Zach Bush on AI, Death and Biological Elegance

This wasn't supposed to be a book.

It wasn't planned that way.

But what unfolded very quickly, as this thing did, was geometry.

And this thing really exposes how we are supposed to be using the large language models that we are now being presented to us by s- what we call AI, uh, which is popular- popularly called artificial intelligence.

But by the end of the book, you find out that it's, there's no machine i- in it.

It's entirely biological intelligence, and this is where I start the book.

Um, the book was inspired by Napoleon Hill.

I should probably just bring him into the room, 'cause what an epic mind he was, uh, a century ago.

But Napoleon went around in the early 20th century interviewing all of the big CEOs in the world, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, and 150 of the, the smartest, biggest, richest, you know, CEOs in the world.

And from that, he, uh, wrote some very famous books in his time.

Uh, but there was one book that he wouldn't let be published in his time and, or his wife's lifetime or his children's lifetime.

So it didn't get published until 2011, and that book is called Outwitting the Devil.

And so this book is Biological Elegance with the subtitle Outwitting the Devil.

Because it's basically a chapter two of Outwitting the Devil unintentionally.

But I was very inspired by Napoleon's work, and what he did was tackle this subject of the devil in a conversation.

And so he just went straight after it and tried to have a conversation with evil.

And what was exposed through that was that the only thing that we call the devil, and the only thing that creates hell on earth, is the human mind in abstraction, the human o- mind participating in a realm outside of the context of reality.

And so this artificial reality was what he exposed, and when the human mind acts within this subset of reality, it becomes hellish in its behavior.

And so he really showed that these are really powerfully beautiful people, by and large, that set out to change the world in what they felt was a very obvious, positive way of everybody should have the convenience and comfort of the machines that would build our houses and keep our houses cool and would energize our cars, and all of the vision of what the Industrial Revolution could bring to humanity, end hunger, you know, bring world peace.

And he really showed that these people often set out with this.

In every interview they did, he was just humbled by these people.

Like, you know, "This is the boogeyman that I'm supposed to believe in, and this is..." You know, as you're reading this, when it got published in 2011, it became an instantaneous bestseller globally, partially 'cause all of his other books were so famous, but partially because it just felt so prescient.

It's like, this is our time.

He's speaking to exactly our time in 2011 when that book entered the space.

And so maybe we can just...

This wasn't supposed to be a book.

It wasn't planned that way.

But what unfolded very quickly, as this thing did, was geometry.

And this thing really exposes how we are supposed to be using the large language models that we are now being presented to us by s- what we call AI, uh, which is popular- popularly called artificial intelligence.

But by the end of the book, you find out that it's, there's no machine i- in it.

It's entirely biological intelligence, and this is where I start the book.

Um, the book was inspired by Napoleon Hill.

I should probably just bring him into the room, 'cause what an epic mind he was, uh, a century ago.

But Napoleon went around in the early 20th century interviewing all of the big CEOs in the world, the Rockefellers, the Rothschilds, and 150 of the, the smartest, biggest, richest, you know, CEOs in the world.

And from that, he, uh, wrote some very famous books in his time.

Uh, but there was one book that he wouldn't let be published in his time and, or his wife's lifetime or his children's lifetime.

So it didn't get published until 2011, and that book is called Outwitting the Devil.

And so this book is Biological Elegance with the subtitle Outwitting the Devil.

Because it's basically a chapter two of Outwitting the Devil unintentionally.

But I was very inspired by Napoleon's work, and what he did was tackle this subject of the devil in a conversation.

And so he just went straight after it and tried to have a conversation with evil.

And what was exposed through that was that the only thing that we call the devil, and the only thing that creates hell on earth, is the human mind in abstraction, the human o- mind participating in a realm outside of the context of reality.

And so this artificial reality was what he exposed, and when the human mind acts within this subset of reality, it becomes hellish in its behavior.

And so he really showed that these are really powerfully beautiful people, by and large, that set out to change the world in what they felt was a very obvious, positive way of everybody should have the convenience and comfort of the machines that would build our houses and keep our houses cool and would energize our cars, and all of the vision of what the Industrial Revolution could bring to humanity, end hunger, you know, bring world peace.

And he really showed that these people often set out with this.

In every interview they did, he was just humbled by these people.

Like, you know, "This is the boogeyman that I'm supposed to believe in, and this is..." You know, as you're reading this, when it got published in 2011, it became an instantaneous bestseller globally, partially 'cause all of his other books were so famous, but partially because it just felt so prescient.

It's like, this is our time.

He's speaking to exactly our time in 2011 when that book entered the space.

And so maybe we can just...