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AI Will Change Social Class: How To Position Yourself
In this episode, Simone and Malcolm dive into the dynamic shifts in social class due to artificial intelligence. They explore historical social disruptions, from the plague to the industrial revolution, and the internet age, to predict how AI will transform social hierarchy. The conversation covers key areas such as technological advancements, new economic opportunities, education, and the importance of elite and entrepreneurial networks. They examine potential winners and losers in this revolution, providing insights and strategies for those aiming to position themselves favorably in the rapidly evolving social landscape. Join us to understand how to navigate and thrive in the era of AI-driven social class changes.
Malcolm Collins: Yeah. Anyway I will let you start. Today's episode is Simone. I'm very excited.
Okay. Okay. Okay, Simone, don't screw this up. Don't, don't screw this up. Okay. Got
this. I'm gonna include all of that, by the way.
Shut. Ah,
Simone Collins: God. Okay. I, how am I? You get to take your pauses and your breaths and you get to cough and drink something.
And I don't get to do anything. I just have to your
Malcolm Collins: cute
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No, I'm not gonna, no, you don't get anything. You don't get anything. Okay. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go. Okay. 3, 2,
Simone Collins: 1. Hello, Malcolm. I'm so excited to be speaking with you today because today we are talking about social class changes in how social class works and how obviously as parents who want to engineer the next ruling class of humans, who of course work in concert with AI, can make sure that our kids in the next period of social class disruption.
End up at the top. This is also for our Patreon supporters. They requested this, so also we're gonna get them to the top. Okay. They deserve to be among the ruling class. But I, it, we need to be aware of the fact that throughout history periods of disruption have enabled clever people to climb social class ranks.
And I mean, consider the plague like from the one from 1347 to or 1352, which killed half of Europeans in, in existence. But that also caused a severe labor shortage and that produced higher wages and better working conditions. So like the right clever kind of person who used to be under the foot of the elites in that society suddenly had this upward mobility they never had before.
They, they could move to different estates, they could demand higher wages. And then I think the last two global events where social class really was disrupted were the industrial revolution and then the internet. And AI is the next big global event to do this.
Malcolm Collins: Well, I think there's been others. I think the rise of TV and radio disrupted social class pretty significantly, where you had this new class of movie stars slash radio stars Yeah.
Which held a position in society. That's interesting. Is that it's sort of degraded into nothing. I mean, we're seeing it rot, we're seeing this yeah. Class that so many people fought to be a part of. So extremely hard. Their entire, you know, lives were fought fighting to become the television star. And now they are finding, or the, the, the news anchor that, you know, they get fewer views than like random internet people and stuff like that.
Yeah. Well that's
Simone Collins: why I see it more of a short-lived thing. It didn't really create, it didn't create, for example Rockefellers. It didn't create you know, the same kinds of. F like the internet, I would say is a bigger one. 'cause that created just huge amounts of wealth creating. Well, I disagree.
Malcolm Collins: I think if you're looking for Rockefellers and people like the, the moguls of that period.
Mm-hmm. The rotter barons. Yeah. I would see that as less of a
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