LIMITLESS - The Intelligence Curse: AI Makes Us All Obsolete | Luke Drago & Rudolf

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🗓️ 28 May 2025

⏱️ 95 minutes

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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/1813210890 https://www.youtube.com/@Limitless-FT https://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 ------ TIMESTAMPS 0:00 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 ------ RESOURCES Luke Drago https://x.com/luke_drago_ Rudolf Laine https://x.com/LRudL_ Intelligence Curse https://intelligence-curse.ai/ Contact Form https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft2iBV9z1AYsM3TcDnh8z3juc2k4yD0TQTZ91oy37S-KlSSQ/viewform AI Snake Oil - Arvind Narayanan https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai-snake-oil Vitalik’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

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0:00.0	Hey, bankless listeners. This is Ryan here. You guys are in for a treat today. So the episode
0:09.5	you're about to hear was pulled from our new Limitless podcast feed. That's a podcast feed that
0:15.2	I occasionally host. I'm a guest host on that, along with David and also our new Limitless co-host, Josh. So as you're about to hear
0:23.2	in this episode, the intelligence curse is not just an AI topic, it's a crypto topic. This is about
0:29.2	AI people discovering that without decentralization, the future of AI is kind of bleak. These aren't
0:34.5	just technologies. These are political systems. Now, moving forward, episodes like
0:39.2	this will be on the Limitless feed. So you won't see them here anymore. So what you need to do
0:43.7	is stop what you're doing and go subscribe to Limitless. Apple, Spotify, YouTube, wherever you get
0:50.6	podcasts, there's a link in the show notes for all of these. Limitless explores
0:54.6	the frontier of AI, the same way bankless explores the frontier of crypto. We believe these are
1:00.3	the two frontiers for wealth generation and freedom this decade. Bankless and limitless AI and
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