Welcome to Limitless. Today we’re joined by Luke Drago and Rudolf, authors of the powerful essay series "The Intelligence Curse."Together, we explore a future where artificial general intelligence (AGI) threatens to upend the economic and social contracts that underpin modern civilization. Will AI empower us or make us obsolete?We unpack how labor-replacing AI could dismantle the very incentives that once gave rise to liberal democracies, social mobility, and human-centered innovation—and what it might take to build a future worth living in.------ 💫 LIMITLESS | SUBSCRIBE & FOLLOW https://pod.link/1813210890https://www.youtube.com/@Limitless-FThttps://x.com/LimitlessFT------ BANKLESS SPONSOR TOOLS:🪙FRAX | SELF SUFFICIENT DeFi https://bankless.cc/Frax🦄UNISWAP | SWAP ON UNICHAIN https://bankless.cc/unichain🛞MANTLE | MODULAR LAYER 2 NETWORK https://bankless.cc/Mantle🌐SELF | PROVE YOUR SELF https://bankless.cc/Self🟠HEMI | BTC & ETH, ONE NETWORK https://bankless.cc/hemi------ TIMESTAMPS0:00 What is the Intelligence Curse 4:29 Resource Curse 8:20 Pyramid Replacement 18:19 Institutional Pushback 21:25 Capital, AGI & Human Ambition 32:00 Liberalism Falls Apart? 36:30 Powerful Actors 41:15 Rentier States 46:19 Human Labor in a AGI World 52:46 Nation States 57:37 Shaping the Social Contract 1:06:23 AI Snake Oil? 1:07:41 Balance of Power 1:08:51 Breaking the Intelligence Curse 1:16:45 Vitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism 1:18:16 Diffusion 1:19:58 Open-Source AI 1:22:06 Democratization 1:24:06 Who Wins? 1:26:43 Action Items 1:29:17 The Positive Scenario 1:30:21 Closing------ RESOURCESLuke Drago https://x.com/luke_drago_Rudolf Laine https://x.com/LRudL_Time Op-ed https://time.com/7289692/when-ai-replaces-workers/Intelligence Curse https://intelligence-curse.ai/Contact Form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft2iBV9z1AYsM3TcDnh8z3juc2k4yD0TQTZ91oy37S-KlSSQ/viewformAI Snake Oil - Arvind Narayanan https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai-snake-oilVitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html------ Not financial or tax advice. See our investment disclosures here: https://www.bankless.com/disclosures⁠