Mark Zuckerberg's essay proposes giving superintelligence to everyone via phones and AR glasses. Speakers debate whether Meta's 3 billion users make it the right company to do this, and whether people should have access to that much power. One raises Internet.org's failed India rollout as proof Meta can't be trusted.
Mark Zuckerberg just published a 6,500-word essay titled The Future Is for Everyone. The core concept is what Zuckerberg calls personal intelligence, superintelligence distributed to every person on Earth, running on your phone, in your ear, on your glasses, working for you and only for you. Meta has, you know, the reach to implement this. They have over 3 billion users on the Meta platforms across WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook.
On the personal and superintelligence side, I've been thinking about this recently and I was like, Should idiots have superintelligence? You know, like, I'm an open source guy. Should psychopaths have superintelligence? Like, realistically, again, people don't need that much, but they need something reliable. And the question is, can you trust Meta to be reliable? And, you know, this is why he goes for the homesy folksy thing. Meta was chased out of India, basically, and internet.org. It was like, we're going to give free internet to people. And they're like, we do not trust you. because it's a misaligned company fundamentally trying to get your attention to sell things, which is why, as you said, they need to have this transformation. And we will see Meta agents, we will see Meta FDEs, we will see that big push here because he's identified that as far bigger than the metaverse. Maybe this is the real metaverse.
Yeah, I think even the renaming and rebranding from Facebook to Meta is, I think, an indication that Zuck really wants to escape the legacy of distribution. I agree with you, Peter, that the distribution is a powerful legacy legacy advantage that Meta as a company has. But I, I think it is a legacy. Their so-called family of apps was structured as a business with originally the aspiration that VR, AR, XR would be the new business that would ultimately outgrow the legacy family of apps. I, I think speaks volumes about Zuck's desire to eventually outgrow the legacy of social media and build something new and far more usocial.
