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LIMITLESS - The Intelligence Curse: AI Makes Us All Obsolete | Luke Drago & Rudolf
Manage episode 485420513 series 2730574
Welcome to Limitless. Today we’re joined by Luke Drago and Rudolf, authors of the powerful essay series "The Intelligence Curse."
Together, we explore a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) threatens to upend the economic and social contracts that underpin modern civilization. Will AI empower us or make us obsolete?
We unpack how labor-replacing AI could dismantle the very incentives that once gave rise to liberal democracies, social mobility, and human-centered innovation—and what it might take to build a future worth living in.
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 What is the Intelligence Curse
4:29 Resource Curse
8:20 Pyramid Replacement
18:19 Institutional Pushback
21:25 Capital, AGI & Human Ambition
32:00 Liberalism Falls Apart?
36:30 Powerful Actors
41:15 Rentier States
46:19 Human Labor in a AGI World
52:46 Nation States
57:37 Shaping the Social Contract
1:06:23 AI Snake Oil?
1:07:41 Balance of Power
1:08:51 Breaking the Intelligence Curse
1:16:45 Vitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism
1:18:16 Diffusion
1:19:58 Open-Source AI
1:22:06 Democratization
1:24:06 Who Wins?
1:26:43 Action Items
1:29:17 The Positive Scenario
1:30:21 Closing
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RESOURCES
Luke Drago
https://x.com/luke_drago_
Rudolf Laine
https://x.com/LRudL_
Time Op-ed
https://time.com/7289692/when-ai-replaces-workers/
Intelligence Curse
https://intelligence-curse.ai/
Contact Form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft2iBV9z1AYsM3TcDnh8z3juc2k4yD0TQTZ91oy37S-KlSSQ/viewform
AI Snake Oil - Arvind Narayanan
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai-snake-oil
Vitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html
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Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:
https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
1092 episodes
Manage episode 485420513 series 2730574
Welcome to Limitless. Today we’re joined by Luke Drago and Rudolf, authors of the powerful essay series "The Intelligence Curse."
Together, we explore a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) threatens to upend the economic and social contracts that underpin modern civilization. Will AI empower us or make us obsolete?
We unpack how labor-replacing AI could dismantle the very incentives that once gave rise to liberal democracies, social mobility, and human-centered innovation—and what it might take to build a future worth living in.
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💫 LIMITLESS | SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW
https://pod.link/1813210890
https://www.youtube.com/@Limitless-FT
https://x.com/LimitlessFT
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BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:
🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi
https://bankless.cc/Frax
🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN
https://bankless.cc/unichain
🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK
https://bankless.cc/Mantle
🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELF
https://bankless.cc/Self
🟠HEMI | BTC & ETH, ONE NETWORK
https://bankless.cc/hemi
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TIMESTAMPS
0:00 What is the Intelligence Curse
4:29 Resource Curse
8:20 Pyramid Replacement
18:19 Institutional Pushback
21:25 Capital, AGI & Human Ambition
32:00 Liberalism Falls Apart?
36:30 Powerful Actors
41:15 Rentier States
46:19 Human Labor in a AGI World
52:46 Nation States
57:37 Shaping the Social Contract
1:06:23 AI Snake Oil?
1:07:41 Balance of Power
1:08:51 Breaking the Intelligence Curse
1:16:45 Vitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism
1:18:16 Diffusion
1:19:58 Open-Source AI
1:22:06 Democratization
1:24:06 Who Wins?
1:26:43 Action Items
1:29:17 The Positive Scenario
1:30:21 Closing
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RESOURCES
Luke Drago
https://x.com/luke_drago_
Rudolf Laine
https://x.com/LRudL_
Time Op-ed
https://time.com/7289692/when-ai-replaces-workers/
Intelligence Curse
https://intelligence-curse.ai/
Contact Form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft2iBV9z1AYsM3TcDnh8z3juc2k4yD0TQTZ91oy37S-KlSSQ/viewform
AI Snake Oil - Arvind Narayanan
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai-snake-oil
Vitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html
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Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:
https://www.bankless.com/disclosures
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