The Wisdom Wall
7 quotable lessons, heuristics and mental models. Every one is playable at the moment it was said. No fortune cookies allowed.
“I think at the limit, it's actually kind of indefensible to have A perspective other than lawful use, because if you are salami slicing the policy, that's actually tyranny by tech bro. You know, a small number of people are constraining the maneuver space of a democracy with no accountability to the populace.”
“We're listening too much to the inventors of AI. I know that's appealing. They're geniuses. They're smart. We need to be listening to the frontline factory workers who are using AI saying, wow, I was able to add a third shift. I was able to hire more workers. Or the ICU nurse who says, I have more time to spend with my…”
“you can't keep shooting two million dollar interceptors at 20,000 dollar drones and have that math work very long.”
“I think the first schism was really during Vietnam, where people felt like, um, they were lied to about the war. It, it drove a fundamental schism between academia and defense. And that we've never really healed from that schism.”
“All periods of American greatness have started when we realize that we're the underdog.”
“Everyone is afraid of AI replacing the human. That's not what I'm seeing. I'm seeing it, it make the most The, the, the person with the greatest taste more valuable and an ability to spread that to the breadth of the organization.”
“For any amount of given security, you should have more privacy than you had before. Or any amount of given privacy, you should have more security. And, and this sort of changing the dialectic there was really the, the entire impetus of what we started with.”