What Are We Racing To? AI Assistants, Privacy, and Buying Back Time | The Weekly Blitz

Good morning, Julie Keller.

Good morning, Jason. How are you?

I'm awesome. How are you?

I'm all right. I hurt my neck the other day because, you know, that's just what happens. Old people stuff. I slept funny. And so I still, two days later, am having a hard time looking to the left.

Yikes.

Old people stuff. So is AI going to fix that?

Yes.

That's the question. It's going to fix whatever's happening here.

Yes. Well, if you listen to the Moonshots podcast and all the people that are into how artificial intelligence is going to increase longevity, I mean, there's a guy on the Moonshots podcast that thinks that the first human to live to be 1,000 years old has already been born, that the technology is advancing fast enough it's going to fix all kinds of ailments. Now, I would say that's probably a bit of a stretch, but… You know, I was just having this

conversation.

Oh, sorry.

What? No, you and I are on the same page with that. Like I'm all in on that kind of stuff. I'm definitely all in on that kind of stuff. Me

too. A hundred percent. I was just having a conversation with, uh, with a buddy the other day who's, who you may know, I'm not going to mention it, but he's in his forties and having some heart issues and it's going to have to go get them checked out. And then I'm like, I'm like, you know, at 53 and like, I'm kind of overweight, I will be so

pissed

if like I die. And then a year later they figure out how to fix everything.

Although

I'm not religious and don't really believe in heaven and looking down from heaven. Like if it exists, I'm going to be up there. Like my hell would be just like putting me in a little place and making me watch the fact that all this stuff came to fruition like a year, a year before I passed away.

Yeah. You know, I, uh, I think we're similar. I know that scientifically we are energy, so that energy goes somewhere. Where it goes, I don't know. Will it be able to watch and witness things? I don't know. I have a lot of questions about what happens post this shell passing, but I don't know.

I have always been kind of a traditional Buddhist, and there's a lot of different sects of Buddhism. I mean, it was pre... Many years pre the birth of Christ, so like Chinese folklore is mixed in with a lot. But if you actually read what Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, the creator of Buddhism, wrote, when he spoke of God and eternal life, he basically said that that was beyond human contemplation and a waste of his time, that he was more concerned with suffering in this lifetime and trying to end suffering in this lifetime, that has always very much resonated with me. We're kind of in another one of those existential questions. I feel like trying to define God is a fruitless debate, right? But trying to define how we're going to control superintelligence, something that's far more... We're trying to create God now and then think we're going to control... Whether or not we can create God, okay, that can be debated, right? Or a super intelligent intelligence that's far more intelligent than us. But whether or not we will be able to control it, to me, is kind of an asinine thing to even try to contemplate. That just shows the arrogance of mankind.

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