This episode is fascinating, and conveys a lot of good sense on various things from how to organize government to your own life, death, freedom, education etc.
How he hires new ppl with competitions, it’s best not to hire someone than have B players.
Colors based on biological meanings.
All of this is open source.
Difficult to get the UI right so that it’s easy for users. It’s about the feeling in the end.
Most companies don’t risk it and just copy what works.
The most valuable thing he says is about governments though. It’s about understanding why this technology is necessary.
Because of the power struggles linked to identity: people who’s job is in the government will tend to try to increase its power. Theirs.
Any organisation in fact will have corruptible people. So the only way to trust any is to make a system that litteraly cannot be mis-used.
Amazing perspective on abundance, mentioning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink the issue that happened with mices, which is revealing about our current society.
“Some people think you can guide the new generation by speaking words to them, but kids are smart, they look at actions.”
Education
AI doesn’t have conscience the way we mean it but it may have consciesness AI alignment