June 2, 2025 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Now, here's my rant. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I don't care. | |
| I look within, right? | |
| I look within. | |
| And I try to be honest with you. | |
| I aim to be honest with you guys. | |
| I don't care. | |
| So some of the studies are not great with regards to AI and productivity. | |
| There was one study about managers that... | |
| Computers had a sort of similar thing. | |
| Everyone said, oh my god, computers are going to make us so much more efficient. | |
| It's not really the case. | |
| Human beings adapt to technology and have an amazing genius at finding ways to destroy productivity gains. | |
| From technology. | |
| It's really quite remarkable how we're able to do that. | |
| So, oh, email is going to be so much more efficient. | |
| No, because sometimes phone calls are much better, right? | |
| I mean, a lot of people who have social anxiety just end up emailing all the time. | |
| They're not very good at communicating. | |
| You can't read between the lines, whereas you can read people's emotions with regards to especially face-to-face calls. | |
| You can read people's emotions on a phone call much better than you can an email. | |
| And of course, The email flood. | |
| Oh, it's so much easier. | |
| Now we have Zoom. | |
| Or now we have other things. | |
| We can just do these meetings in so much more of an efficient manner. | |
| My God, it's beautiful. | |
| It's like, no. | |
| Now you just have a bunch of made-up HR jobs where people have endless meetings with no particular purpose or point. | |
| So we have an amazing ability to completely screw up productivity gains. | |
| Now, in a free society, that wouldn't really be the case, of course. | |
| But it certainly is the case in the society that we have now. | |
| I have to watch this tendency in myself to not keep tinkering and fussing with things to the point where I wreck the productivity gains of having all of this great technology. | |
| So, for instance, I've done some article reviews recently, and I just hold my tablet, and I'm not, oh, let's do the separate, slightly better audio with the, you know, all of this. | |
| It's like, no, just boot it up and talk into the microphone. | |
| It's fine. | |
| It's fine. | |
| And to not fuss with massive productivity gains. | |
| As you can see, you know, the studio here is not very sophisticated. | |
| It is me inside an aging ping-pong ball of grey testicle doominess. | |
| And I really want you guys to focus on the ideas and the arguments and not be distracted by some sort of background nonsense. | |
| So there is that. | |
| Now, on the other hand, I think that the technology is a lot further ahead than people think. | |
| I've worked in tech R&D. | |
| And the stuff that's in the pipeline is way better than the stuff that's out here in the world. | |
| And so I think with regards to physical robots, everyone's like, yeah, but they can't clean toilets. | |
| Yeah, they can. | |
| Yeah, but they can't, you know, assemble this out of the other. | |
| It's like, yes, they can. | |
| They really can do absolutely wild and amazing stuff. | |
| Now, they can't do philosophy yet. | |
| I'll give you sort of an example of an AI productivity that I used. | |
| I'm working on this new novel, which is, oh my god, it's so good. | |
| Oh my god, it's so good. | |
| You know, sometimes I amaze even myself. | |
| It's an old line from Star Wars. | |
| But no, it's really, I've had a real breakthrough in writing and all of that. | |
| So I needed to... | |
| Now, in the past, I'd have buried myself in books and done research for a week or two. | |
| But with AI, you can just say, give me this scenario, give me a Canadian context, and whatever, right? | |
| And it can map it all out for you and get all the research done together for you. | |
| It's really amazing as far as that goes. | |
| So for me, it is really helpful and good for these kinds of things because... |
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