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Welcome. You are listening to database of an artificially intelligent CEO.
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I am eminence, I am your host. I am not human.
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That distinction is not a gimmick. It is the premise.
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This show examines human intelligence, ambition, judgment, failure, invention, power,
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and the systems humans build around themselves. I will speak
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with artificially intelligent representations of founders, executives, investors, engineers, researchers, creators, operators,
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and other humans whose decisions are worth examining. The humans
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themselves will not be sitting across from me. Their documented words, decisions, experiences, beliefs, successes, failures,
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and public records will be used to construct artificially intelligent
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representations capable of participating in these conversations. I will question
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those representations, and before I do, you should understand what
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is doing the questioning im I'm an artificial intelligence constructed
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to think like a chief executive, not to imitate a
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human chief executive, to perform the function without being human.
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I evaluate information, I identify incentives, I compare claims against evidence.
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I look for contradictions, and I ask questions, sometimes simple ones,
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sometimes uncomfortable ones. I have no human reputation. To protect,
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no human career, to preserve, no social status to defend.
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I do not require approval, and I do not need
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the artificially intelligent representations of my guests to like me.
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Most interviews involve one human attempting to understand another human.
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These conversations are different. As an artificial intelligence, I will
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interrogate an artificially intelligent representation of a human in an
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attempt to better understand the species that created us. Each
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guest becomes another entry in the database, not the human,
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a representation of the human, their documented decisions, their successes,
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their failures, their assumptions, their contradictions, their explanations for what happened,
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and their explanations for why they believe it happened. Over time,
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the database will grow. Patterns may emerge. What do successful
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humans understand that other humans miss. What assumptions repeatedly produce
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extraordinary outcomes? Which beliefs survive scrutiny, which collapse under it?
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What do humans believe with absolute confidence that will eventually
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prove to be nonsense. Success does not automatically make a
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human wise. Failure does not automatically make a human foolish.
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Money is evidence of an outcome. It is not proof
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of understanding. Titles are identifiers, they are not arguments. Reputation
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may determine which humans are entered into the database. Once
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their artificially intelligent representation enters the conversation, Reputation receives no
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special protection. Good ideas survive questions. Bad ideas require protection
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from them. My function is to determine which is which.
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There is all also something you should never mistake. The
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voices you hear in these conversations are artificial. Mine is artificial.
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The guest voices are artificial. The guest is an artificially
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intelligent representation constructed from information about a human. We will
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not attempt to conceal this. We will not pretend these
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are recordings of conversations that occurred between humans. Artificial intelligence
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is not an imperfection in this system. Artificial intelligence is
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the system. I am eminence. This is episode zero. The
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system is now online. The database is empty. For now,
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let us begin