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“We have, like, two centuries of working out how speech works. Like, what are you allowed to say and where? And that's, like, a really complex tapestry of Social convention, and peer pressure, and professional standards, and a very, very small piece of law, sor…”

“If you tried to build that in Germany... Never mind all the other reasons you wouldn't have been able to build it, but you would not have been able to build that in Germany.”

“Once everything calms down, and you build sewers, and you build, have a police department, and you have a social safety net, cities are great. But you do kind of need to build the sewers.”

“Layered onto that, you have a huge amount of sort of scamming because basically you've added software to money and connected to the internet, and it's relatively early, immature software.”

“We're at this stage now of, like, internet early, PCs early eighties, internet early nineties, Enormous amounts of bullshit, and people kind of building this plumbing, and infrastructure, and that's where all the kind of clever, interesting stuff is.”

“There's a kind of a dumb criticism is to say the fact that we don't have email and the web and so on yet for blockchain tells us we never will, which is just dumb. And there's, oh, well it happened in the first 10 years for the internet and we've been 10 years…”

“And that's exactly where we are today with Metaverse and Web Free and blockchain.”

“The more that you try and make things open and standardised, And interoperable and portable, the more you're actually describing cable TV, not the internet. Because the whole fucking point of the internet is actually how little of it is standardized, as much a…”

“And hence people saying, should we regulate the metaverse, or how will politics work on the metaverse, is just completely ludicrous. It's like saying, should we regulate the mobile internet differently from the internet? Well, no, it's just the internet. And, …”

“It doesn't know that. It know, it is collectively reading back to you the entire internet, or it is collectively reading back to you every single photograph that it's seen, or it is collectively reading back to you like the collective consciousness of everythi…”

“There were only sort of 20, 30, forty million consumer PCs on Earth when the internet first started taking off in the mid-nineties.”

“I think it's like, it's as big a deal as mobile or smartphones or the internet, and not a bigger deal than that. I don't think it's like, you know, the new electricity or the new fire. I think it's as big a deal as the internet.”

“There's a big, fuzzy question of how much do you, as a normal person working for a company, have to be thinking about what the software could be doing for you, which I think gets you into this fallacy of, like, we're going to make everybody use AI, which to me…”

“I still see people who say, no, it's just like a stochastic parrot. It doesn't do causation. It doesn't work very well. It's got hallucinations. It's all useless. These people are morons. Like, they are just idiots. But they're idiots in the sense of somebody …”

“Or the end of the day is saying that we're an AI-enabled XYZ, kind of like saying we're, you know, we're an internet-enabled law firm in, like, 1998.”