Lenny Rachitsky: belief

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…tially, if you compound that to how society operates, that's going to be pretty profound as an implication, while keeping in mind that these safety and security risks are non-trivial and they're real. And you can't be completely flippant about them, because how an AI identifies its own success and its own ambition will really matter. And we have to make sure that we actually keep guardrails around that, because it is in service of humans, it is not to go out and build a society by itself. And I do think that those are important kind of checks and balances you have to keep in mind. But the thing that people sometimes miss out in this very polarized narrative, which is we are either going to have nothing to do in society, or this is going to be completely useless as a piece of technology. I think that's not a helpful narrative. In fact, what is helpful is saying, "As we reconstruct society for the next phase, how can we make sure that life gets infinitely better? How can we make sure that diseases get solved? How can we make sure that poverty gets eradicated? How can we make sure that how people learn and find excitement and joy out of life gets compounded meaningfully?" If that happens, I think there's goodness that comes out of this. A line that I often think about is, Huang has had this thought that the best case scenario with AI, because he was a very AI doomer for a long time, and I think the reason he got leaned into AI is like, "I need to help steer this in a direction that isn't going to harm the world. " The way he described it is, "The best case scenario for humanity is we're the house cat, where AI is just like, 'Okay, nice. Just keep sitting here with me and I'll take care of you.'" But by the way, the things that he is doing right now are nothing short of extraordinary. And for all the critique that one can have, the level of deep thinking that's going on with his company, it's just crazy.…

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