2022-10-14 · auto-analysis (draft)
Abuses of the American Regulatory System With Balaji Srinivasan | EP #6 Moonshots and Mindsets
The conversation discusses the future of the metaverse, including virtual experiences, AR glasses, and the shift towards remote work and social interactions in VR. The conversation covers the evolution of mobile technology, the impact of technology on remote work and life, the global impact of technology, and predictions about the future of AI in language translation. The podcast discusses the complexity of regulatory systems, particularly focusing on India, and compares the ease of innovation in different contexts, such as starting Bitcoin or reforming the FDA. It also criticizes the U.S. healthcare system and its inefficiency. The conversation covers the impact of regulatory delays, particularly with the FDA, and proposes a 'right to try' program for patients with fatal diseases. It also discusses the need for a moral argument against regulatory systems before moving to a rational anal
Topics
AI AI ▶ 6:16
Metaverse AI|Robotics|Space|Energy|Longevity|Biotech|Compute|Crypto/Web3|Economy|Geopolitics|Health|Transportation|Other ▶ 6:16
Mobile and AR technology Tech ▶ 8:23
Remote work and life Economy ▶ 10:00
Global real estate and technology Geopolitics ▶ 13:00
AI and language translation AI ▶ 15:00
Regulatory Systems Geopolitics ▶ 16:41
Innovation and Regulation Economy ▶ 19:48
Healthcare and Longevity Health ▶ 19:54
Regulatory Inefficiency Geopolitics ▶ 23:34
Right to Try Health ▶ 27:28
Moral vs Rational Arguments Other ▶ 30:21
Longevity Longevity ▶ 32:06
Genetic Editing Biotech ▶ 38:01
Predictions made
open Unknown: Virtual experiences will be measurably better than being there in person.
“have a virtual experience and event that is measurably better than being there in person so that you much rather willing to go there”
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open Unknown: The metaverse will include video games, social networks, workplace chat apps, and crypto.
“Video Games Plus social networks plus workplace chat apps like slack uh plus you know crypto”
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open Unknown: AR glasses will be the hardware enablement for the metaverse and other applications.
“the AR glasses which think are the hardware enablement of it sort of like how people talked about mobile prior to the iPhone”
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open Unknown: Voice translation technology will become available, allowing people to speak into their phone and have it translated into another language with their own voice.
“once that happens you know the obvious you know prediction would be well the language spheres of the world collapse into one thing okay”
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open Unknown: The global internet will likely unify into one language sphere, with the English and Chinese internet spheres becoming less dominant.
“the obvious prediction is right now there's basically two internets there's English internet and the Chinese internet”
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open Balaji Srinivasan: No clear solution to the problem of handling giant amounts of wealth beyond one person.
“I don't have an answer as to what to do with you know giant amounts of wealth and uh you know beyond one person”
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open Balaji Srinivasan: Redesign of governance in the future will be possible, allowing for the improvement of regulatory systems.
“Right in a in a network state in a in we it we're going to have the chance to redesign governance in the future”
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open Unknown: Significant advancements in AI, Quantum Computing, and genomics will enable longer lifespans in the future.
“the amount of progress we're going to be seeing is unfathomable in the form of AI and Quantum Computing and and genomics and understanding so it's not that I have to make those changes today I need to live long enough to build the next bridge to live longer and so forth right”
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open Unknown: Genetic diseases can be cured within the next 10 years through gene editing.
“I think uh CLE cell patient treated with crisper Gene editing s thriving so in Al live patient um and it looks like the modification is actually taking place”
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open Balaji Srinivasan: AI will significantly improve medical imaging, but regulatory bodies like the FDA will continue to hinder its progress.
“FDA has been holding that back all kinds of Medical Imaging stuff for example”
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open Balaji Srinivasan: Telemedicine from India could disrupt the US market with Indian doctors routing services to Indian services with different regulations.
“I think it's quite possible you start seeing tele medicine come in from India right for sure and maybe there's an indian-american doctor over here who's routing it okay and so they're like signing off within the system you have that like legal kind of thing and they're the ones who maybe they send it to an Indian service that has different regulations and that allows you to actually just automatically read this”
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open Balaji Srinivasan: Extreme longevity could be unbalanced for humanity, as it might hinder the colonization of other planets without changing our biological substrate.
“I think that basically for example we're not going to be able to easily colonize other planets um and and terraform them on the time scales there without you know probably changing our biological substrate right”
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