Qasar Younis: prediction

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…And you see a nunchuck-wielding robot, a self-driving car doing bad things could be very dangerous already. And so that's a really good reframe that if you just think of it's just another robot and it's been really good for us. And by the way, the self-driving thing, as an example, whichever way you slice the statistics that are available from self-driving companies, they're supremely, supremely more safe than human drivers. And I do believe in 20 or 30 years, not that much longer, we'll look back and we'll kind of be like, it's kind of like we think about child labor. In a post-Industrial Revolution, that was a normal thing. You would send kids who are in middle school to go work. It happens in third world countries today. There isn't a lot of emotion behind it. It is not considered to be exploitative because you have no choice. And I think we'll look back in 25, 30 years, we're like, people were just tired, under the influence, extremely stressed, going through a traumatic life experience, and then they jump into a car like that. It is crazy. And just for everyone, everyone should really emotionally think about it. Just in the United States, over 30,000 people will die in the next year from these accidents. The old Stalin line, it's like one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic, and we just let the statistic kind of go over our head like, "Oh, it's 30,000 people." But if you ever have talked to a family of somebody who went through a tragedy like a car accident, it's unbelievable. And suddenly, all the fear of AI robots goes away and you really see that human impact and you realize actually us driving doesn't make sense. And it's not for any other reason than literally people die. I've become a huge... I have a Tesla and I've just used self-driving all the time now. Just like a few months ago it got very good and it used to be nerve-wracking and now it's like, "Wow, this is much better than I am."…

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