Joe Rogan’s vision on immigration sounds cool
2024-09-26 12:07:00 +07:00 by Mark Smith
Joe Rogan vision on immigration, from his chat with Chamath Palihapitiya [1:09:40]:
This is my one bright spot that I think about with AI as well. Everyone is terrified of the open borders situation, and criminals coming across the border. Wouln’t the solution be, not have a place like a desparate 3rd world country where people are trying to escape on foot with their families.
If we were living next door to another United States, and you could just travel freely back and forth between the two them, because it really didn’t matter. Both of them are equally safe, both of them have equal economic prosperity, both of them are equally democratically governed, no problem, just go over there, go over here.
It kind of used to be like that with Canada. With Canada you used yo go over there with a driver’s license. You used to be able to go back and forth between the United States...I mean I think the first time I went to Canada I did not have a passport, I had a driver’s licence. It was kind of the same sort of deal. It was just accepted, "Oah that place is cool, we’re cool, we’re next to each other". If the whole world was like that...
CP: It would be incredible.
JR: Right, it would be incredible, and I think AI makes that possible, but we are going to have to deal with some very uncomfortable factors.
I thought that was a particulary standout and interesting way to think about it. I too remember that the world used to be much more chilled about borders, and not just in the US. It felt great. We should not forget that. The pendulum can swing back to a place that is cool like it was in the past.
I’m not so convinced about the assertiom that AI makes it all possible. I think there are really big reasons why AI tech might make that vision more difficult to achieve, that it could get in the way, but I concede that it could also help in some way. My instinct is saying, yes that vision sounds really great but woah careful with the over reliance on AI. AI doesn’t magically solve everything. Thinking that it does brings a bunch of it’s own of dangers.