going to lose a massive amount of customers and it is going to absolutely torpedo our economy. I can't believe how shortsighted Wall Street is. Now, does that mean we stop AI in its tracks and we stop change? No, we can't stopbecause it's it's true that China is also going, Russia is, North Korea is, Israel is.
approach uh which uh we're seeing happen more more and that's when politicians will enact laws that are very shortsighted like laws that try to make it um restrict Anonymous speech in invery problematic ways or uh another example is the the prosecution of Lori
and trying to adjust climate by reducing sunshine, the carbon dioxide is still going to go into the ocean and lead to a drop in pH. So I think that the geo-engineering or climate-engineering solutions are shortsighted if they focus only on blocking sunshine. Q Apologies if you covered this earlier in your talk, but methane is one of the other large contributors to effects in the atmosphere. And we have, you know, billion of tons of
The French, Spanish initiative to force Google to pay newspapers for sending them traffic from Google News is obviously absurd. It's an example of shortsighted , of counterproductive regulation. Not all regulation is right.
to actually affect a change so let me talk about very quickly some of the some of the really shortsighted things we've seen in the past this was from Western Union who couldn't see the value of a
to be. I'm not that interested in the individuals who work for these companies, because I think it's, you know -- people are scared right now and they're very shortsighted . There's this sort of epidemic in the country of this thing called 'family values' -- which means that, if you care for your family, you don't have to care for anybody else. But I was slightly curious about why the rules are so lax in terms of insurance companies. And the same thing is true with pharmaceutical
is the amplitude of these gravitational waves from inflation. And why is this that we're so shortsighted , taking these unnecessary risks?
is still there right now. And I think that's what we-- at least I find myself and other people getting shortsighted , is that there's other people that need your help. And just because you feel good about yourself and empowered doesn't mean other people don't.
I think good behavior could never arise unless it's accompanied by some desire to um to punish those who who deceive, who free ride, who prey on others is a prerequisite. We need this vengeful appetite. But it can be indiscriminate. It can go too far. It can be shortsighted . There are these various studies for instance where you ask people you have to figure out how much to punish this person and it turns out that the extent of punishment you give them won't have
like psychedelics, that you would to a complex human mind? intuitions around that stuff is so bad that to really think that we know enough not to try things at this point is, I think, really shortsighted .
Most local gun ranges have some kind of beginners shooting seminar. But the problem is certain actions have either unintended downstream consequences, that if we think, oh, the shortsighted solution might
are things that I believe a business just should do. So we'll have a competitive advantage by doing this, and leaders that don't see that are shortsighted and have short-termism as one of their biggest issues.