Societal change across non-Silicon Valley companies taking 1-5 years is too aggressive a timeline.

Societal change across non-Silicon Valley companies taking 1-5 years is too aggressive a timeline. | I would be like very surprised just in in seeing how even companies in Silicon Valley have changed so far if companies like outside of that sphere you know just completely change everything they did uh in one to five years like I think that's a little aggressive for societal change

I would be like very surprised just in in seeing how even companies in Silicon Valley have changed so far if companies like outside of that sphere you know just completely change everything they did uh in one to five years like I think that's a little aggressive for societal change

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  "context": "I I look I think it's um I think the AI timeline is somewhat unpredictable but kind of certainly more predictable than what he's talking about which is societal change. I think that you know it tends I would be like very surprised just in in seeing how even companies in Silicon Valley have changed so far if companies like outside of that sphere you know just completely change everything they did uh in one to five years like I think that's a little aggressive for societal change",
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