For me, a computer has always been a bicycle of the mind.

AI is like having the world's best research assistant who never gets tired, who can go down

any rabbit hole I want.

Something that takes us far beyond our inherent abilities.

That's freeing people up to do much more creative work.

And that's really what gives us fulfillment.

We actually are involved in a creative process.

I think that the key question for people who are against it is like, what is the alternative

existence?

Exactly. How do you put the toothpaste back in the tube?

Modern humanity is distinguished by paleolithic emotions.

Medieval institutions and godlike technologies. And it seems like there's fighting between those layers,

which is the emergence of something like Bitcoin,

which is disrupting one of the oldest businesses in the game,

which is central banking.

And I think that we also have no choice in whatever field we're in,

but to say, well, time to re-end myself.

Let's talk about who is Claude Shannon. What is information theory? And then in what ways

is it a precursor to things like internet, Bitcoin, etc. Yeah. So it's a great question.

You've written a couple of books.

A Mind at Play.

And the founders, which is the story of PayPal and the entrepreneurs who shaped Silicon Valley.

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