#2206 - Chamath Palihapitiya

Teachers, I think, are like going to become the most the top three or four important people in society.

Some folks have tried to say that AI is the end-all and be-all. And I think the better way to think about this is that, you know how like you used to have to get your spelling right in an email, and now you just don't think about it because Gmail just fixes it? It up-levels us.

I am objectively afraid that we have lost the script a little bit. I think that folks don't really understand how destructive war can be but also that there are not enough people objectively afraid of this.

There's very little news, I think; there's a lot of opinion. And then the problem with opinion is that feeds the outrage machine.

Part of what's happened is, we used to have news, and you could make a good living in news, and, you know, journalists were really sort of the top of the social hierarchy in some way, shape, or form because they were this check and balance. And then somewhere along the way, this business model focused people on clicks. and nobody told the rest of the world that the underlying incentives were going to change.

There's 330 million Americans in the United States. Don't you think that if we created a bunch of different ways for people to figure out what they're super good at, things are better, not worse?

The odds of the United States going to war when we have infinite energy approaches zero.

Part of our social responsibility as adults is how do you make it so that that second Steve Jobs can find a path to do stuff.