Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Robert Wright and Alex Komoroske, co-founder and CEO of Common Tools, discuss OpenAI’s business model and Alex’s plan to save us from its implications.

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0:00 Teaser
0:56 Alex's influential "Google PM Bible"
6:01 What is a tech aggregator?
13:36 AI is much more than chatbots
18:02 The dangers of centralized AI
24:44 What you want vs what you want to want
31:42 How an LLM’s memory locks you in
38:39 AGI vs ASI
44:47 Alex's solution to the lock-in problem
52:16 Alex's ode to “resonance”

Discussed in Overtime:
A view of life in Alex's ideal world.
Alex's mission to decentralize data.
Making your LLM data portable.
The perils of MCP.

Robert Wright (Nonzero, The Evolution of God, Why Buddhism Is True) and Alex Komoroske (Common Tools, thinkinginpublic.net/). Recorded November 18, 2025.

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