The first person to break down and reverse engineer the first protein, it took him 12 years to do.

And he took this protein and he crystallized and he shot it with x-rays.

And then he actually used like a ruler and pencil to like connect them together and kind of reverse engineer this.

And then over the course of the next 60 or so years, we were able to finally discover 150,000.

And now because of AI, we've just discovered 250 million.

150,000 to 250 million.

Quite a different number.

And that 250 million was only over the course of like the last two years on change.

It was very quick.

Okay, so David, there's this quote by Steve Jobs that I love that says,

everything around us that we call life is made up by people no smarter than we are.

And if you think about it, it's true.

Like the clothes on our back, everything around us, no one smarter than us has ever made anything that we have here.

And the same is true if we go back like 40,000 years to cavemen.

We're not really even much smarter than they were.

We have the same brain size, roughly, same cognitive ability.

We benefit though from the collective accumulation of knowledge over time.

So it's like this snowball where theirs was very small, but over time it's kind of rolled

down this hill faster and faster and it's grown. And now we benefit from this collective knowledge, but we're not actually

smarter. So the question I think we want to answer in this podcast, and the really interesting

question is like, what happens to the world around us when people are actually smarter than we are?

Like what happens when they're 10% smarter, 20%, 100,000% smarter? And we could ask that question

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