Mike Israetel: commitment

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…Yeah. He was basically talking about this exact problem. So what every single job, even finding the problems being creative and so on, what if everything is done so much better by a super intelligence than us? Basically, we would kind of create purpose for ourselves even though it's a fake form of purpose because we know that we are utterly useless. What do you think? Not gonna happen. Machines at that level of intelligence, we will discover grander purposes for us than we could ever hope. Like if I'm mentoring a teenager and they don't know what the purpose of their life is, I can tell them something grander than they've understood. And the ability to improve your own abilities such that the end goal is you becoming a super version of yourself, and that helps other people. They're like, what? Really? Like, just try that idea on for size. So if I was their life coach, they would start doing that and be like, dude, before I was just interested in video games and smoking weed. Now I have this fucking rich life of improvement. I didn't even know that. Why wouldn't the super intelligent machines guide us towards a greater purpose? That's a problem they can solve. Doctor Mike, do you feel that this is a contradiction? You know, we were talking earlier about, about when I see my personal trainer and I have this wonderful embodied personal experience. And you're talking about a world where the machines would be able to do everything better than us. So why would they even care about what you think about anything? And they would just get their robot to do it for them. The people in the economy or the machines? Well, know, you you you were just giving this example. You you could, you know, be a personal mentor to someone. Yeah. Why would they go to you when they could go to a machine? Because…

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