{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Limitless: An AI Podcast","title":"The Intelligence Curse: How AGI Makes Us All Obsolete | Luke Drago & Rudolf","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/fa5529a3\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5369,"description":"Welcome to Limitless. Today we’re joined by Luke Drago and Rudolf, authors of the powerful essay series \"The Intelligence Curse.\" \nTogether, 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? \nWe 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.\n------\n💫 LIMITLESS | SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW\nhttps://pod.link/1813210890\nhttps://www.youtube.com/@Limitless-FT\nhttps://x.com/LimitlessFT\n------\nTIMESTAMPS\n0:00 What is the Intelligence Curse\n4:29 Resource Curse\n8:20 Pyramid Replacement\n18:19 Institutional Pushback\n21:25 Capital, AGI & Human Ambition\n32:00 Liberalism Falls Apart?\n36:30 Powerful Actors\n41:15 Rentier States\n46:19 Human Labor in a AGI World\n52:46 Nation States\n57:37 Shaping the Social Contract\n1:06:23 AI Snake Oil?\n1:07:41 Balance of Power\n1:08:51 Breaking the Intelligence Curse\n1:16:45 Vitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism\n1:18:16 Diffusion \n1:19:58 Open-Source AI\n1:22:06 Democratization\n1:24:06 Who WIns?\n1:26:43 Action Items\n1:29:17 The Positive Scenario\n1:30:21 Closing\n------\nRESOURCES\nLuke Drago\nhttps://x.com/luke_drago_ \nRudolf Laine\nhttps://x.com/LRudL_ \nIntelligence Curse\nhttps://intelligence-curse.ai/ \nTime Op-ed\nhttps://time.com/7289692/when-ai-replaces-workers/ \nContact Form\nhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft2iBV9z1AYsM3TcDnh8z3juc2k4yD0TQTZ91oy37S-KlSSQ/viewform \nAI Snake Oil - Arvind Narayanan\nhttps://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai-snake-oil \nVitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism \nhttps://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html \n------\nNot financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:\nhttps://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠ ","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/9Lu_z789-IzrmA97ogEUWzbSPY69Dj70clUckomsGq8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9iYjA3/N2UyODc0NjIzZWFh/NWU2ZDBjODE3MTQ0/ZTJmYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}