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…I think Zvi puts it well when he says you only get one significant digit on your P doom number. So I'm definitely with you in terms of the like faux precision being a strange impulse for some people. At the same time, I also think of Laurent, I'm sure you've seen his work with doom debates. And Laurent has kind of pushed me at times to be like, okay, sure, it doesn't have to be a number or whatever, but like, we need more people to be more candid about how confident they are or are not, that in some general sense, if your neighbor were to ask you or if your kid's grandmother were to ask you or whatever, is it going to be okay? are the kids going to be okay? Good question. I tend to think that people have preconceived attitudes about these kinds of things that then cause them to back propagate, rationalize them. I'm A generally fairly optimistic person. So if you ask me this kind of question, what I'm going to say is probably it's going to be okay. Probably we're going to figure it out. You know, in a risk adjusted way. Not to say, again, like to be clear, I'm not saying that there are no risks in AI. There are many risks. But I do not think that we have strong evidence that it is impossible to navigate these risks or that it is extremely unlikely that we will navigate these risks. So that's where I am. That's the week. We're live most weekday mornings. The full conversations run long past what fits here. And the best way to know if they're for you is to come watch one. Same sincere ask as last week. If this cut earned your time or wasted it, tell us which moments did which. We read everything and we tune the show on it. I'll be making sense of this in real time from here till the singularity. See you Monday morning.…

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