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Over the next two years, the life you
know will vanish. No warning, no vote,
just an inferno of artificial
intelligence that will burn away
everything you're used to. Jobs,
relationships, family, religion,
economics, warfare. They will all become
unrecognizable by the time a kid born
today graduates high school. If such a
thing even exists by then. Your job is
to figure out what this change means for
you and how to navigate it well so you
do not get left behind. That's what
we're going to be doing here today. Let
me set the table. This moment in history
is unparalleled. The world's two major
superpowers are locked in a cold war,
both battling for economic,
technological, and military supremacy.
And AI sits at the heart of all three.
Charlie Mer famously said, "Show me the
incentives and I'll show you the
outcome." When great powers are fighting
for dominance, the only incentive is to
compete and win. What does that mean for
our future? America, the world's
policeman, is in the middle of a debt
crisis. Populism is on the rise.
Political tensions are at a fever pitch.
Credible voices see civil war on the
horizon. And right in the middle of all
of that is the AI revolution. So, what
happens when an already pivotal moment
in history occurs? Right in the middle
of the most significant period of
technological change the world has ever
seen? That's what we're here to answer.
The next two years are going to be
dramatic because history doesn't move
forward smoothly. It lurches forward in
sudden violent spasms of change when
people revolt or science unlocks new
abilities. Think of the printing press,
electricity, the atomic age, the birth
of the internet, and now AI. Now, my
goal today isn't to convince you we
should speed up or slow down. My goal is
to help you understand the direction of
travel and how to prosper through
radical disruption. There's always a
path. however narrow. Now, many, many
people are going to emotionally implode
over the next few years. Others though
are going to win. In our time together
today, I'm going to orient you towards
what's happening and see if we can find
that path, narrow though it may be, to
winning in five easy parts. This time, I
absolutely saved the best for last. So,
make sure you watch to the end where we
talk strategy for how to win in this
insane time. Part one, the future is
going to be faster and vaster than you
think. In just the last year, more
people talk to AI than their doctor,
lawyer, or therapist. Character.ai,
Replica, Chat, GPT, and Snapchat's AI
alone engage with millions of users
daily, far more often, and for longer
than the average person consults with a
professional of any kind for any reason.
Project that forward, and you quickly
see how AI becomes the dominant form of
social interaction. Full stop. But
social interaction is just the
beginning. AI is already changing jobs,
medicine, engineering, warfare, and
science. We are the proverbial frogs
being boiled already. Sam Alman, the
founder of Open AI, has predicted that
AI is progressing at a rate of 300%
year-over-year with no signs of
stopping. Do you know how insane that
is? 30% growth year-over-year would
already be exponential. at 300% growth.
By the end of year 2, you're not at 600%
growth. You're at 1,600%.
That's how compounding works. That's 16
times your starting condition. In 3
years, you're at 64 times your starting
condition. Now, listen, even if Sam is
delusional and it slows down for the
terrifying reason I will explain in part
three, it's never going to stop. AI is
that moment on our timeline where an
entirely new skill tree opens up and
nothing is the same after. I want you to
close your eyes and imagine this. An
82-year-old man jogs a 10K at sunrise.
His knees feel perfect. He's
biologically 38 thanks to AI
reprogrammed stem cells. His romantic
partner, an embodied AI entity who's
reignited his love life after his
divorce, helped him overcome trauma,
make financial decisions, and build a
second career on YouTube. Our man
doesn't even notice the hum of
autonomous drones overhead, quietly
scanning for threats. He's thinking
about his biologically customized
grandson. He came out of the artificial
womb exactly as expected, adorable,
cancer resistant, and on track to be
6'4, and with an IQ pushed to the legal
limit. On his third birthday, they even
upgraded him with a neural chip that
lets him read and transmit thoughts
telepathically to other augmented
humans. His parents are contemplating
the software update that would let him
translate the family dog's barking. As
future grandpa steps into his house, he
feels his neural link chip reconnect to
the quantum encrypted network his AI
wife set up. The data from his run is
uploaded and analyzed. I could go on and
on, but hopefully you get the point. The
future is going to be very different,
and odds are it's going to arrive very
fast. All made possible by artificial
intelligence. AI entrepreneur and
futurist Kyu Lee went so far as to say
AI will change the world more than
anything in the history of mankind. How
could it not? AI has already done a list
of things so radical. One of them, one
of them should leave you with your jaw
on the floor. Forget chatbots. Here is
but a tiny fraction of the things AI has
already done. Solve the proteinfolding
grand challenge, a feat humans have
failed to do for more than 50 years.
create new gene editing tools, prove new
mathematical theorems, improve medical
diagnostics and drug discovery, detected
tumors up to four years before they
fully develop, gotten over 950 AI
powered medical devices and algorithms
authorized by the FDA, improved
foundational coding languages like C++,
made Hollywood quality film making and
music available to the average person,
deployed millions of industrial robots
and factories worldwide, and so much
more. And that's what's happened right
now. As AI clusters get bigger and more
efficient, as we ramp up energy
production, as AI makes new things
possible, how far is it going to go? The
biggest challenge in human history isn't
something that will happen in the
future. It's what's already happening
right now. And as I was writing this, LA
was literally on fire. It was in the
middle of the riots. They didn't have
anything to do with AI, but they had
everything to do with people feeling
left behind. People do not riot when
they feel calm and confident about the
future. They riot because they're mad,
confused, scared, or all of the above.
And typically that happens because of
economics. And if I'm right about that,
what happens when AI kills old jobs and
creates new jobs they're not even
qualified for? But we'll be fine, right?
I mean, history shows. Well, what does
history show? Does it say we'll be fine?
It depends, I guess, on how you feel
about 30 years of war. And that looming
question brings us to part two. History
shows change makes people deadly. In the
16th century, a new media technology
triggered the deadliest war in European
history, a record that held until the
20th century. It killed 8 million
people, one in five Germans, and left
entire regions of Central Europe
depopulated. The tech, it wasn't machine
guns or cluster bombs. It was the
printing press. Before the printing
press, knowledge was only for the
elites. A single book could cost as much
as a house. But after it, books were
cheaper than a teacher's monthly salary.
This caused literacy to surge, but it
also triggered mass chaos via the
Protestant Reformation. Martin Luther
wrote his 95 thesis in 1517, and that
led to the explosion of Protestant
ideas, which then fractured the
religious unity of Europe. Over the next
century, Europe splintered into Catholic
and various Protestant factions,
sparking waves of devastating conflict.
ultimately culminating in the bloodbath
that was the 30 years war. All of that
was a consequence of making publishing
cheaper. Can you imagine? The printing
press simply made it cheaper to publish.
But the second order consequence was
that ideas could suddenly spread faster
than tyrants could suppress them. That's
a good thing. But it's not an only up
phenomenon. It also divided people along
ideological lines. The same tool that
empowered liberty also allowed for the
spread of propaganda and served to push
people into camps. Camps people were
willing to fight and die for. Sound
familiar? Sure. Europe eventually
settled down. But that is cold comfort
to all of the people who died. And it
certainly wasn't that long ago that
Catholics and Protestants were still
killing each other in Ireland. And
history is full of insane stories just
like that. Take gunpowder. Overnight,
combat stopped being about muscle and
started to be about money. A random guy
with a musket could drop an armored
knight at distance. It was a watershed
moment in the history of warfare. But it
also greatly accelerated the rise of
centralized nation states. Prior to
gunpowder, medieval Europe had been run
by decentralized powers, local nobles
and fortified castles. They could defy
kings. Gunpowder, though changed that
equation real quick. Large professional
armies equipped with firearms emerged
which required bureaucratic organization
and heavy taxation to maintain thus
strengthening state institutions.
Scholars speak of the 16th century
military revolution as giving birth to
the early modern fiscal military state.
This disrupted economic priorities and
created huge opportunities for those
paying attention to the changing
landscape, but only for those paying
attention. And if you think gunpowder
was big, look at the industrial
revolution. considered by many to be the
most profound transformation of human
life since the agricultural revolution.
GDP per capita had been mostly flat for
centuries. Then bam, with
industrialization, we entered an era of
truly exponential growth. Likewise,
electricity sparked the second
industrial revolution, utterly
transforming the global economy. The
cost of goods dropped and mass
production soared to new heights. From
automobiles to canned foods, electric
powered factories churned out products
for a growing consumer society.
Electrification also created entirely
new industries. And by 1920, electricity
and related industries made up a huge
share of GDP in advanced countries. jobs
changes as well, pushing people from old
jobs like lamp lighters, candle makers,
and horse cart teamsters to newer jobs
like electrical engineers, electricians,
and skilled workers to build and
maintain the grid. Now, I might as well
be describing AI itself, but AI will be
far more revolutionary than anything
we've seen previously. It's not an
explosion of words or even the violent
explosion of gunpowder. It is the
explosion of intelligence. The very
thing that gives birth to the
revolutions that lurch us all forward.
So the real question becomes, is this
something we should be excited about?
Are these technological advances really
worth the risk of that kind of
disruption? In my opinion, yes. But
honestly, it doesn't matter. There's no
stopping this train. So if your impulse
at this point is to pump the brakes, I'm
guessing you've never heard of
Thusidity's trap. It's shocking and
entirely predictable given what I know
about humans. And if you've heard of
Thusidity's trap, then you know exactly
where we're headed. Welcome to part
three. Superpower showdown aka AI is
really an arms race. 12 times in
history, 12 times in history, when a
rising power threatened a ruling one,
the result was war. Only four times was
war averted. This is known as
Thusidities trap. The ancient Greek
historian Thusidities first recognized
this pattern when reflecting on the fall
of Sparta and the rise of Athens. Sparta
could not accept their decline and
Athens refused to tolerate being in
second place. This pattern of rise and
fall works like a tractor beam pulling
superpowers into conflict. And right now
the rising power is China and the
declining power the United States. While
the future is never perfectly knowable,
historical patterns certainly make some
things more obvious. AI is going to be
at the heart of whether this becomes the
13th war or the fifth time in history it
was avoided. That's why I don't think of
this moment as a tech race. I think of
it as an AI cold war. It's not about
gadgets or apps. It's about national
survival. And when seen through that
lens, you're going to be able to predict
a lot more of what's about to come.
Because when countries are overburdened
by debt and a sense of global threat to
their hedgeimonyy as the US feels right
now, populism kicks in and it becomes
existential to maintain your advantage.
The US is $36 trillion in debt and
climbing fast. There are literal riots
in the streets right now and we're going
up against a disciplined and hungry
China. As Alex Karp, the controversial
CEO of Palunteer has noted, either we
win or China will win. And that's going
to matter not just to the US, but the
world at large. There's another
psychological principle that you've got
to understand. If you want to identify
how the US China conflict is going to
impact the development of AI, you have
to look at it through the lens of game
theory and something called the
prisoners dilemma. That snaps this
moment into focus real fast. If you
don't know it, the prisoner's dilemma is
a scenario where two individuals face a
choice. Cooperate or betray each other.
If both cooperate, they get a moderate
benefit. If one betrays while the other
cooperates, the betrayer gains more and
the cooperator loses badly. But if they
both betray, they both lose, just not as
much. The paradox is that even though
mutual cooperation is best, rational
self-interest often leads both sides to
defect. Here's how it looks when you
apply it to the US versus China as it
relates to AI. Cooperation would be a
global agreement is struck to slow or
pause AI development. Defection would
mean secretly or openly continuing
aggressive development for strategic
gain despite the global agreement. If
China defects while the US cooperates,
China gains technological, economic, and
military supremacy. If the US defects
while China cooperates, the reverse
occurs. But if both defect, which is the
default outcome, without binding trust,
they both sprint into a highstakes arms
race, regardless of all the massive
risks that that entails. Given that
reality, here's why the US must assume
China will defect in real life. One,
there are no enforceable mechanisms to
verify global compliance on AI
development. Two, China has publicly
declared its goal to lead the world in
AI by 2030. The race is literally on.
Three, in previous tech races, nuclear,
space, quantum, cooperation has been
rare. Containment and escalation have
proven to be the norm. Four, the cost of
being wrong, of pausing while your rival
accelerates, is truly existential in a
world where AI will determine strategic
advantage. Therefore, rational actors
applying game theory would act exactly
as the US and China are acting right
now. Assume affection, build fast, and
prioritize strategic advantage even if
that accelerates other risks. That's why
in 2017, China launched its national AI
strategy with a single bold objective,
global leadership in AI by 2030. That's
4 and a half years from now. Some
reports claim that they're backing it
with brute force developing hundreds of
AI mega data centers that are already
built or under construction. Many are
apparently colllocated with vast solar,
wind, and hydroelect electric projects.
In provinces like Gangu and King Hai,
data centers are being hardwired
directly into renewable grids to ensure
that their AI programs have all the
energy they need. The US, by contrast,
is winning on compute. Our semiconductor
design still leads the world. We control
critical choke points. Nvidia chips,
Dutch lithography machines, Taiwanese
fabs. Trump's administration even
launched a hundred billion dollar
initiative to build domestic AI
supercomputing centers. Biden also kept
the pressure up. Export controls slam
China's access to advanced chips. The
goal being to maintain a compute lead
and delay China's. But here's the
problem. China is catching up fast.
Their models like DeepSeek R1 are now
within striking distance of OpenAI's
most advanced versions. There's some
controversy around how they did it, but
nonetheless, they are gaining fast.
David Saxs, now acting as the informal
AIAR under Trump, warned in a Fox
interview that America may have a 3 to
sixmonth lead at best. That lead could
vanish overnight. And here's the real
problem. We might dominate in chip
design, but China has more energy.
They've built 27 nuclear reactors in the
past decade with 23 more under
construction. The US just two. And AI is
an energy monster. The International
Energy Agency projects data centers will
use more power than the entire nation of
Japan by 2030. The entire nation of
Japan. If AI is a weapon, and it most
certainly is, and you don't have the
power to run your models, you don't have
the power to defend your country. That's
not hyperbole. The armies of the future
will be made largely of AI powered
robots and drones. We can see it already
in the Russia Ukraine conflict. Soldiers
are being chased down by drones. And
Operation Spiderweb, which allowed
Ukraine to strike deep into the heart of
Russia without the need for local
soldiers, was only possible because of
AI. Autonomous drones are rapidly
becoming the standard, and it's only
going to get more so from here. That's
why any talk of an AI pause is pure
fantasy at this point. Echoing Karp's
statement, one US AI policy adviser
said, "Any pause could let China surge
ahead." Both Thusidities's trap and game
theory make it clear the US is not going
to let that happen. Certainly not
without a fight. When the stakes are
global hedgeimony, no one takes their
foot off the gas. AI is the new great
game. the 21st century space race. But
instead of rockets, it's language models
and metallic dogs with machine guns.
Regulation isn't coming. Restraint is
not viable. This is the age of
escalation because every player knows
whoever hesitates loses. But who cares,
right? That's nation state stuff. That
doesn't affect your daily life.
Unfortunately, that's just not true. I
went through all of that so you would
not waste your time praying that someone
somehow slows this train down. This
train is only speeding up. It is full
steam ahead for AI. And if you think
that's not going to affect you, welcome
to part four. AI is a tsunami that will
consume everything and usher in a
devastating utopia. Yes, utopia. In
2004, the Indian Ocean tsunami swallowed
everything in its wake. I routinely
think of that guy on the beach who
simply stood there as the angry wall of
water devoured him. AI is that tsunami.
The question is, what does the world
look like when the water never recedes?
In 1968, a researcher built a paradise
for mice. Unlimited food, clean nests,
no predators. Sounds awesome, right?
Nope. Within 2 years, society collapsed,
violence skyrocketed, the mice isolated
themselves, and mass infertility swept
the colony. It wasn't scarcity that
killed them. It was abundance. The study
is known as mouse utopia and it may
offer a glimpse into what happens when
we get everything we ever wanted as AI
promises to do. Let's lay out how it
might go. AI is going to take our jobs,
all of them. Why? Because it's going to
be so much better than us at everything.
The hard truth is AI is getting smart,
really smart. And AI does not have to
outsmart us by much to completely
dominate us. Let me give you an example
for scale. A a literal is
technically someone with an IQ of about
70. The average IQ in the US is 98.
Einstein was estimated to be 160. That's
only 2.3 times smarter than a And
yet, he had insights that gave birth to
nuclear power and nuclear bombs, not to
mention lasers, GPS, and a whole lot
more. Said another way, a little
intelligence goes a long way. An AI
isn't going to be a little smarter than
Einstein. It's going to be a lot
smarter. Not five times smarter or 10
times or even 10,000 times smarter.
We're talking millions of times smarter.
In case you think I'm exaggerating,
futurist Ian Pearson told the World
Government Summit that AI could become
billions of times smarter than humans.
How? Because AI isn't limited by the
messy chemical laden realities of being
a meatag like we humans are. We have to
wait roughly 20 years for the next
generation to be born, grow to sexual
maturity, and have more kids. AI, on the
other hand, is a non-biological system
that is only limited by the laws of
physics. AI will be able to think at the
speed of light and will only be limited
by the everinccreasing rate at which it
can learn to configure electrons in
novel ways. Now, if you're finding this
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history tells us about the disruption
caused by technological advancements. AI
is going to change everything about our
lives. As we approach the technological
singularity, the point beyond which
things change so rapidly, we can no
longer meaningfully predict even the
near future, we won't recognize our
world from one day to the next. Ray
Kerszurs, the man who has been
predicting the future with 87% accuracy
for roughly four decades now, says the
technological singularity will happen
around 2045, 20 years from now. But
remember, it's not binary. That's the
finish line. We're already headed down
the path. Skills that took decades to
master will be downloadable prompts.
Living in LA, I can hear the sound of
Hollywood dying in real time. The
patterns that make hit songs are already
being mapped. AI can now compose full
orchestras to replicate dead artists
with eerie precision. I heard a rap song
yesterday that when I was showing to
people, they did not realize that it was
fake. In computer code, AI writes,
debugs, and refactors faster than junior
developers. And it's only getting better
and faster. In my own company, we've
been building a video game for the past
three years. And what used to take us
three months and 10 people can now be
done in an afternoon, literally by one
person at only slightly lower quality.
Even a script like this one, it used to
take me a month to research, outline,
and write. Now, with AI at my side, I
can do it in a week. And it won't be
long before someone, anyone, can oneshot
a video like this in my voice or
anyone's voice. Fanfiction is already
off the charts. And most, if not all,
music, writing, movies, TVs, painting,
books, all of it is going to be created
with AI. And that's just the tip of the
iceberg. Lawyers, accountants, doctors,
even surgeons, all of them will see
their numbers diminish for sure and
eventually probably eliminated.
Ironically though, AI taking our jobs
isn't the scary part. The scary part is
that it's going to usher in a utopia.
Now, I can't believe this is true, but
The Matrix actually predicted the
problem with a technological utopia back
in 1999. Agent Smith explains to Neo
that originally the Matrix was designed
to be a utopia, but people couldn't
handle it and the Matrix was rejected.
Going back to mouse utopia, animals,
including humans, just weren't designed
for the easy life. We're designed to
struggle against the odds. But
technology is the way that we reduce
that friction and make everything
easier. Whether it's fire, the internal
combustion engine, computers, or AI
we're talking about technology is the
promise of a better, easier future. And
on paper, that's exactly what's going to
happen. As the rate of progress picks
up, AI will drive the cost of energy to
effectively zero. It will make it
possible to capture all or virtually all
of the energy coming from the sun. And
there is enough energy coming from the
sun to do and build anything we have
ever wanted. And once energy is free,
robotic labor will be free. Once robotic
labor is free, we will truly be living
in an age of abundance. Education will
be AIdriven, personalized, and always
on. Housing effectively will be free.
Everyone will have robot assistants
doing anything they don't want to do.
And voila, we're the people from Wall-E.
Obese and riding around in chairs,
barely able to stand up. Everything will
be easier and cheaper. But will it be
better? In a world without friction,
without necessity, without effort, what
is it that's going to give life meaning?
In a world where automatic forces
threaten to suck us into the abyss, how
do we take control and avoid the traps
laid out before us? Welcome to part
five. Where do we go from here? Five
steps to mastering the AI revolution.
Two stories, both true. One will break
your heart, the other will light the way
forward. In 2023, the release of a
largely unknown AI model called Chat GPT
bankrupted a billion-doll company in
roughly 72 hours. The company was called
Cheg. It was a titan of online
education. But nonetheless, AI snuffed
it out almost overnight. No mercy for
the founder who lost everything or the
employees who suddenly had no job. One
of the countless examples of the old
getting killed by the new. Next, in
2024, a 21-year-old college dropout used
AI to build a startup that outsmarted
Microsoft's hiring system, landing this
dropout $25 million in funding. All
without him needing to write a single
line of code. A tale of two companies,
both controlled by AI. One destroyed by
it because they didn't know how to use
it, and the other never could have
existed without it. We'll all go down
one of those two paths. The only
question is which one? Assuming you want
to win, here are the five steps to
mastering the AI revolution. One, master
the AI tools. Learn all of them. Chat,
GPT, Manis, V3, Midjourney, Claude,
Sonnet, and whatever else comes next.
Prompt like a master. Chain tools
together. Build automations for any
repetitive tasks. Start fine-tuning your
own models if you're brave enough. Build
custom GPTs and find ways to craft
systems that no one else has. If you
don't know what those words mean, look
them up now or you really will get left
behind. Train your own social algorithm
to keep you aware of everything that's
going on at the bleeding edge of AI. It
moves fast and you want to make sure
that you see what's going on. Experiment
and get your hands dirty. There is no
substitute for actually using these AI
tools and seeing exactly what they're
capable of, including where they fall
apart. You will often have to wade
through a river of endless hype to get
to the actual tools that are truly
revolutionary, but you will be shocked
by how far AI can extend your
capabilities. Two, build something real.
Write books, build tools, teach skills,
make games, license content. It is truly
never been easier. And this window is
going to close fast. Soon the world is
going to be flooded with builders, but
for now you're in a magic window where
shockingly few people have actually
mastered the tools and are creating with
them. This moment reminds me a lot of
YouTube back in like 2014. There was
competition, but if you had something
valuable to offer, you could make
millions. I know because I did it with
no previous experience. It's all about
learning fast and moving even faster.
Three, play to the fringes. The edges
are where you're going to find the
opportunities that are unguarded. That's
where the leverage is. My company,
Quest, launched at the height of the
Great Recession and sold for a billion
dollars. Same for Shopify. And today,
it's worth over $100 billion. Why do
these companies still work even in the
worst economic environment since the
Great Depression? Because a crisis opens
up opportunities. It's your job to take
advantage of them. Ask yourself, what
does AI make possible that wasn't
possible before? What niche audience was
impossible to serve before AI? What was
previously too expensive but now can be
done very cheaply? Find a forgotten or
underserved niche. Figure out where the
freaks and geeks are that have a rabid
appetite for your idea. Apple of all
companies started in a super nerdy
obscure computer club. My own YouTube
content, which has now been viewed over
a billion times, started inside of a
protein bar company. Great things often
start in small, diehard communities.
Find them and serve them with the
leverage that AI gives you. Jeff Bezos
started Amazon when only 14% of
Americans had internet access. Do not
wait until AI has saturated the market,
which is happening fast. If you want to
win big, get started immediately. Work
on nights and weekends if you have to.
There's no need to quit your day job.
Just start building in your spare time.
AI speeds everything up. Use that to
your advantage. All right, that's all
I'm going to say about building. The
first three steps to mastering AI are
about the narrow window of time that
we're in right now before AI beats us at
everything. Once that happens, and it
will, I certainly hope I've been able to
convince you of that by now, you're
going to need these next two steps.
Four, find meaning by doing hard things
that matter. The only thing worth
pursuing in the long run is fulfillment.
Fulfillment is the one neurochemical
state that will survive even grief.
Fulfillment is about making sure you
have meaning and purpose in your life.
And fulfillment comes from a very simple
formula. You have to work really hard to
gain a set of skills that matter to you
for your own reasons that allow you to
make progress towards an honorable goal.
Notice I didn't say achieve it to make
progress. If you achieve it, great. But
don't tie your identity up in that. It's
about becoming the kind of person that
you would respect. It never ceases to
amaze me how simple humans really are
until the day that AI makes it possible
to synthesize and edit our DNA on mass.
What ultimately dictates the quality of
a human life is how you feel about
yourself when you're by yourself. Don't
lose sight of that. Five, fall in love
and raise a family. This may feel like
it's out of left field for a video about
navigating a world that is changing so
rapidly most people will be paralyzed by
overwhelm, but here's the truth. We need
meaning and purpose. We need to love and
be loved. We need to do hard things. And
while I cannot speak from experience, I
can see from an evolutionary perspective
that having kids is what nature wants us
to do. There are built-in algorithms
running in your brain that will reward
you for having and raising kids.
And I can't think of any better default
way to have deep meaning and purpose
than to raise children. Well, there are
no universals in life, but I think you
deviate from that path at your own risk.
I don't have kids, so I know you can do
that well, but it requires some extra
planning if you want to make sure your
life has meaning. No matter what happens
with AI, love and family will be
constants, at least until humans become
fully synthetic. But that's a whole
another video. Ultimately, your life
should be full of joy. And while I
expect that AI is going to knock a lot
of people down, and I think a great many
people are going to have a very tough
time adapting, the reality is that how
we respond to this radical change is
going to be up to us. Some people will
get fully augmented and travel to Mars.
Others will move to a farm off the grid
and reject technology completely. That
much we all get to choose. Let me leave
you with this. AI is rewriting our world
faster, vaster, and more brutally than
any revolution in human history. There
has never been anything like it. Not the
printing press or gunpowder,
electricity, or even atomic energy. But
history shows over and over that
disruption carves paths to progress, but
only for those who move. The US and
China's AI arms race guarantees that
this train will not stop. Many will be
paralyzed by overwhelm. Others will die
in mouse utopia. But we all have a
choice. And if I were to suggest one, it
would be to push for sensible
regulation. Choose the hard path of
meaning and purpose and master the tools
while that still matters. Whether it's 2
years or 20 years away, don't just stand
there on the beach and let the tsunami
take you. Have the courage to take on
whatever comes next and push yourself to
the limit. Remember, the future isn't
some faroff thing. It's happening right
now and it's moving a lot faster than
you think. All right, guys. If you want
to see me explore ideas like this live
in real time, make sure that you're
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there. Take care. If you like this
conversation, check out this episode to
learn more. True story. Six men
representing 25% of the world's wealth
meet on a private train. No last names,
no press, no records. If anyone asks,
they're going duck hunting in Georgia,
but they're not going duck