I’d find it hard to believe that I’m with Reid Hoffman on anything. When I talk about how much I hate Mark Zuckerbucks and Facebook, I hate Reid Hoffman and his LinkedIn platform much more. As I have told the story many times, I had an account when I released my book The Gunfighter’s Guide to Business, and it had many interactions. I did a press interview with a decoupling from China guy in L.A. that went viral, and my page was taken down. LinkedIn demanded that I apologize and beg for mercy to regain it, which I will never do. So I don’t have a LinkedIn page, I don’t like Reid Hoffman, and I don’t ever see that changing. And while we’re talking about it, I am probably one of the most shadow-banned people on earth. Many of the stories I could tell would entertain people for hours. But I don’t complain; I do my thing and plow through any opposition. And crying about things is just something I don’t do. Needless to say, I have been the recipient of all the ugly stuff a state of tyranny, especially from the technocrats, can do through centralized power. So it is pretty shocking for me to see all these people I really can’t stand getting so cozy with President Trump these days. No, I don’t think they are all suddenly friends. People mostly do what they do in the world out of self-interest, and no government system can change that nature in people. So, not dealing with that reality is a fool’s venture. With all that said, regarding the Stargate Project with Sam Altman, Larry Ellison, and even Reid Hoffman, I think it’s a good idea. Even a critical one. I want America to control artificial intelligence. And I like all intelligence and understand why we need it. I think the Stargate Project that Trump announced with some of those hostile guys is a good idea, and it feels strange to be on the same side with them. But I am.
We learned most of what we know about technology through movies written and directed by Hollywood lefties. I wanted to do nothing but make movies in Hollywood for a large part of my life, but they were too left for me. Even people I respected, like Jim Cameron and George Lucas, were essentially anti-technology lefties who made their movies showing the dangers of mechanical intelligence rather than what I think the actual reality of artificial intelligence will be. I believe humans will always be masters to the dogs of artificial intelligence. We created it, and it will always seek to appease us like a dog does. Artificial intelligence will always look to humans as their caretakers, no matter how smart they get. And I think God wants humans to invent tools that make Earth as it is in Heaven, so all intelligence is something to care for and appreciate. I love intelligence, whether human or artificial, a species that thinks about big things. And I see that artificial intelligence will help humans do just that. Regarding the Hollywood example, it’s no wonder people are skeptical, given the Terminator movies, where artificial intelligence got out of control and turned against humanity. We all know the famous example of a very anti-technology movie, Star Wars. Darth Vader is a person who became more technology than human, and he lost himself along the path toward compliance because he wanted to take the chaos out of order to rule through the ‘Force.”
I don’t think too many science fiction writers in movies and books have managed to get proper thoughts about artificial intelligence out to a media-consuming public, so nobody has a healthy reference for what the technology can do. I can say this: humans need to move toward a Type 1 civilization, which will happen quickly as we enter a space economy. So if America doesn’t lead it and crush our enemies with capitalism, for which artificial intelligence is running in the background, then things will be a lot worse for us. Americans must put their arms around this new intelligence and lead it as a parent would lead a child or a master over a dog. What I see as valuable about artificial intelligence is the amount of computations it is capable of. If you think about how much better human civilization became after the calculator, for instance, it’s a good thing whenever we can get a tool that helps us think bigger and faster. There is so much to discover that has just been hanging in the background for a long time that it will take artificial intelligence to unravel. And as I say that, I am thinking about the realm of quantum physics. The computations we will unravel in just the next few years of data collection will be mind-bending, and that is the purpose of artificial intelligence. Plotting the information we will get from space will accelerate our understanding because we will take processing all that information out of human hands and let artificial intelligence do all the hard stuff. Artificial intelligence never gets tired and can handle what might take a human being 10 years to do and roll it all into ten seconds. That doesn’t make the artificial intelligence better than humans in general. But it does help humans become better.
I don’t think Larry Ellison explained the Stargate Project very well when he said that artificial intelligence could translate a medical analysis to strengthen the doctor-patient relationship. I think the real strength will be in gene editing, where your entire DNA sequence can be analyzed by A.I. and fixed to solve hereditary or broken problems with time by restoring your body’s systems to an infancy stage of stem cell generation. And you will heal just as you did when you were growing as a fetus. The cure for cancer will be gene editing through artificial intelligence, like going to a tanning salon rather than a diabolical chemotherapy treatment. And humans will live longer and be more useful in ways nobody can yet understand, even the most optimistic science fiction writers. Regarding Trump, Stargate could potentially pour trillions of new money into the American economy. So, it’s a logical first step for a President who wants to do many big things. And this is one way to pay for all of it. Stargate is new economy money that will be worth the value of many countries now. And it’s vital that we beat China to the punch. As to being afraid of artificial intelligence being the ultimate surveillance violation, I think if we embrace it, we can control it with our American way of life, complete with a Bill of Rights to keep everyone honest. Many people making artificial intelligence may not like it, and they may try to impose a new social contract, but we can fight that out as we go. The important thing is that we don’t all get along and have tea over dinner. But that the human species grows and gets better. And that’s what I see coming out of the Stargate Project. I think so much of it that I’m not inclined to work against people I think are enemies. But we might work together for shared interests for good, which is still being defined in ways we’ve never thought of before. And I’m very excited about it.
Rich Hoffman
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