All right, well, let's just start here.

I'm going to call you Discord, Dan.

Are you okay with that?

Yeah, that's great.

So a few months ago, I interviewed this young man that our team had found posting anonymously on a Discord server called Stop AI.

Can you tell me a little bit about your background?

Where'd you grow up?

Suburbs.

Mainly just suburbs my whole life.

He'd gotten our attention because some of his posts were raising questions about the

possible use of violence to stop the frontier AI labs from building H.E.I.

And while he was far from the only person online to be posting stuff like that, he was one

of the very few people who was willing to sit down with us

for an interview and talk to us about his views in his life. You know, I hate to sound like an old man

here, but you are what we call Generation Z, right? Yeah. Okay, and did you have a smartphone

when you were super young? Like, what's your, how would you describe your relationship to the internet throughout your life?

Yeah, I grew up quite close to the internet. I think I got my iPad when I was like in sixth grade, so, or maybe a younger, maybe fifth, fourth grade, actually.

The two of us talked about him growing up in the suburbs, about how starting around age nine,

he'd begun to live online pretty much every day.

Mainly just like YouTube, comment sections are, I would debate people on there.

In the comments?

Yeah.

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