Back to episode — Episode 2752 CWSA 02/16/25
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d the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Well, I don't know about you, but what I really needed this weekend was a little less news, and thank goodness we got a little bit less news. Trump's been kind of quiet. I mean, he caused a little bit of trouble, but Elon Musk says he's taking at least a day or two off because he's getting ready to launch the newest AI, Grok. So things got strangely qui…
← Previous segment →. And it doesn't look like Elon finalized his paperwork, and it feels like a problem.
So this is my advice: Don't get involved with anybody unless you've got a lawyer with you. You should bring the lawyer on the first date, maybe the second date too. It's like, "Hi, you know, my name's Bob and this is my attorney. He'll be negotiating the paperwork in case this comes to anything. Will you or will you not be using birth control? And we'd like a clause in there that would protect our client." So that's what it looks like in the future.
I'll tell you one of the things that came out of whatever is going on between Ashley and Elon, which is really none of our business but it became public, was there ever a point you said to yourself, "Man, I'm so jealous of Elon. He doesn't have to have a wife and he doesn't need to have a girlfriend who's giving him trouble. He can just create all these baby mamas. As long as he can afford it, it's going to be great." And now I'm thinking, how in the world can you survive with that many baby mamas who all just have one thing they want to ask you today? You know what would be good is if I had a little bit extra money this month. Do you think it ever stops? I wonder if he ever stops getting messages. You know, one of the kids is a little older. Wouldn't be bad if we had an extra million. I don't know how it's going, but I hope he is choosing his baby mamas well. I think some of them are working out pretty well actually.
Naval Ravikant was a guest on the All-In podcast, and I loved one thing he said because it just calms everybody down. So I'm going to repeat it. There's no indication — this is me paraphrasing, so not his words — but there's no indication that AI is going to reduce the number of jobs. There's a lot of indication it will be a tremendous aid to people in jobs. There's a lot of indication that some jobs, entire slices of industries, will change, but that is a normal thing. There are entire industries that used to exist when I was a kid that don't exist now. So industries coming and going is pretty normal.
But as Naval puts it, it's not so much that AI will cause you to get another job, because as he points out, "job" sort of indicates you have a boss and you had to apply for it. But it could be that AI will create what Naval calls opportunities. So you can say to yourself, "Hey, I don't know much about this or that, but if I use AI I'll be as smart as anybody who does this or that. So I'll become a person who provides whatever service or goods, and I'll use AI to figure out how to do it. And it might even do most of the work, but it wouldn't do it on its own." And you're probably always going to need a human to sign papers and work out weird little problems and negotiate things as you go.
So this is very much what I've been speculating for a while, that we can't predict AI but it didn't look like it was going to take jobs. So I've sort of been on this
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path for a while, but it's good to see Naval say it because he's smarter. So it's good when smart people agree with you. All right, here's something that probably is a nothing but might be a really big thing. Now before I tell you, I would like to say what the NPCs will say. You know I do this as a service so they don't have to do it. When I'm done I want you to yell, "That's Soylent Green! I don…
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