Hey everyone, it's Aza Raskin. Welcome to your undivided attention.

So a little while ago, I sat down with my friends Reid Hoffman and ARIA finger on their podcast possible.

Reed and Aria are both entrepreneurs.

And actually, it may seem surprising to have this conversation on YUA because, you know,

Reid is the founder of LinkedIn and was one of the major early investors in OpenAI, and is known for his work creating the

playbook for hyperscaling, or what he calls blitzscaling. Yet, Reed and Aria, both are deeply philosophical

and are both dedicated to a humane world that goes well.

And so we thought it was a very important conversation to bring to this podcast because we don't

often have those people that could sit on quote unquote the other side.

What I think made this conversation so special with Reed is that while we don't always agree,

we took it really slowly. We both tried to get to each other's root assumptions and have this conversation in a very

deep sense, good faith. He's much more optimistic about AI's trajectory than I am, and neither he nor

ARIA seemed to see the inherent risk of optimizing for intention and engagement the way that Tristan and I do.

But we still found a lot of common ground on the solutions that will need to walk the narrow path on AI.

So this week, we're bringing it to you on the YUA feed, because Reed in the end is a very thoughtful, very deep thinker.

In this conversation, we debated the merits of an AI pause.

We discussed how, as software eats the world, what software is optimized for ends up eating us.

We talked about ecosystem ethics. We talked about Neil Postman.

And we talked about how everyone

is distracted trying to build aligned artificial intelligence, and what everyone's missing is that

we need to build aligned collective intelligence, because that's what determines our future.

This is the kind of conversation I wish happened a lot more in tech, because Reed has built

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