We woke up in a thriller movie

Book analogy:

• If human history were a 500-page book, every page is 2 centuries
• We become hunter-gatherers on page 450 with very slight biological pages
• Page 490 is Jesus
• Islam is on page 493
• Countries are page 497
• Beginning of page 500 is industrial revolution
  • Population goes from under 1bn to over 7bn
  • Communication moves from spoken word to facetime
  • Transport goes from walking to space-crafts
• We are born at the beginning of page 501, nothing could be more exciting

We are wired for a world where nothing ever changes

Everyone wants to succeed, tragedy of the commons, technology is too dangerous to have no moral guidance

Build structures that drive shitty selfish people to do the right thing

Whatever society / culture deems to be important is what everyone will value and try do

AI safety is the great challenge of our time, who is going to be the person who saves humanity

If knowledge spectrums range from 1-10, you can either be a 10 on 3 things or an 6 on 50 things

Goes down roads himself from 2 to 6 then takes readers down the road in a much more fun way

In echo chambers there are no white blood cells to kill the virus

We shouldn’t be so dogmatic as a civilization

Ideas clash and the dust settles and then the truth is what is left