That’s a cool thing. And Jeremy, to kind of loop back around and offer summary. These AI systems are going to get better and better at simulating things that it can’t really do now. It will be stimulating our brainstem, and our sympathetic and parasympathetic systems in the same way that a scary movie never puts us in the kind of danger that we love. It is about adrenaline. And that’s what pornography provides. The young people know it’s not for them, but it’s better than being alone. It’s better than nothing. I’m never going to get good at basketball, but I can play basketball on the PlayStation. I’m never going to get good at football, but I can play football on the PlayStation. What if we can build these tools so that you can be good at relationships? So, you can be a better pack animal. You can be a better social ape. You can better interpret the grunts and whistles and clicking and popping that we all do with each other—that we call speech.

What if I can actually understand you better than ever before? Because, I mean, the last 24 hours [presidential election] has shown that better understanding is needed. We are more apart than we have ever been, and we don’t understand each other. And half the country is completely shocked at the other half of the country’s choices this morning. All of our tools are designed around that being the case, because dopamine is confirmation bias. Confirmation bias generates dopamine. So, you get this echo chamber of familiar sounds that appear to be offering the truth. “I’m doing great. I know the truth. I’m a good person. The people on the other side are the bad guys. We’re the good guys.” It’s easy to get into that mind-set.

Our tool helps you understand those people who are different. And that’s what we need to get better at achieving. We must get better at appreciating that our society is composed of many different kinds of people. Our communities are made up of families, and these are made out of dads and moms, and kids who want to be loved and feel safe. These are parents who want to know that their kid has a future. These folks just have a different set of priorities or beliefs about how to make it happen—but we can actually talk to each other. And that is so missing right now on a political scale. Healthcare is so transactional at six or seven minutes a patient that you’re not getting that depth. Teenagers are falling into screens and plugged into these more than they are having face-to-face conversations. And college roommates literally type to each other while they’re in the same room now. And that is now a very reasonable thing—that they will be typing to each other with their backs to each other while they’re in the same room or in the next room. And that is normal now, and that is weird. And the defining technology on the planet right now is better understood by kids than grownups. This is weird, because that means grownups can’t teach the kids how to use it. And they’re figuring it out as they go.

The mental picture I have for all of this is based on Greek fairy tales. There are all the Greek tales of giving godlike powers to mere mortals, and it just goes bad every damn time. We’ve got a couple thousand-year-old stories that just show us you can’t just keep giving more powers to these people if they don’t care. And one of the great things about the gods is they don’t give a shit about people. And that arrogance makes it really easy for abuse to happen. And you look at our society. There is that abuse from the technology–and there is only one story in Greek mythology that goes well in this respect. It is the story of Cupid. And it is the one where love and collaboration between a demigod and a human work together. Its Cupid and Psyche. They come together. That is the rare exception in Greek tales of a wonderful, happy ending, because of love and collaboration. And I think that is a nice corrective given the dominance of science, it’s good to bring out the humanities every now and again.