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The speaker says they do not know how society should prevent widespread mindless consumerism, but suggests that a superintelligent AI oracle might offer useful ideas.
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“What are we going to do as a society to prevent that?”
“And there my answer is just, I don't know, let's ask the super intelligent AI oracle, maybe it has good ideas.”Play from 2:22:50Report a misattribution
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