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that they have to take control and that may not be a bad thing. For example you saw that Amazon, let's say Jeff Bezos it must have been behind it, decided to offer to help with the vaccination rollout. Likewise some other big corporations are helping as well. So if people like Bezos and Elon Musk and Gates are just saying well we're gonna have to solve this ourselves, literally I guess I'll have…
← Previous segment →llars, they are super capable. And if they start asserting themselves because they need to, because with great power comes great responsibility, this might be the way we solve stuff. Because we're going to have to innovate our way out of all of our problems. The only way we protect ourselves against China is to out-innovate. The only way we protect ourselves against losing space is to out-innovate. The only way we get past climate change is to innovate. The only way we can get to an election system that's transparent is to innovate, you know probably some blockchain stuff whatever.
So we've kind of reached this point where the people who matter, the ones who could make a difference are the ones who can understand complicated things and are hyper-capable innovators who can push the right direction and pull the right lever. So we're lucky to have them. And I don't know that our super capables don't get enough credit. Rather than calling them billionaires which makes you automatically biased against them if you don't have a billion dollars yourself, let's just call them super capables. Because Bill Gates he's not like you. He's not like you and me. He's super capable. Like whatever he chooses to do he's probably going to do it better than you would do it. And Elon Musk is the same.
So you know you've got your people like Naval Ravikant, your Peter Thiels. You know there's a lot of people who I'd put in the super capable category and they have begun to assert themselves individually, mostly individually. I don't think they'll end up forming some kind of a billionaire cartel. They could but I don't think their personalities are leaning in that direction. So that's the good news. If you want to know the good news our super capables have decided to step up.
And by the way I'm seeing it in a whole bunch of realms maybe more than you're seeing it because I just have, I know people who know people that sort of thing. And it does seem that the super capables have decided they have to take matters into their own hands.
And now that I've called these people super capable I'll look like a dick for the next thing I'm going to say but if I've taught you anything I'm not afraid of looking like an idiot. So I'm just going to say it because it's useful. I told you that I was going to try to form a group of independent thinkers to review the news to tell you which news is fake news and which news you should depend on. Now I'm on my stolen honeymoon so that won't happen this week but as soon as I get back I'll start putting together some people who can help you sort out what's true and what isn't in the news.
Now why do I do that? Like why isn't that somebody else's job? Why can't the news do it? Why can't the government do anything? Probably not. So I'm just sort of sitting here saying maybe I can fix that you know or at least I could take a shot at it. Maybe learn something. Maybe I can learn what doesn't work.
So I don't put myself anywhere near the Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Naval Ravikant super capable category but I can do some stuff right? I have some powers at a lower level. And so it just felt to me that if I didn't do it it wouldn't get done. And imagine that feeling times 20 if you're Bill Gates or you're Elon Musk. If they don't do it it might not get done.
Do you think Elon Musk offered 100 million dollars for carbon capture technology because he thought it would happen without him? Probably not. He probably thought there's a good chance this isn't going to happen unless I personally make it happen. That is one hell of a responsibility to h
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ave on you. And my god we are so lucky, so lucky that the hyper capables are on our side. All right. There are probably more American hyper capables or super capables than anywhere else and I don't know why. Some of it is the people we've attracted to this country. Some of it is our entrepreneurial way of life promotes this sort of thing better than other places. Maybe it's cultural. I don't know…
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