Then in terms of alter, I don’t know. AI.

How would you alter it?

I would make it more democratic. I would just open up as much of it as I could, because the race is so fast and so expensive. You’re buying and you’re buying all the technology that you can. You’re inventing all the technology you can, and it’s almost immediately out of date. When you’re in that environment, you have to worry about what you’re doing yourself, which is why you see Meta trying to pay all these in insane bonuses to get the best.

It’s wild.

As long as you’ve got the best talent and you’ve got somebody with great ideas, as long as you’ve got your own Jony Ive, using an Apple analogy, you can be more open. You don’t have to be afraid. You don’t have to hold back.

So you want to see AI development move even faster than it already is?

Yes, it has to because China ain’t waiting for nobody.

What happens if China quote-unquote wins that race?

We’re fucked.

First lemme take a step back. Winning, right? There’s still a long way to go. AI still is effectively stupid. It doesn’t have the intuition, it doesn’t have the immediacy of a worldview that people have. So it’s still dumb now. It still makes it smart at processes and the things we’ve talked about, but I don’t see this big general threat in terms of a takeover in the next 20 years.

To sum up, you want to alter AI so that the industry moves faster. We live in the Matrix, but all of the videos that my child is generating using Sora 2, you want me to have a copy?

For sure.

By the way, the best way to know what your kid is into is by looking at their Instagram and TikTok feed. That’ll tell you more about your child. But in any event, that has more impact on everything that happens. And again, going back to politics, whoever controls the algorithm controls the world.

With that in mind, how are we feeling about Larry Ellison today?

To be determined. I won’t jump to any conclusions. Let’s see what happens. Because it could backfire. Just because you have control doesn’t mean you win. There is certainly a risk. But risk not just to the output from the algorithms but risk to how he operates the company. And, you know Zuckerberg’s gonna do all he can to fuck him up, and you know Elon’s gonna do all he can to fuck him up.

That’s the true battle of the oligarchs right there.

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