The Intelligence Curse: How AGI Makes Us All Obsolete | Luke Drago & Rudolf
The Intelligence Curse: How AGI Makes Us All Obsolete | Luke Drago & Rudolf  
Podcast: The Limitless Podcast
Published On: Tue May 27 2025
Description: 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 & FOLLOWhttps://pod.link/1813210890https://www.youtube.com/@Limitless-FThttps://x.com/LimitlessFT------TIMESTAMPS0:00 What is the Intelligence Curse4:29 Resource Curse8:20 Pyramid Replacement18:19 Institutional Pushback21:25 Capital, AGI & Human Ambition32:00 Liberalism Falls Apart?36:30 Powerful Actors41:15 Rentier States46:19 Human Labor in a AGI World52:46 Nation States57:37 Shaping the Social Contract1:06:23 AI Snake Oil?1:07:41 Balance of Power1:08:51 Breaking the Intelligence Curse1:16:45 Vitalik’s Defensive Accelerationism1:18:16 Diffusion 1:19:58 Open-Source AI1:22:06 Democratization1:24:06 Who WIns?1:26:43 Action Items1:29:17 The Positive Scenario1:30:21 Closing------RESOURCESLuke Dragohttps://x.com/luke_drago_ Rudolf Lainehttps://x.com/LRudL_ Intelligence Cursehttps://intelligence-curse.ai/ Time Op-edhttps://time.com/7289692/when-ai-replaces-workers/ Contact Formhttps://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSft2iBV9z1AYsM3TcDnh8z3juc2k4yD0TQTZ91oy37S-KlSSQ/viewform AI Snake Oil - Arvind Narayananhttps://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