What Richard Socher has said about Attention economy
1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 3, 2026
Richard Socher, AI researcher, founder of You.com and co-founder and CEO of Recursive, author of The Eureka Machine, has been quoted on Attention economy once in 1 episode of Moonshots with Peter Diamandis, most recently on October 3, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Socher argues that in an abundant society, human attention cannot scale, so fame, brand and network effects will become more valuable currency.
“the one thing that you cannot scale exponentially is the hours in the day that people can pay attention to you”
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Recursive's $670M Bet on Self-Improving AI, Sonnet 5.5 Hits 70%, Elon Co-Leads Pentagon Push | EP #299Moonshots with Peter Diamandis · Oct 3, 2026 · 2 h 27 min
Peter Diamandis and his co-hosts interview Richard Socher about Recursive's self-improving AI, ASI timelines, AI doomerism, new frontier models, and the Pentagon's Project Meridian.
Richard Socher on other topics
- The Eureka Machine · 2 quotes
- Project Meridian · 1 quote
- Anthropic · 1 quote
- Human Control Over AI Act · 1 quote
- AI existential risk · 1 quote
- Artificial superintelligence · 1 quote
- Recursive self-improvement · 1 quote
- Virtual cell models · 1 quote