Demis Hassabis: belief

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…And if you think of government as a technology, there’s also interesting questions, not just in the economics, but just politics. How do you design a system that’s responding to the rapidly changing times such that you can represent the different pain that people feel from the different groups and how do you reallocate resources in a way that addresses that pain and represents the hope and the pain and the fears of different people in a way that doesn’t lead to division? Because politicians are often really good at fueling the division and using that to get elected, defining the other and then saying that’s bad. And based on that, I think that’s often counterproductive to leveraging a rapidly changing technology to help the world flourish. So we almost need to improve our political systems as well rapidly, if you think of them as a technology. Definitely. And I think we’ll need new governance structures, institutions probably to help with this transition. So I think political philosophy and political science is going to be key to that. But I think the number one thing, first of all is to create more abundance of resources. So that’s the number one thing. Increase productivity, get more resources, maybe eventually get out of the zero-sum situation. Then the second question is how to use those resources and distribute those resources. But yeah, you can’t do that without having that abundance first. You mentioned to me the book, The Maniac by Benjamin Labatut, a book on first of all about you. There’s a bio about you.…

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