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0:00 – Introduction
2:56 – Exponential growth
7:24 – Elon Musk exponential thinking
9:41 – Moore’s law is a series of revolutions
15:03 – GPT-3
16:42 – Autonomous vehicles
23:43 – Electricity
28:12 – Productivity
33:19 – Why is Twitter and Facebook free?
43:36 – Dismantling the nature of truth
46:56 – Nutpicking and Cancel Culture
53:11 – How will AI change our world
59:12 – Existential threats
1:01:05 – AI and the nature of work
1:07:11 – Thoughts on Andrew Yang and UBI
1:13:03 – Economics of innovation
1:19:09 – Effect of COVID on the economy
1:28:22 – MIT and Stanford
1:32:56 – Book recommendations
1:36:01 – Meaning of life
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