I think that this kind of tacit knowledge and articulate knowledge is undervalued in our society. It's undervalued because, you know, we always want to be able to like explain the science and Give the hard reasons for it.”

“And so I would argue on the one hand, there is the ability to assess the risk with greater accuracy and more timeliness, but we have problems in our society and our organizations now where it's very hard to overcome inertia, either The inaction or the momentum…”

“Dissenting voices and critical voices and outspoken voices are extremely important in the discourse that makes society progress. It is not a good society when people that have dissenting of voices or offensive voices are shut down.”

“There's positive femininity. There's positive masculinity. I think that's a good thing in our society. I, you know, you have to have traditional gender. You don't have to have traditional gender roles. You can, you and I could each have parts of us where we ad…”

“It's another case of capitalism gone wrong, and that a lot of people at the top of these companies have made their billions, and walked away from it, and then the rest of society is left to clean up the mess, because the companies are bankrupt, and don't have …”

“We think there's basically a market failure where all of society would be richer if there was more efficient mechanisms to like allocate more resources to creative people that are making kind of culture writ large”

“If you don't have those principles and those ways of getting through that, we will be at each other's throats.”

“We've given all these people these games and this instant gratification, and then we ask them to step back and contemplate major decisions. I think that's just a really hard thing to do right now, and I think you're seeing a whole society. As I said, it's on a…”

“We as A society feel uncomfortable using the words visionary or brilliant to describe women.”