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Emad Mostaque founded Stability AI, built Stable Diffusion, and helped kick off the open-source generative AI explosion - before stepping down to build a new blueprint for human freedom as founder and CEO of Intelligent Internet. A former hedge fund manager turned tech pioneer, he argues that we have reached the end of our "economic life expectancy," and that within two years, virtually any job that can be done remotely will be done cheaper, faster, and better by artificial intelligence.

Emad and I discuss why 50% of work tasks are about to collapse like a sand pile, the arrival of $1.50-an-hour humanoid robots that fit directly into human-shaped holes, and why the state will inevitably try to license AI and use brain-scanning technology to prevent you from lying.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Your Economic Life Expectancy Ends In 2 Years

00:03:14 - $1.50/Hour Humanoid Robots Are Arriving

00:05:31 - The Collapse Of Remote Work & The Philippines Call Centers

00:09:12 - Lifelike Companions & $160,000 Sex Bots

00:12:00 - The Operating Model Gap Is Solved

00:15:26 - Can A Robot Punch Your Head Off?

00:19:08 - Dark Factories & 80 Companies Building Humanoids

00:24:55 - Why Society Has No Idea What Is Coming

00:29:17 - AI Licensing & Reconstructing Brain Images

00:32:41 - Replacing Government & Policy With AI

00:37:35 - VAR, Football, And Moving The Argument

00:41:48 - Biased AI & Asking ChatGPT How To Fix Culture

00:46:14 - Why The UK Government Ignored $1B AI Founders

00:49:38 - Rewriting The Fundamental Equations Of Economics

00:54:01 - Asimov's Foundation, The Mule & Super-Persuasive AI

00:58:47 - Post-Scarcity & Why UBI Can't Work Under Payroll Taxes

01:03:36 - What Do The Elites Actually Want?

01:09:59 - Monopoly On Violence & Dystopian Control

01:13:18 - All Math And Physics Will Be Solved Next Year

01:17:11 - Why OpenAI Is Slowing Down Super-Genius Models

01:19:07 - 14,000 Tokens A Second & Swarm Intelligence

01:23:46 - Why Plebs Won't Get Access To Frontier AI

01:28:41 - Switching Money To Pay People For Being Human

01:33:08 - Why Emad Started Working In AI 15 Years Ago

01:38:10 - The Fisherman, The Investment Banker, And Adopting Cats

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CONNECT WITH EMAD MOSTAQUE

› Book - thelasteconomy.com - Emad's first book, and Amazon best seller

› Website - cw.ii.inc - How we survive and thrive in the age of AI back to first principles

› Website - ii.inc - Aan AI future to raise all humanity

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