Feldman argues AI gives humanity a real shot that neither our children nor anyone they know will die of cancer — the defining pro on the ledger of AI's costs and benefits.
Snapshot · All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Feldman argues AI gives humanity a real shot that neither our children nor anyone they know will die of cancer — the defining pro on the ledger of AI's costs and benefits.
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Feldman takes the conversation into longer time horizons. The fundamental constraint on human knowledge is that paradigms shift at the speed of generations: Thomas Kuhn showed us that Freud, Skinner, and their disciples maintained intellectual dominance not because their ideas were right, but because they held positions of leadership until they died. New ideas have to wait for the old guard to exit. AI breaks this constraint. Feldman reaches for the geneticist's tool: fruit flies produce two generations per day, allowing researchers to observe thousands of generations of evolution in a single career. AI is now doing the equivalent for knowledge — compressing what previously took centuries of human intellectual turnover into near-instantaneous iterative cycles. He closes with the Palace of Versailles as metaphor: the builders who worked on century-long projects across multiple family generations were doing recursive, compounding learning. AI is that, but at the speed of compute.
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Nikesh Arora of Palo Alto Networks told Jason Calacanis that testing a frontier AI model against their own systems was devastating — it found critical bugs in hours that their own team had missed. They halted everything for six weeks of emergency patching. That's the case for government red teaming in a single anecdote.
Nikesh Arora of Palo Alto Networks told Jason Calacanis that when tested with a frontier AI model, it found unknown critical bugs — forcing the company to halt operations and patch for six weeks.
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