Lenny Rachitsky: commitment

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…Yeah. So please extend me some grace here because I both mean it as a joke and maybe somewhat real, just depends on which altitude of human nature you look at. My take is that we already have universal basic income. It's called knowledge work. And I don't exclude my job from it, but if you really look at what do we actually need to live and like to be content, it is a lot less. And we've built this hierarchy and all these jobs and all these things that are absolutely necessary. And so to me it's like, yeah, we already have it. It's UBI and we'll come up with other ways in which we as humans, because we're the most important species in the universe, insert ourselves into the conversation around agents. Will it look the same? I don't know. But yeah, I don't know. We are so inventive and we come up with new reasons of why we absolutely must be in that loop. And so I think that's my hot take. People have always joked, we get paid so much just to sit in front of a computer and put the right sorts of words and letters into this thing and we get paid a lot of money to do it. And now it's like, oh shit, maybe I won't be paid this much in the future because AI is going to be taking over. And so your take there is just like, this is a pretty sweet gig we already got. Enjoy this UBI. Yes. I think all things considered, how lucky are we? I don't know. I'm sitting in an air-conditioned room right now talking to you, having a good time. I don't know. Yeah. Just to be clear, not everybody has that luck, but I think that's the folks that I find discussing this the most are the ones that are in the bucket of luck.…

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