Internet

Liz Smith, the New York Post.

And, of course, that was, you know, pre-Internet.

But now we have the Internet, and it's, you know, gossip— a thousand times worse.

So yes, that's a factor.

Well, we are back.

So, like I said, I'm going to read you some advice from Internet people, which, again, most of the time is a very, like, scary thing to think about because, oh, my goodness, what even is the Internet anymore? But there's some really good ones.

And so if you've been someone who has contributed some of this on social media, I really appreciate it.

If you're listening to this and have like some great tips you'd like to share, I'd love to hear those too.

As a species, we're not fully prepared to confront this yet.

If you think about r- just very recent history, smartphones happened to us, the internet happened to us, social media happened to us.

And I hate to sound too Pollyanna-ish here, and I, I probably don't because I am the guy who made AI and Psychosis and AI and the Apocalypse, but I am actually pretty optimistic.

I think that if we have these discussions, I think if we as a society, if we as a civilization, if we as a species decide what we want AI to do for us and how we want to integrate AI into our world, we can avoid some of the problems that we've seen with these other technologies.

Your book covers a lot of ground.

The Internet Will Die and So Will You.

What made you want to connect- These ideas of the internet and human death

When I have a good day offline, it is oftentimes one where I have a lot of presence, where I'm able to see, kind of right-size my problems, where I'm able to really get a good perspective on things, where I'm able to...

Yes.

We love Internet fucking nonsense.

Strange.

We love it.

We love the fact that anybody wants to go out and just do some shit in the Internet.

Because guess what? We've done our entire career.

Yep.

Just went out and done some shit on the Internet in the style of the things that we love.