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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Theo Asks Mark Zuckerberg Where Humanity Goes From Here' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-05-08. Transcript available.

yeah like sometimes i think like because i've been thinking a lot about this i
think a lot of
people have it's like well we're moving into such a like technology is
advancing so much faster
right it's accelerating the advancement speed and then we're just humans and we're
in this
this space now where there's like one generation to the next where one
generation was completely
grown up online and one hasn't really um yeah so i wonder and i think the older
generation probably
sees it as like man this is so negative everybody's stuck but i wonder if the
younger generation do
they even know any different right you know like just i start to wonder what is
the value of being
human like like what is the does that start to dissipate as we become more
technologically
advanced or does that alter like do you think about that sometimes yeah i mean
look i think
it's going to give people the freedom to focus more on the things that they
want i think if you look at
the arc of of history go back like i mean before you know in ancient times life
was like pretty
brutal right it's like okay so then then you go to like maybe right before the
industrial revolution
where they had team toilet paper at one time they had like group toilet paper
and it was like
yeah that's i mean that's not good that's not good that's um yeah i don't think
i mean i don't you
don't want to yeah no it's i i think anyone who has nostalgia for the past
really is not taking
into account the disease and the lack of hygiene that existed in the past so i
think that there's is
so anyway but pre-industrial revolution i think some huge percent of the
population was farmers because
basically everyone needed to be focused on growing things in order to have
enough food then we basically
got to the point where okay now we can start to produce food much more
efficiently so that actually
frees up a lot of people to not have to be farmers now maybe like two percent
of people can be farmers
and 98 of people can do other stuff so now we people start doing more kind of
other creative stuff
and inventing new things and um and at each step along the way uh kind of like
being a farmer is a
really hard job right it's like you're working like a lot of hours and and and
and now
as as kind of people got more options they they took other jobs um but then we've
also seen this mix
where the percent of people's time that has gone towards leisure and
entertainment has just steadily
increased over time um and i just think that that's going to continue to be the
case with technology
we'll have more stuff that will make it so that the basic needs um are taken
care of which will free
people up to do some combination of more creative jobs and not have to work as
hard if they don't
want to but i think some people are going to like working all the time like me
and um and you'll be
able to do that too and get more done than you could have ever possibly done in
the past but that'll
be sort of a choice and well since you're kind of like a leader in innovation
and technology in our world
you know um do you how do you know that what your convictions are how do you
gauge if what your
convictions are are the best for everybody kind of like how do you kind of
figure that out you know
it seems like such a challenge yeah well does that make sense the question or
no no yeah no i i think
i get what you're asking um i mean look at the end of the day um there are
still a lot of options
of things that people can do just because i build something doesn't mean that
people are going to use
it actually a lot of the things that i build like some some of them work some
of them don't and like
i think part of the reason why the company has been successful is because you
know maybe we have
a slightly higher hit rate of things working than others but it's kind of like
i don't know in
baseball it's like most people don't get on base most of the time right it's so
it's it's like
like running one of these companies you you more of the stuff doesn't work than
does and if
we do something that doesn't work then in general people aren't going to use it
and then the future
doesn't go in that direction so i see so you're saying it's up to the user more
yeah i mean look
i i kind of think um one way to look at the world is that there's a version of
history that says that
like individual people are very powerful and have a lot of kind of autonomy and
ability to
to kind of go in the direction that they think is right and then there's like
all these other
narratives where people try to kind of diminish people's autonomy and authority
and i'm just like
i've always been a person who really kind of believes that people understand
people are smarter than
people think um yes and and i think in general um are able to make good
decisions for their lives
and when they do things that like the media or whatever thinks don't make sense
it's generally
because the media doesn't understand their life not because the people are
stupid
um like if people are saying something that seems wrong it's not usually
misinformation it's usually
that you don't understand what's going on in that person's life and i i just
think that there's like
a certain kind of paternalism in in some of the like mainstream narratives and
some of the media
narratives but like a know-it-all ism almost yeah it's like there has been for
sure for years i think
it's starting to change more yeah i think it's a little more receptive as as
maybe some of those
cultural or media elite people like are having a harder time predicting what's
going to happen in the
world maybe there's a little more humility of like okay maybe we don't
understand all this but but to
me the best predicting thing has always been like all right if you build
something do people actually
think it's good because like at some level you know it's like i just believe
that people are actually
very smart and understand their lives very well and if you're building
something that is useful for
them then they will use it and if you're using something and if you're building
something that is not
useful for them then they have other options they will they will do something
else um and so i don't
know it's always served me well to generally have faith in people and believe
that people are smart
and can make good decisions for themselves and whenever we try to like adopt
some sort of like
attitude of oh we must know better than them it's like we're like we're the
people building technology
that's when you lose right and if you do and if you have that attitude for long
enough
then you just like become a shitty company and you lose and you lose and you
lose and then you're
irrelevant so um so i i tend to just think that at the end of the day yeah i
mean i think people are
smarter than a lot of people think and i think ultimately drive the direction
that society goes in
so i feel like elon musk has like a like he wants to get on mars and he wants
to like impregnate
different planets or whatever you know or whatever he's doing dude he's just
blasting his seat out into
the different rockets whatever you know he's just out there you know he's like
the johnny apple solar
system you know but god bless but no god bless 100 dude and yeah 100 um and i'm
just joking he uh i
think he probably would know that but um i i just think it's interesting like
you get his you get what
his ideas are he wants to like we want to be on mars and we want to send the
rockets and we want to make
everything solar powered and stuff and you're such an innovator and a leader
like what is what do you
feel like is your kind of it's not a goal but kind of where do you what do you
what draw like what is
the thing where you see us you know like where you're at a point where like man
this is what i'm really
proud of and this is where i see us going because yeah you know we're all on
this bus together going
somewhere and we don't exactly know where we're going because it's the future
yeah but you're kind
of you're kind of one of the guys driving the bus you know at least riding
shotgun so it's like
where are we going i mean i think different people just care about about uh
different parts of of uh
the future right so the space thing i think it's cool i'm glad that people are
working on it
it's never really been my my main thing um for me it's all it's it's kind of
been about
the intersection of of how do you build technology that helps people connect
with each other and
understand the world better and um and just taking different formats over time
right so when we got
started people you know were mostly like you know writing text then you know
then we got smartphones
and um we got cameras with the smartphones we started taking a lot of photos
and sharing that and now now
most of what we do is video right the mobile networks are good enough that you
can like
share great video it used to be great like 10 years ago you try watching a
video it's like buffering
buffering it's like okay this is this is terrible but now now it's good um
people always want to
both kind of express their ideas and experience other people's ideas in
whatever the richest format is
that they can so if that was going to be text then that was the best that they
had great photos visual
great a picture's worth a thousand words video better than photo for most
things but i don't
think that's the end of the line right i just think um we're going to be here
whether it's five
years or ten years and i think the ability to like fully capture moments um to
really be able to
experience them i think that's sort of the hologram thing that we're talking
about um i think that
that's just going to be like the next level of um of people being able to
express
like ideas like the next moment in their life yeah like the next like blank
canvas something that's
one thing and then there's the whole ai thing which we haven't spent i know
much time on but we should
we should um which that is really going to um give people a lot of new tools to
to kind of um
both just get smarter at everything they do and um and if you look at the world
like i do through
this lens of how do we express ourselves and how do we kind of take in an
understanding of what's going
on ai is just going to be super powerful for for both of those it's um i mean
you can already see some
of the basic stuff with like people creating images or it's unbelievable i mean
it's crazy how fast it's
happening too that's what i'm amazed at is just how fast it's happening yeah
yeah but do you think
like do you envision this like are you just like like what do you envision that
will be on these
like surf do you have like a like kind of like a utopian idea or do like i just
wonder how do you
see things because you're the only like you're probably one of the smartest
people to ever use thought
i don't know i don't know well that we you know are you're one of the most
unique people to ever use
thought that we have in our time so it's like how do you what is it what is it
like out there
i mean i i think that we're going to get general intelligence um we're going to
have systems that
are smarter than um than any individual and i think it's mostly going to be
very empowering for
people for first of all look i mean there are already systems that are smarter
than any one
individual today right if you take like a company right it's like okay you got
like a thousand people
or ten thousand people who are all kind of like working towards you know ostensibly
working towards
a goal together like i you know if the intelligence of a ten thousand person
company is not greater than
the intelligence of a single person then like what are we doing here right so
there are already these
systems in the world that have this sort of super intelligence that is far
exceeds what any one
person can do and i i just think like instead of having relatively few people
be able to kind of
harness the power of like you have the ability of you know you have a ten
thousand person organization
that can um that can help you build the things that you think are good i just
think in the future almost
everyone is going to have that and that's cool what does that mean it means
that more ideas are going
to get tried out um so it might be up like leveling up in an overall idea of
creativity in the universe
with ai yeah and i think it's going to be every field right so like science
will get more advanced
um like we'll get more productive but like i think a big part of the internet
is stuff just gets more
fun and funnier and like the memes get weirder and more specific and like that
is advancement too
it's almost like universal basic technology kind of in a way yeah it's just the
ability to
to kind of express these like very complicated ideas in like a very simple
piece of media i i think
we're going to get better and better at that and that advances our kind of
understanding of ourselves
as a society so um yeah i don't know i i think we'll get super intelligence and
i would guess that
it will be um a continuation of this trend that humanity has been on for a
hundred plus years of
basically getting more time to do creative things less time having to do drudgery
not having to spend
as much time working if you don't want but if you want to uh dedicate your life
towards that you're
gonna have more powerful tools than you could ever have possibly imagined so it's
not as much a
conviction as much as it is a space of choice is how you see that like just
kind of that sort of thing
what do you mean it's not like you're like like convicted to this sort of like
future as we
advance like it's just a space of choice if you still want to be able to do
these things you can
do those and if you want to be able to do these things you can do those yeah
there you are on the
bus right there there you go i mean that's a little weird of a photo but you
know i think that is
good yeah i do not think that is good um i don't like that at all and we yeah
no thank you for
telling us that though it's horrible ai um yeah i think that was open ai dude
so sorry about that
um do you think you do you think you will live forever mark is that a thought
coming oh man um
that is an interesting question i i think you have two minutes to answer then
yeah no i i don't know
live forever gosh i i think at some point we will like a lot of well let me
come at it this way our um
outside of meta um my the philanthropy that i do with with priscilla the chan zuckerberg
initiative
is primarily focused on curing diseases and the way we're doing that is not by
focusing on any
single disease it's by focused on kind of basic technology at the intersection
of ai and biology
to accelerate the pace of science and we originally thought that kind of a
hundred years
when we started was sort of around the time frame to be able to cure and
prevent and like deal with
all diseases i know there's a chance that that happens sooner than um you know
because of because
of all the work with with ai i guess i'm i'm more optimistic about that now um
whether that means that
like we are gonna live forever or we just have healthier lives for the period
that we're supposed to be
living and then at some point like your human body is done um i i don't i don't
think we understand that
yet enough but um but a lot of curing diseases is not just about living forever
it's about having
better lives and and it's like and it's like while you're alive like you don't
want to have to
deal with right it's like you like where you're just like you feel terrible
because you're sick or like
you're injured or there's you know so i think it's possible like you when you
because you have an
understanding of like science and being human that is that is way supersedes a
lot of people's do you
um do you think it's possible that we could figure that out curing all diseases
uh to be able to
like live to keep life like do you think it's possible we could figure out how
to do it i think
it's possible um i don't know it's honestly it's not an area that i've studied
that much and it's um
it's no because we don't know we don't know what's going on mark and we just
want you to tell us
yeah i mean no i don't know i don't know i let's let's check back in in 10
years on that i think as
as the the ai stuff makes more progress i think we'll we'll kind of get a sense
of the trajectory for
that but but i think it's just going to unlock a lot of creativity and
productivity and fun
that's what i think it's just going to happen i think it's just going to be
able to do it
i think it's going to be a good one of the things that i think it's going to be
a good one of the things that i think
i think it's going to be a good one of the things that i think it's going to be
a good one of the things that i think
i think it's going to be a good one of the things that i think it's going to be
a good one of the things that i think

Theo Asks Mark Zuckerberg Where Humanity Goes From Here

yeah like sometimes i think like because i've been thinking a lot about this i
think a lot of
people have it's like well we're moving into such a like technology is
advancing so much faster
right it's accelerating the advancement speed and then we're just humans and we're
in this
this space now where there's like one generation to the next where one
generation was completely
grown up online and one hasn't really um yeah so i wonder and i think the older
generation probably
sees it as like man this is so negative everybody's stuck but i wonder if the
younger generation do
they even know any different right you know like just i start to wonder what is
the value of being
human like like what is the does that start to dissipate as we become more
technologically
advanced or does that alter like do you think about that sometimes yeah i mean
look i think
it's going to give people the freedom to focus more on the things that they
want i think if you look at
the arc of of history go back like i mean before you know in ancient times life
was like pretty
brutal right it's like okay so then then you go to like maybe right before the
industrial revolution
where they had team toilet paper at one time they had like group toilet paper
and it was like
yeah that's i mean that's not good that's not good that's um yeah i don't think
i mean i don't you
don't want to yeah no it's i i think anyone who has nostalgia for the past
really is not taking
into account the disease and the lack of hygiene that existed in the past so i
think that there's is
so anyway but pre-industrial revolution i think some huge percent of the
population was farmers because
basically everyone needed to be focused on growing things in order to have
enough food then we basically
got to the point where okay now we can start to produce food much more
efficiently so that actually
frees up a lot of people to not have to be farmers now maybe like two percent
of people can be farmers
and 98 of people can do other stuff so now we people start doing more kind of
other creative stuff
and inventing new things and um and at each step along the way uh kind of like
being a farmer is a
really hard job right it's like you're working like a lot of hours and and and
and now
as as kind of people got more options they they took other jobs um but then we've
also seen this mix
where the percent of people's time that has gone towards leisure and
entertainment has just steadily
increased over time um and i just think that that's going to continue to be the
case with technology
we'll have more stuff that will make it so that the basic needs um are taken
care of which will free
people up to do some combination of more creative jobs and not have to work as
hard if they don't
want to but i think some people are going to like working all the time like me
and um and you'll be
able to do that too and get more done than you could have ever possibly done in
the past but that'll
be sort of a choice and well since you're kind of like a leader in innovation
and technology in our world
you know um do you how do you know that what your convictions are how do you
gauge if what your
convictions are are the best for everybody kind of like how do you kind of
figure that out you know
it seems like such a challenge yeah well does that make sense the question or
no no yeah no i i think
i get what you're asking um i mean look at the end of the day um there are
still a lot of options
of things that people can do just because i build something doesn't mean that
people are going to use
it actually a lot of the things that i build like some some of them work some
of them don't and like
i think part of the reason why the company has been successful is because you
know maybe we have
a slightly higher hit rate of things working than others but it's kind of like
i don't know in
baseball it's like most people don't get on base most of the time right it's so
it's it's like
like running one of these companies you you more of the stuff doesn't work than
does and if
we do something that doesn't work then in general people aren't going to use it
and then the future
doesn't go in that direction so i see so you're saying it's up to the user more
yeah i mean look
i i kind of think um one way to look at the world is that there's a version of
history that says that
like individual people are very powerful and have a lot of kind of autonomy and
ability to
to kind of go in the direction that they think is right and then there's like
all these other
narratives where people try to kind of diminish people's autonomy and authority
and i'm just like
i've always been a person who really kind of believes that people understand
people are smarter than
people think um yes and and i think in general um are able to make good
decisions for their lives
and when they do things that like the media or whatever thinks don't make sense
it's generally
because the media doesn't understand their life not because the people are
stupid
um like if people are saying something that seems wrong it's not usually
misinformation it's usually
that you don't understand what's going on in that person's life and i i just
think that there's like
a certain kind of paternalism in in some of the like mainstream narratives and
some of the media
narratives but like a know-it-all ism almost yeah it's like there has been for
sure for years i think
it's starting to change more yeah i think it's a little more receptive as as
maybe some of those
cultural or media elite people like are having a harder time predicting what's
going to happen in the
world maybe there's a little more humility of like okay maybe we don't
understand all this but but to
me the best predicting thing has always been like all right if you build
something do people actually
think it's good because like at some level you know it's like i just believe
that people are actually
very smart and understand their lives very well and if you're building
something that is useful for
them then they will use it and if you're using something and if you're building
something that is not
useful for them then they have other options they will they will do something
else um and so i don't
know it's always served me well to generally have faith in people and believe
that people are smart
and can make good decisions for themselves and whenever we try to like adopt
some sort of like
attitude of oh we must know better than them it's like we're like we're the
people building technology
that's when you lose right and if you do and if you have that attitude for long
enough
then you just like become a shitty company and you lose and you lose and you
lose and then you're
irrelevant so um so i i tend to just think that at the end of the day yeah i
mean i think people are
smarter than a lot of people think and i think ultimately drive the direction
that society goes in
so i feel like elon musk has like a like he wants to get on mars and he wants
to like impregnate
different planets or whatever you know or whatever he's doing dude he's just
blasting his seat out into
the different rockets whatever you know he's just out there you know he's like
the johnny apple solar
system you know but god bless but no god bless 100 dude and yeah 100 um and i'm
just joking he uh i
think he probably would know that but um i i just think it's interesting like
you get his you get what
his ideas are he wants to like we want to be on mars and we want to send the
rockets and we want to make
everything solar powered and stuff and you're such an innovator and a leader
like what is what do you
feel like is your kind of it's not a goal but kind of where do you what do you
what draw like what is
the thing where you see us you know like where you're at a point where like man
this is what i'm really
proud of and this is where i see us going because yeah you know we're all on
this bus together going
somewhere and we don't exactly know where we're going because it's the future
yeah but you're kind
of you're kind of one of the guys driving the bus you know at least riding
shotgun so it's like
where are we going i mean i think different people just care about about uh
different parts of of uh
the future right so the space thing i think it's cool i'm glad that people are
working on it
it's never really been my my main thing um for me it's all it's it's kind of
been about
the intersection of of how do you build technology that helps people connect
with each other and
understand the world better and um and just taking different formats over time
right so when we got
started people you know were mostly like you know writing text then you know
then we got smartphones
and um we got cameras with the smartphones we started taking a lot of photos
and sharing that and now now
most of what we do is video right the mobile networks are good enough that you
can like
share great video it used to be great like 10 years ago you try watching a
video it's like buffering
buffering it's like okay this is this is terrible but now now it's good um
people always want to
both kind of express their ideas and experience other people's ideas in
whatever the richest format is
that they can so if that was going to be text then that was the best that they
had great photos visual
great a picture's worth a thousand words video better than photo for most
things but i don't
think that's the end of the line right i just think um we're going to be here
whether it's five
years or ten years and i think the ability to like fully capture moments um to
really be able to
experience them i think that's sort of the hologram thing that we're talking
about um i think that
that's just going to be like the next level of um of people being able to
express
like ideas like the next moment in their life yeah like the next like blank
canvas something that's
one thing and then there's the whole ai thing which we haven't spent i know
much time on but we should
we should um which that is really going to um give people a lot of new tools to
to kind of um
both just get smarter at everything they do and um and if you look at the world
like i do through
this lens of how do we express ourselves and how do we kind of take in an
understanding of what's going
on ai is just going to be super powerful for for both of those it's um i mean
you can already see some
of the basic stuff with like people creating images or it's unbelievable i mean
it's crazy how fast it's
happening too that's what i'm amazed at is just how fast it's happening yeah
yeah but do you think
like do you envision this like are you just like like what do you envision that
will be on these
like surf do you have like a like kind of like a utopian idea or do like i just
wonder how do you
see things because you're the only like you're probably one of the smartest
people to ever use thought
i don't know i don't know well that we you know are you're one of the most
unique people to ever use
thought that we have in our time so it's like how do you what is it what is it
like out there
i mean i i think that we're going to get general intelligence um we're going to
have systems that
are smarter than um than any individual and i think it's mostly going to be
very empowering for
people for first of all look i mean there are already systems that are smarter
than any one
individual today right if you take like a company right it's like okay you got
like a thousand people
or ten thousand people who are all kind of like working towards you know ostensibly
working towards
a goal together like i you know if the intelligence of a ten thousand person
company is not greater than
the intelligence of a single person then like what are we doing here right so
there are already these
systems in the world that have this sort of super intelligence that is far
exceeds what any one
person can do and i i just think like instead of having relatively few people
be able to kind of
harness the power of like you have the ability of you know you have 