What you're basically telling everyone is: You can go over there and talk about Jigglypuff, and go over here and spew your racist, hateful crap. And it normalizes the latter.
There are plenty of places on the internet to go find that stuff. Just not at our Javits Center, so to speak.
The other thing that real life does really nicely, if we keep pushing this analogy, is if you show up in the Pokémon Con and you start spewing really crazy stuff, you get a response from the people around you. At minimum, it's like, bro, that's fucking weird. We don't wanna see that.
We can actually do near-real-time reading of a comment. Let's say you are showing up in the Pokémon community, and this Pokémon community has guidelines that the community has all agreed on.
We've empowered users to say there's content that I just don't want to see. I come into this community for good vibes.
The feedback you can then give to the person who's about to hit Submit is, Hey, just so you know, 10 percent of the community is actually going to see this post because of how inflammatory is. You can still post it, but just so you know. That helps you create this feedback loop that happens all the time in real life.
We actually think that's a feature of civil society. And so if we can bring some part of that online, it improves user experience for everybody.
We like to end with a little game. It's called Control-Alt-Delete. What piece of tech would you love to control? What would you alt, so alter or change? And what would you vanquish from the earth never to be seen or heard from again?
This is a little silly. Can I control Apple to finally help their software? Apple Intelligence, all this stuff's just been so bad.
You go help them out.
Poor Siri. Siri, just limping along there.
What would you alter?
My buddy at Altimeter had this really good vision of getting every kid shares in the stock market when they’re born, like an index fund almost. And he's executed on a pretty good vision of it.
I would alter all of their cap tables. So somehow every single American citizen could have a stake in that success, like basically own shares in it.
There are Anthropic and OpenAI SPVs, these special purpose vehicles—basically people pulling shares together and then getting dollars to fund those shares—that are like six or seven layers deep.
It’s an SPV wrapped in an SPV wrapped in an SPV. The only people who are getting access to that are connected people. And because these companies are all taking longer to go public, there's a ton of value that no one in the public markets has access to.
What are you deleting? What are we vanquishing today?
Extremism. I think we should purge extremism. But again, I'm talking magic-genie stuff. I’m not saying I want to create a government that rounds up anyone deemed an extremist. This is purely hypothetical.
Just wait until it gets taken out of context.
As long as I piss off everyone equally.
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