One thing in the podcast I found really interesting from a personal pov was:

> I remember talking to a very senior person who’s now at Anthropic, in 2017. And then he told various people that they shouldn’t do a PhD because by the time they completed it everyone will be automated.

Don’t tell young people things like this. Predicting the future is hard, and it is the height of hubris to think otherwise.

I remember as a teen, I had thought that I was a supposed to be a pilot for all my life. I was ready to enroll in a school with a two year program.

However, I was also into computers. One person who I looked up to in that world said to me “don’t be a pilot, it will all be automated soon and you will just be buss drivers, at best.” This entirely took the wind out of my piloting sails.

This was in the early 90’s, and 30 years later, it is still wrong.