Bankless: LIMITLESS - The Intelligence Curse: AI Makes Us All Obsolete | Luke Drago & Rudolf Interfluidity, Subscribed Podcasts podcast

Bankless: LIMITLESS - The Intelligence Curse: AI Makes Us All Obsolete | Luke Drago & Rudolf

1d ago

Content provided by interfluidity, subscribed podcasts. All podcast content including episodes, graphics, and podcast descriptions are uploaded and provided directly by interfluidity, subscribed podcasts or their podcast platform partner. If you believe someone is using your copyrighted work without your permission, you can follow the process outlined here https://staging.podcastplayer.com/legal.

Welcome to Limitless. Today we’re joined by Luke Drago and Rudolf, authors of the powerful essay series "The Intelligence Curse."

Together, 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?

We 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.

------
💫 LIMITLESS | SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW
https://pod.link/1813210890
https://www.youtube.com/@Limitless-FT
https://x.com/LimitlessFT

------
BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:

🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi
https://bankless.cc/Frax

🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN
https://bankless.cc/unichain

🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK
https://bankless.cc/Mantle

🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELF
https://bankless.cc/Self

🟠HEMI | BTC & ETH, ONE NETWORK
https://bankless.cc/hemi

------
TIMESTAMPS

0:00 What is the Intelligence Curse
4:29 Resource Curse
8:20 Pyramid Replacement
18:19 Institutional Pushback
21:25 Capital, AGI & Human Ambition
32:00 Liberalism Falls Apart?
36:30 Powerful Actors
41:15 Rentier States
46:19 Human Labor in a AGI World
52:46 Nation States
57:37 Shaping the Social Contract
1:06:23 AI Snake Oil?
1:07:41 Balance of Power
1:08:51 Breaking the Intelligence Curse
1:16:45 Vitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism
1:18:16 Diffusion
1:19:58 Open-Source AI
1:22:06 Democratization
1:24:06 Who Wins?
1:26:43 Action Items
1:29:17 The Positive Scenario
1:30:21 Closing

------
RESOURCES

Luke Drago
https://x.com/luke_drago_

Rudolf Laine
https://x.com/LRudL_

Intelligence Curse
https://intelligence-curse.ai/

Contact Form
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft2iBV9z1AYsM3TcDnh8z3juc2k4yD0TQTZ91oy37S-KlSSQ/viewform

AI Snake Oil - Arvind Narayanan
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai-snake-oil

Vitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism
https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html

------
Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here:
https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠

169 episodes