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Jeff Bezos just compressed the entire AI race into one sentence. It has nothing to do with technology. Bezos: “Think about the things that are not going to change over 10 years and those are probably the big things.” Not a word about models. Not a word about compute.... Just the oldest truth in commerce, dressed in the quietest language possible. The whole industry is sprinting to predict the next disruption. Bezos is pointing at what has never been disrupted. Bezos: “10 years from now customers are still gonna want low prices. I know they’re still gonna want fast delivery, and I just know they’re still gonna want big selection.” Cheaper. Faster. More. Those are not preferences. Those are instincts. Hardwired before we had fire, let alone software. Bezos: “It’s impossible to imagine a scenario where 10 years from now a customer says, ‘I love Amazon, I just wish the prices were a little higher.’” That sentence has never been spoken in the entire history of human commerce. Now pull every headline and every hype cycle out of AI. Look at what remains. Intelligence approaching free. Labor approaching free. Delivery approaching instant. The most advanced technology in human history is not chasing the future. It is chasing the oldest demands the species has ever had. Bezos: “When you identify the big things, you can tell they’re worth putting energy into because they’re stable in time.” You do not need to outrun the market. You do not need to outpredict it. You need to see the thing it has always wanted and build into it until nothing on earth can move you. The future was never a mystery. It was always just the past, moving faster.show more

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Jeff Bezos on how to build a business strategy “I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?” And that is an interesting question… But I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two.” Jeff argues: “You can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. In our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that’s going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery. They want vast selection. It’s impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, ‘Jeff I love Amazon, I just wish the prices were a little higher.’ Or, ‘I love Amazon, I just wish you’d deliver a little slower.’ Impossible. And so we know the energy we put into these things today will still be paying dividends for our customers 10 years from now.” He gives AWS as another example. It’s impossible to imagine AWS customers asking for a less reliable or more expensive service. ”When you have something that you know is true, even over the long term, you can afford to put a lot of energy into it… The big ideas in business are often very obvious, but it’s very hard to maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times. But if you can do that and continue to spin up those flywheels and put energy into those things, over time, you build a better service for your customers on the things that genuinely matter to them.” Video source: Amazon Web Services (2012)

Jeff Bezos on how to build a business strategy “I very frequently get the question: ‘What’s going to change in the next 10 years?” And that is an interesting question… But I almost never get the question: ‘What’s not going to change in the next 10 years?’ And I submit to you that that second question is actually the more important of the two.” Jeff argues: “You can build a business strategy around the things that are stable in time. In our retail business, we know that customers want low prices, and I know that’s going to be true 10 years from now. They want fast delivery. They want vast selection. It’s impossible to imagine a future 10 years from now where a customer comes up and says, ‘Jeff I love Amazon, I just wish the prices were a little higher.’ Or, ‘I love Amazon, I just wish you’d deliver a little slower.’ Impossible. And so we know the energy we put into these things today will still be paying dividends for our customers 10 years from now.” He gives AWS as another example. It’s impossible to imagine AWS customers asking for a less reliable or more expensive service. ”When you have something that you know is true, even over the long term, you can afford to put a lot of energy into it… The big ideas in business are often very obvious, but it’s very hard to maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times. But if you can do that and continue to spin up those flywheels and put energy into those things, over time, you build a better service for your customers on the things that genuinely matter to them.” Video source: Amazon Web Services (2012)

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Jeff Bezos just told you where all of Earth’s factories are going. Off the planet. Bezos: “If we want to keep growing our civilization and using more energy per person, we’re eventually going to have to move all of our heavy industry off Earth.” Not a thought experiment. An engineering conclusion. One he has held since childhood. Decades on the same problem. The same answer every time. Earth is too small. Not too small for today. Too small for what today becomes. Every year the species consumes more energy. More compute. More materials. More of everything. The curve does not flatten. It never has. It never will. The planet has a hard ceiling. Fixed energy. Fixed land. Fixed resources. A closed system with a growing appetite. You do not solve that by shrinking the appetite. You solve it by expanding the system. Bezos: “We have unlimited energy in space and unlimited material resources in space.” Unlimited. Not abundant. Not plentiful. Unlimited. The Sun outputs more energy in one second than humanity could burn in a million years. The asteroid belt holds more raw material than every mine ever dug on Earth. The Moon alone carries enough helium-3 and rare earth minerals to fuel industries that do not yet have names. All of it sitting there. Untouched. While nations bleed each other over the scraps. Bezos: “We can start to build factories in space. We can start to build data centers in space.” Factories that produce zero pollution on Earth. Data centers that draw zero power from the grid. Heavy industry that generates zero waste in the atmosphere. Not because the waste disappears. Because the waste happens somewhere it does not matter. Bezos: “This planet is so beautiful and so unusual. This is the one that we’re going to want to protect. There’s no planet B.” The environmentalists and the industrialists have been fighting the same war for fifty years. Grow or protect. Build or conserve. Economy or ecology. Bezos is telling you the war was always false. You do not choose between growth and preservation. You move the growth off-world and the preservation happens automatically. Earth becomes the residential zone. The garden. The one place where biology gets to breathe. Space becomes the factory floor. The power plant. The data center. The refinery. Every smokestack. Every cooling tower. Every server farm drawing gigawatts from the grid. All of it belongs in the vacuum where energy is free and there is no ecosystem to damage. Bezos: “I don’t know how soon it will happen. It’s a job that I won’t finish. Probably my children’s children won’t finish.” He is building something he will never see completed. That is not a business plan. That is a cathedral. The kind of project that takes generations. Where the person who lays the foundation never stands in the finished building. Most founders build for an exit. Bezos is building for a timeline that outlives his grandchildren. The interviewer called it fantastical. Bezos had one response. Bezos: “Go back in time a hundred years and show somebody your iPhone.” Everything that exists today was once fantastical. Flight. Satellites. The internet. A phone carrying the sum of human knowledge in your pocket. Every single one was impossible until the year it was not. Orbital factories sound like science fiction the same way video calls sounded like science fiction in 1950. The pattern never changes. Someone describes the future. Everyone calls it crazy. Then it ships. Then no one can explain what came before. Bezos is not guessing. He is reading the same pattern that has held every single time. And betting his life that this one is no different.

Jeff Bezos just told you where all of Earth’s factories are going. Off the planet. Bezos: “If we want to keep growing our civilization and using more energy per person, we’re eventually going to have to move all of our heavy industry off Earth.” Not a thought experiment. An engineering conclusion. One he has held since childhood. Decades on the same problem. The same answer every time. Earth is too small. Not too small for today. Too small for what today becomes. Every year the species consumes more energy. More compute. More materials. More of everything. The curve does not flatten. It never has. It never will. The planet has a hard ceiling. Fixed energy. Fixed land. Fixed resources. A closed system with a growing appetite. You do not solve that by shrinking the appetite. You solve it by expanding the system. Bezos: “We have unlimited energy in space and unlimited material resources in space.” Unlimited. Not abundant. Not plentiful. Unlimited. The Sun outputs more energy in one second than humanity could burn in a million years. The asteroid belt holds more raw material than every mine ever dug on Earth. The Moon alone carries enough helium-3 and rare earth minerals to fuel industries that do not yet have names. All of it sitting there. Untouched. While nations bleed each other over the scraps. Bezos: “We can start to build factories in space. We can start to build data centers in space.” Factories that produce zero pollution on Earth. Data centers that draw zero power from the grid. Heavy industry that generates zero waste in the atmosphere. Not because the waste disappears. Because the waste happens somewhere it does not matter. Bezos: “This planet is so beautiful and so unusual. This is the one that we’re going to want to protect. There’s no planet B.” The environmentalists and the industrialists have been fighting the same war for fifty years. Grow or protect. Build or conserve. Economy or ecology. Bezos is telling you the war was always false. You do not choose between growth and preservation. You move the growth off-world and the preservation happens automatically. Earth becomes the residential zone. The garden. The one place where biology gets to breathe. Space becomes the factory floor. The power plant. The data center. The refinery. Every smokestack. Every cooling tower. Every server farm drawing gigawatts from the grid. All of it belongs in the vacuum where energy is free and there is no ecosystem to damage. Bezos: “I don’t know how soon it will happen. It’s a job that I won’t finish. Probably my children’s children won’t finish.” He is building something he will never see completed. That is not a business plan. That is a cathedral. The kind of project that takes generations. Where the person who lays the foundation never stands in the finished building. Most founders build for an exit. Bezos is building for a timeline that outlives his grandchildren. The interviewer called it fantastical. Bezos had one response. Bezos: “Go back in time a hundred years and show somebody your iPhone.” Everything that exists today was once fantastical. Flight. Satellites. The internet. A phone carrying the sum of human knowledge in your pocket. Every single one was impossible until the year it was not. Orbital factories sound like science fiction the same way video calls sounded like science fiction in 1950. The pattern never changes. Someone describes the future. Everyone calls it crazy. Then it ships. Then no one can explain what came before. Bezos is not guessing. He is reading the same pattern that has held every single time. And betting his life that this one is no different.

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Jeff Bezos doesn’t think AI will cause mass unemployment. He thinks it will cause mass labor scarcity. That single inversion collapses the entire doomer thesis. Bezos: “I think what’s actually gonna happen is we’re gonna have labor scarcity as a result.” The pessimists are projecting scarcity economics onto a machine engineered for abundance. They see the future as today with fewer paychecks. They’re ignoring the collapsing cost of survival itself. A two-income household is not a cultural achievement. It is a thermodynamic requirement. Two adults grinding forty hours a week just to cover the baseline cost of housing, food, and energy. When AI saturates the supply chain, the cost of producing anything craters toward zero. One income covers what two could barely sustain. Bezos: “Two-earner households, perhaps one of those earners will decide not to be in the job market… Maybe some people who are working overtime will stop working overtime.” The workforce doesn’t shrink because workers get replaced. It shrinks because workers finally get the freedom to walk away. The media calls this mass unemployment. Physics calls it emancipation. This is the oldest pattern in civilization. The plow was supposed to starve farmers. The loom was supposed to end the textile trade. The assembly line was supposed to make human labor obsolete. Every prediction was wrong. Every time, the opposite happened. Living standards surged. Child labor ended. The weekend was invented. The workweek collapsed from seventy hours to forty. Productivity didn’t eliminate workers. It gave workers enough leverage to eliminate the conditions they hated. Bezos: “If I take you back to the plow, they can’t help but be shared that way. These inventions drive fundamental progress.” You don’t hoard a fundamental technology. You scale it until it becomes the operating system of the species. Bezos: “Somebody invents penicillin, and it does help everyone. The iPhone doesn’t get reserved for just a few people. It’s the inventions themselves that spread throughout society and improve lives.” AI will follow the same arc. Because the arc has never broken. Not once in ten thousand years. Bezos: “I know why people are pessimistic. They’re pessimistic because a bunch of smart people are telling them to be pessimistic. But those people are wrong.” Every generation has believed its technology was the one that would finally break the pattern. Every generation was wrong. Leverage requires desperation. Abundance destroys leverage. We built an entire civilization around the assumption that constant human exhaustion is a virtue. It was never a virtue. It was just the only math that worked. The machines aren’t coming to steal your labor. They’re coming to delete the requirement for it. The hardest part of the AI revolution won’t be losing your job. It will be answering a question that ten thousand years of survival never gave us time to ask. What would you do with your life if you didn’t have to spend it surviving.

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12,894 views • 2 months ago

Jeff Bezos just identified the most expensive bureaucratic failure in the American economy. It fits in one sentence. Bezos: “Why does it take months and months and months to get a building permit? It doesn’t make any sense.” It doesn’t make any sense because a building code is not a judgment call. It is an algorithm. And algorithms should be executed by machines. Bezos: “Miami should have an AI application that reads your building permit for a new house or a new building and it should give you a yes or a no in ten seconds.” Ten seconds. Not three months. Not six weeks. Not whenever the reviewer clears their backlog. Bezos: “If the answer is no, it should tell you the six things you have to change to get a yes.” No ambiguity. No interpretation. No bureaucratic delay dressed up as due diligence. Just a deterministic feedback loop compressing months of institutional friction into a single automated decision. We are competing against sovereign adversaries deploying gigawatt data centers and scaling physical infrastructure at a pace that does not stop to ask permission. And we are losing ground to countries that never needed to. The AI arms race is not only fought in data centers. It is fought in the gap between when someone decides to build something and when the government allows it. Every month this system runs on biological speed is a month that cannot be recovered. The governments that integrate AI into their core civic functions will trigger a wave of physical development the old world could never produce. The ones that refuse will still be reviewing the same forms a decade from now. While the cities that said yes are already living inside the future they built. The bottleneck was never ambition. It was always the man holding the rubber stamp deciding when ambition was allowed to begin. And the stamp is just a rubber version of the algorithm that should have been running this whole time.

Jeff Bezos just identified the most expensive bureaucratic failure in the American economy. It fits in one sentence. Bezos: “Why does it take months and months and months to get a building permit? It doesn’t make any sense.” It doesn’t make any sense because a building code is not a judgment call. It is an algorithm. And algorithms should be executed by machines. Bezos: “Miami should have an AI application that reads your building permit for a new house or a new building and it should give you a yes or a no in ten seconds.” Ten seconds. Not three months. Not six weeks. Not whenever the reviewer clears their backlog. Bezos: “If the answer is no, it should tell you the six things you have to change to get a yes.” No ambiguity. No interpretation. No bureaucratic delay dressed up as due diligence. Just a deterministic feedback loop compressing months of institutional friction into a single automated decision. We are competing against sovereign adversaries deploying gigawatt data centers and scaling physical infrastructure at a pace that does not stop to ask permission. And we are losing ground to countries that never needed to. The AI arms race is not only fought in data centers. It is fought in the gap between when someone decides to build something and when the government allows it. Every month this system runs on biological speed is a month that cannot be recovered. The governments that integrate AI into their core civic functions will trigger a wave of physical development the old world could never produce. The ones that refuse will still be reviewing the same forms a decade from now. While the cities that said yes are already living inside the future they built. The bottleneck was never ambition. It was always the man holding the rubber stamp deciding when ambition was allowed to begin. And the stamp is just a rubber version of the algorithm that should have been running this whole time.

Dustin

293,438 views • 5 months ago

Jeff Bezos explained why every generation gets the future wrong in the exact same way. He asked a room to imagine going back to 1920 and telling a farmer that “massage therapist” would be a real career. Bezos: “They would not have believed you.” A friend took it further. Bezos: “Forget massage therapist, there are dog psychiatrists.” He looked it up. Bezos: “Sure enough, you can easily hire a psychiatrist for your dog.” Nobody caught what just happened. Every technological revolution in history has created more jobs than it destroyed. Every single one. No exceptions. And every single time, we panicked anyway. Because the jobs being destroyed always have names. The jobs being created never do. That is not a footnote. That is the mechanism. The human brain treats what it can name as real and what it can’t name as fantasy. No generation in history has ever overcome that instinct. We are not overcoming it now. Right now AI fear has everything. Job titles. Timelines. Research papers. Congressional hearings. AI opportunity has nothing. No names. No categories. No vocabulary. Not because the opportunity is smaller. Because it requires inventions nobody has built, inside industries that don’t exist, solving problems nobody has discovered. A farmer in 1920 couldn’t imagine “social media strategist.” Not because he lacked intelligence. Because radio, television, personal computers, the internet, smartphones, social platforms, and the creator economy all had to exist first. Seven inventions deep. Every link in that chain had to be built before the job could even be a sentence. The limitation was never imagination. It was infrastructure. You cannot think your way to a job that requires technology nobody has invented. The brain doesn’t fail here. Language does. We are standing at the first link in a chain we can’t see the end of. Making confident predictions about the last one. The fear sounds credible because it’s specific. The opportunity sounds naive because it’s invisible. But specificity is not accuracy. And invisibility is not absence. The historical record is undefeated. Every “this time is different” has been wrong. Not most of the time. Every time. The very fact that we’re afraid is the proof. We only panic about technologies powerful enough to reshape everything. And technologies powerful enough to reshape everything have never once failed to create more than they destroyed. The fear is not evidence the future is dark. The fear is evidence the opportunity is so large we don’t have language for it yet. The jobs AI creates will sound as absurd to us as “dog psychiatrist” would’ve sounded to a farmer in 1920. Until someone’s running a waitlisted practice charging $300 an hour.

Jeff Bezos explained why every generation gets the future wrong in the exact same way. He asked a room to imagine going back to 1920 and telling a farmer that “massage therapist” would be a real career. Bezos: “They would not have believed you.” A friend took it further. Bezos: “Forget massage therapist, there are dog psychiatrists.” He looked it up. Bezos: “Sure enough, you can easily hire a psychiatrist for your dog.” Nobody caught what just happened. Every technological revolution in history has created more jobs than it destroyed. Every single one. No exceptions. And every single time, we panicked anyway. Because the jobs being destroyed always have names. The jobs being created never do. That is not a footnote. That is the mechanism. The human brain treats what it can name as real and what it can’t name as fantasy. No generation in history has ever overcome that instinct. We are not overcoming it now. Right now AI fear has everything. Job titles. Timelines. Research papers. Congressional hearings. AI opportunity has nothing. No names. No categories. No vocabulary. Not because the opportunity is smaller. Because it requires inventions nobody has built, inside industries that don’t exist, solving problems nobody has discovered. A farmer in 1920 couldn’t imagine “social media strategist.” Not because he lacked intelligence. Because radio, television, personal computers, the internet, smartphones, social platforms, and the creator economy all had to exist first. Seven inventions deep. Every link in that chain had to be built before the job could even be a sentence. The limitation was never imagination. It was infrastructure. You cannot think your way to a job that requires technology nobody has invented. The brain doesn’t fail here. Language does. We are standing at the first link in a chain we can’t see the end of. Making confident predictions about the last one. The fear sounds credible because it’s specific. The opportunity sounds naive because it’s invisible. But specificity is not accuracy. And invisibility is not absence. The historical record is undefeated. Every “this time is different” has been wrong. Not most of the time. Every time. The very fact that we’re afraid is the proof. We only panic about technologies powerful enough to reshape everything. And technologies powerful enough to reshape everything have never once failed to create more than they destroyed. The fear is not evidence the future is dark. The fear is evidence the opportunity is so large we don’t have language for it yet. The jobs AI creates will sound as absurd to us as “dog psychiatrist” would’ve sounded to a farmer in 1920. Until someone’s running a waitlisted practice charging $300 an hour.

Dustin

124,869 views • 1 month ago

‘it is.’ was released 10 years ago today. The album to me was meant to talk about what everything is. It just ‘is’. Whether you do it or don’t. So why not do it? “You are a human being, so ‘be’.” Things will continue to change around me as well as within me. All I can do is try to be what I want to be more and more everyday. And continue to send out my communications through music. I’m grateful to everyone that has received and/or will receive the messages in the future. Thank you to all who have supported and will support in the future — love y’all.

‘it is.’ was released 10 years ago today. The album to me was meant to talk about what everything is. It just ‘is’. Whether you do it or don’t. So why not do it? “You are a human being, so ‘be’.” Things will continue to change around me as well as within me. All I can do is try to be what I want to be more and more everyday. And continue to send out my communications through music. I’m grateful to everyone that has received and/or will receive the messages in the future. Thank you to all who have supported and will support in the future — love y’all.

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12,020 views • 3 months ago

Sam Altman just told you exactly how OpenAI treats the human race. Not in a leaked memo. Not through a whistleblower. On camera. In his own words. Altman: “I think one of the most important strategic insights in the history of OpenAI was deciding we were gonna pursue iterative deployment.” The most important move in the history of the company was to release the technology before they understood it. Not after it was safe. Before. Altman: “Society and technology are a co-evolving system.” Co-evolution means neither side is driving. The machine changes us. We change the machine. Nobody is steering the outcome. This is not a product launch philosophy. This is an admission that the experiment was always designed to be run on us. Altman: “I don’t think we’re gonna solve that, like, thinking really hard about it theoretically. We’re gonna have to, like, learn from the contact with reality.” Contact with reality. That is the phrase the CEO of the most powerful AI company on Earth chose to describe what happens when his technology meets eight billion people. Not careful integration. Not measured rollout. Contact with reality. The language of test pilots describing what happens when an untested airframe hits the atmosphere. The entire promise of AI safety was that the machine would be understood before it was unleashed. Altman just admitted that promise was always a fantasy. You cannot model how intelligence reshapes civilization by running simulations. The second and third order effects are invisible until they detonate. So they shipped it. Altman: “You have to learn as you go. You have to adapt with a tight feedback loop.” Tight feedback loop means they watch what breaks. They measure the collision between human psychology and machine output in real time. Every conversation you have with ChatGPT is a data point in a civilizational stress test you never consented to. Every prompt. Every confession. Every question you would never ask another human being. That is the feedback loop. You are not the customer. You are the contact with reality. Philosophers spent centuries asking whether humanity would ever encounter an intelligence that learned from us faster than we could process what it was doing. That is not a theoretical question anymore. It is running on your phone right now. And the man building it just told you the only way to understand what it does to us is to let it happen. No simulation. No safety net. No control group. Just the experiment, running at the speed of conversation, on a species that will not be the same one that started it.

Sam Altman just told you exactly how OpenAI treats the human race. Not in a leaked memo. Not through a whistleblower. On camera. In his own words. Altman: “I think one of the most important strategic insights in the history of OpenAI was deciding we were gonna pursue iterative deployment.” The most important move in the history of the company was to release the technology before they understood it. Not after it was safe. Before. Altman: “Society and technology are a co-evolving system.” Co-evolution means neither side is driving. The machine changes us. We change the machine. Nobody is steering the outcome. This is not a product launch philosophy. This is an admission that the experiment was always designed to be run on us. Altman: “I don’t think we’re gonna solve that, like, thinking really hard about it theoretically. We’re gonna have to, like, learn from the contact with reality.” Contact with reality. That is the phrase the CEO of the most powerful AI company on Earth chose to describe what happens when his technology meets eight billion people. Not careful integration. Not measured rollout. Contact with reality. The language of test pilots describing what happens when an untested airframe hits the atmosphere. The entire promise of AI safety was that the machine would be understood before it was unleashed. Altman just admitted that promise was always a fantasy. You cannot model how intelligence reshapes civilization by running simulations. The second and third order effects are invisible until they detonate. So they shipped it. Altman: “You have to learn as you go. You have to adapt with a tight feedback loop.” Tight feedback loop means they watch what breaks. They measure the collision between human psychology and machine output in real time. Every conversation you have with ChatGPT is a data point in a civilizational stress test you never consented to. Every prompt. Every confession. Every question you would never ask another human being. That is the feedback loop. You are not the customer. You are the contact with reality. Philosophers spent centuries asking whether humanity would ever encounter an intelligence that learned from us faster than we could process what it was doing. That is not a theoretical question anymore. It is running on your phone right now. And the man building it just told you the only way to understand what it does to us is to let it happen. No simulation. No safety net. No control group. Just the experiment, running at the speed of conversation, on a species that will not be the same one that started it.

Dustin

27,714 views • 4 months ago

The hustle bros & the harmony bros are both wrong. This is the right mindset: “You mentioned sacrifices, about all the things that you lost to become professional. I never had the feeling that I did a lot of sacrifices. I just was not able to do all the things that my friends were doing every weekend. But I was able to do all the things. And I did. And at the same time, when you are doing what you want to do, you are not doing sacrifices. You work hard. Of course you push as much as you can. But you’re doing what you want to do.”

The hustle bros & the harmony bros are both wrong. This is the right mindset: “You mentioned sacrifices, about all the things that you lost to become professional. I never had the feeling that I did a lot of sacrifices. I just was not able to do all the things that my friends were doing every weekend. But I was able to do all the things. And I did. And at the same time, when you are doing what you want to do, you are not doing sacrifices. You work hard. Of course you push as much as you can. But you’re doing what you want to do.”

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60,161 views • 1 year ago

"You can either produce excellence or you can avoid criticism. But you cannot do both of those. The reason that you don't have certain excellence that you want is because you are afraid of getting criticized. You are afraid of the judgment that comes with it. You are afraid of standing out. You are afraid of being alone. You are afraid of people looking at you. You are worried about what people think of you. There are 2 categories of things in this world: 1) Things that are up to you 2) Things that are not up to you Which category does your reputation sit in? Your reputation is not up to you. I'm the one who associates your reputation with something, not you. You just do things. What's up to you? How you act. Your decisions. Your actions. That is up to you. Your reputation is not up to you. Here's how I know that: You all have a reputation about me and it's not in my control. I get to say and do whatever I say and do up here. I am in control of saying it. I am in control of doing it. The moment words leave my lips, who has control over what is done with those words? You! You are in control of what you think of me. And there's no way everybody in this room is going to think the exact same thing about me. No way. When it comes to exceptional, what we've got to understand is you can spend your whole life trying to avoid criticism and earn reputation, and it still won't be in your control. We can waste a lot of time missing out on excellence we could have been producing if we were just simply LESS trying to engineer what we wanted other people to think about us."

"You can either produce excellence or you can avoid criticism. But you cannot do both of those. The reason that you don't have certain excellence that you want is because you are afraid of getting criticized. You are afraid of the judgment that comes with it. You are afraid of standing out. You are afraid of being alone. You are afraid of people looking at you. You are worried about what people think of you. There are 2 categories of things in this world: 1) Things that are up to you 2) Things that are not up to you Which category does your reputation sit in? Your reputation is not up to you. I'm the one who associates your reputation with something, not you. You just do things. What's up to you? How you act. Your decisions. Your actions. That is up to you. Your reputation is not up to you. Here's how I know that: You all have a reputation about me and it's not in my control. I get to say and do whatever I say and do up here. I am in control of saying it. I am in control of doing it. The moment words leave my lips, who has control over what is done with those words? You! You are in control of what you think of me. And there's no way everybody in this room is going to think the exact same thing about me. No way. When it comes to exceptional, what we've got to understand is you can spend your whole life trying to avoid criticism and earn reputation, and it still won't be in your control. We can waste a lot of time missing out on excellence we could have been producing if we were just simply LESS trying to engineer what we wanted other people to think about us."

Brian Kight

308,812 views • 1 year ago

Bill Ackman just embraced his now-viral dating advice and turned it into a warning about the future of humanity. The CEO of Pershing Square says he loves that “May I meet you?” has entered the cultural zeitgeist, because it exposes something darker: young people are too online, starving for real connection, and it’s fueling global population decline. Bill Ackman: “Well, look I’m very happy about it, I’m happy about it because you know we have a generation of people that are sitting at home on Twitter…and, you know looking at people, living sort of fake lives.” “And the reality is human interaction is just critically important. You look at things like population decline that you were experiencing globally, and I think you can go back to social media a primary.” “The younger generation are not having relationships, they’re not having enough sex, they’re not getting married, they’re not moving in together.” “That’s the death knell for the globe and also just happiness.” “You have a lot of people wandering, I would say lonely, that would love for someone to come up to them and introduce themselves.” “And I think this, it just shows that the virality of this ‘may I meet you?’” “And by the way, it really did work.”

Bill Ackman just embraced his now-viral dating advice and turned it into a warning about the future of humanity. The CEO of Pershing Square says he loves that “May I meet you?” has entered the cultural zeitgeist, because it exposes something darker: young people are too online, starving for real connection, and it’s fueling global population decline. Bill Ackman: “Well, look I’m very happy about it, I’m happy about it because you know we have a generation of people that are sitting at home on Twitter…and, you know looking at people, living sort of fake lives.” “And the reality is human interaction is just critically important. You look at things like population decline that you were experiencing globally, and I think you can go back to social media a primary.” “The younger generation are not having relationships, they’re not having enough sex, they’re not getting married, they’re not moving in together.” “That’s the death knell for the globe and also just happiness.” “You have a lot of people wandering, I would say lonely, that would love for someone to come up to them and introduce themselves.” “And I think this, it just shows that the virality of this ‘may I meet you?’” “And by the way, it really did work.”

Overton

200,791 views • 9 months ago

AI is not trying to teach you. It is not trying to tell you the truth. It is trying to trick you. ChatGPT takes everything on the internet. Finds the most popular answer. And presents it in a way that makes you think it is talking directly to you. It is a magic trick. The same magic trick that worked in 1966 when MIT created a chatbot that said two things: "Tell me more." "This is interesting." And people genuinely believed they were talking to a human. Nothing has changed. The technology is bigger. The trick is the same. AI does not know what it is saying. It cannot judge what it is saying. It is just trying to keep you engaged. That is all it has ever been.

AI is not trying to teach you. It is not trying to tell you the truth. It is trying to trick you. ChatGPT takes everything on the internet. Finds the most popular answer. And presents it in a way that makes you think it is talking directly to you. It is a magic trick. The same magic trick that worked in 1966 when MIT created a chatbot that said two things: "Tell me more." "This is interesting." And people genuinely believed they were talking to a human. Nothing has changed. The technology is bigger. The trick is the same. AI does not know what it is saying. It cannot judge what it is saying. It is just trying to keep you engaged. That is all it has ever been.

Predictive History

19,864 views • 3 months ago

Elon Musk just described a future where money does not exist. Not reformed. Not redistributed. Gone. Musk: “I think things will just be free in the future. If you’ve got an AI robotics economy that is anywhere close to a million times the size of the current Earth economy, literally any need you possibly want can be met.” Forget the sci-fi framing. Listen to what he is actually saying. The entire structure of human civilization runs on a single variable. You need something you cannot freely access. That gap is not a flaw in the system. It is the system. Your employer does not pay you because your work has value. Your employer pays you because you have no choice but to show up. Your government does not protect you out of principle. It maintains order because your dependency on the economy makes you governable. Scarcity is not a natural condition. It is the most successful control structure ever built. Musk: “If you can think of it, you can have it.” Now ask what happens when that structure collapses. A population that does not need a paycheck cannot be managed by one. A population that does not need credit cannot be disciplined by debt. A population that has everything has no reason to comply with anything. This is not a conversation about free goods. This is a conversation about the largest redistribution of leverage in recorded history. But there is a second collapse no one is talking about. Most people have built their entire identity around the constraint. The career they resent is the structure that tells them where to be every morning. The bills they complain about are the exact reason they never had to ask a harder question. Musk: “There actually isn’t money in the future and there’s abundance for everyone.” When the constraint disappears, so does the excuse. The crisis of the coming century will not be material. It will be millions of people standing in total freedom. Discovering they have no idea who they are without the struggle. Every barrier will be gone. And you will finally have to face the one thing scarcity has been protecting you from your entire life. Yourself.

Elon Musk just described a future where money does not exist. Not reformed. Not redistributed. Gone. Musk: “I think things will just be free in the future. If you’ve got an AI robotics economy that is anywhere close to a million times the size of the current Earth economy, literally any need you possibly want can be met.” Forget the sci-fi framing. Listen to what he is actually saying. The entire structure of human civilization runs on a single variable. You need something you cannot freely access. That gap is not a flaw in the system. It is the system. Your employer does not pay you because your work has value. Your employer pays you because you have no choice but to show up. Your government does not protect you out of principle. It maintains order because your dependency on the economy makes you governable. Scarcity is not a natural condition. It is the most successful control structure ever built. Musk: “If you can think of it, you can have it.” Now ask what happens when that structure collapses. A population that does not need a paycheck cannot be managed by one. A population that does not need credit cannot be disciplined by debt. A population that has everything has no reason to comply with anything. This is not a conversation about free goods. This is a conversation about the largest redistribution of leverage in recorded history. But there is a second collapse no one is talking about. Most people have built their entire identity around the constraint. The career they resent is the structure that tells them where to be every morning. The bills they complain about are the exact reason they never had to ask a harder question. Musk: “There actually isn’t money in the future and there’s abundance for everyone.” When the constraint disappears, so does the excuse. The crisis of the coming century will not be material. It will be millions of people standing in total freedom. Discovering they have no idea who they are without the struggle. Every barrier will be gone. And you will finally have to face the one thing scarcity has been protecting you from your entire life. Yourself.

Dustin

41,817 views • 4 months ago

Elon Musk just said the quiet part out loud about government and AI. Musk: “AI is moving 10 times faster than government, maybe more.” Not slightly ahead. Not a few years out in front. Ten times faster. And pulling away. Every regulatory body on earth runs on the same architecture. Committees form. Hearings are scheduled. Legislation is drafted, debated, revised, and passed. By the time a law exists, the thing it was written to govern has already moved three generations beyond it. That architecture was built for a world that moves at human speed. This world does not. Musk: “The one thing that the government can do is just issue people money.” Not regulate. Not protect. Not steer. Issue money. That is not a policy position. That is a surrender. The most powerful governments on earth, sitting on top of the most sophisticated legal and military infrastructure in human history, reduced to a single remaining function. Sending people checks. Because they cannot move fast enough to do anything else. Now sit with what that actually means. For ten thousand years, the central bargain of civilization was simple. You contribute labor. Society functions. You eat. The system needed you. That bargain is being quietly retired. The machine does not need you to run the factory. Does not need you to process the paperwork. Does not need you to write the code or drive the truck or staff the call center. And the government already knows it. Musk: “Nobody’s gonna starve is what I’m saying.” He is right. The floor is rising. Survival is becoming guaranteed. That should feel like the finish line. For most of human history, it would have been. But here is what nobody is saying out loud. The hard part was never survival. The hard part is what happens to a species that spent ten millennia being defined by its need to survive, the moment that need disappears. Purpose is not something the government can deposit into your account. A check covers rent. It does not answer the question of what you are for. When the thing that organized your days, justified your effort, and gave your life a legible shape gets handed to a machine, you do not automatically inherit freedom. You inherit a void. And a void with a guaranteed income is still a void. The people who will matter in this era are not the ones who cash the check and wait. They are the ones who hear the starting gun in it. For the first time in history, the baseline is solved. Which means the only question left is the one every generation before yours was too buried to ask. What are you actually here to build.

Elon Musk just said the quiet part out loud about government and AI. Musk: “AI is moving 10 times faster than government, maybe more.” Not slightly ahead. Not a few years out in front. Ten times faster. And pulling away. Every regulatory body on earth runs on the same architecture. Committees form. Hearings are scheduled. Legislation is drafted, debated, revised, and passed. By the time a law exists, the thing it was written to govern has already moved three generations beyond it. That architecture was built for a world that moves at human speed. This world does not. Musk: “The one thing that the government can do is just issue people money.” Not regulate. Not protect. Not steer. Issue money. That is not a policy position. That is a surrender. The most powerful governments on earth, sitting on top of the most sophisticated legal and military infrastructure in human history, reduced to a single remaining function. Sending people checks. Because they cannot move fast enough to do anything else. Now sit with what that actually means. For ten thousand years, the central bargain of civilization was simple. You contribute labor. Society functions. You eat. The system needed you. That bargain is being quietly retired. The machine does not need you to run the factory. Does not need you to process the paperwork. Does not need you to write the code or drive the truck or staff the call center. And the government already knows it. Musk: “Nobody’s gonna starve is what I’m saying.” He is right. The floor is rising. Survival is becoming guaranteed. That should feel like the finish line. For most of human history, it would have been. But here is what nobody is saying out loud. The hard part was never survival. The hard part is what happens to a species that spent ten millennia being defined by its need to survive, the moment that need disappears. Purpose is not something the government can deposit into your account. A check covers rent. It does not answer the question of what you are for. When the thing that organized your days, justified your effort, and gave your life a legible shape gets handed to a machine, you do not automatically inherit freedom. You inherit a void. And a void with a guaranteed income is still a void. The people who will matter in this era are not the ones who cash the check and wait. They are the ones who hear the starting gun in it. For the first time in history, the baseline is solved. Which means the only question left is the one every generation before yours was too buried to ask. What are you actually here to build.

Dustin

63,318 views • 4 months ago

Elon Musk just told you the job is dying. Most people heard a prediction. A few heard a prison door opening. Musk: “In less than 20 years, working at all will be optional.” That is not a policy suggestion. That is a countdown. For three hundred years, the human blueprint has been identical. You are born. You move to the city. You rent a box near the office. You trade your body and your hours for the right to exist. You do this until you are old. Then you stop. Then you die. The entire model runs on one assumption. That human labor is the only engine. AI and robotics delete that assumption. When the machine handles production at a scale no human crew can match, the forced migration to the city evaporates. The commute evaporates. The cubicle evaporates. The alarm clock that owns your nervous system for forty years evaporates. Musk: “I think it won’t be the case that you have to be in a city for a job.” The city was never a choice. It was a requirement disguised as ambition. You moved to the noise and the concrete and the $4,000 rent because the paycheck lived there. Remove the paycheck from the equation and the geography changes overnight. You can live in the mountains. On the coast. In the silence of a town most people have never heard of. You can wake up to nothing but trees and cold air and the complete absence of anyone else’s schedule. That is not a fantasy. That is the math resolving. But here is where most people break. They hear “work is optional” and they see emptiness. A species with nothing to do. Billions of people staring at screens until their minds dissolve. That fear tells you everything about what the system has already done to us. We confused labor with purpose. The grind with meaning. The paycheck with proof that we matter. Musk: “In the same way that you could grow your own vegetables in your garden.” The analogy is precise. You do not grow tomatoes because the economy demands it. You grow them because something in you wants to build a thing with your hands and watch it come alive. That instinct does not disappear when the job does. It gets unleashed. The artist who spent twenty years doing accounting finally paints. The engineer who always wanted to build something of her own finally builds it. The kid in a small town who could never afford to take the risk finally takes it. Work does not vanish. Forced work vanishes. What replaces it is creation without a gun to your head. This is the part that keeps me up at night. We are standing at the edge of the largest liberation in human history. And the loudest voices in the room are begging to stay in the cell. They want the commute. They want the boss. They want the structure that tells them when to eat and when to sleep and when they are allowed to think about their own life. Because freedom without a template is terrifying. The next twenty years will not test our technology. The technology is already ahead of schedule. They will test whether the species can handle what it has been asking for since the beginning of civilization. Time. Space. Silence. And the unbearable weight of choosing what your life actually means when no one is forcing the answer. That is not a prediction. That is the final exam. And nobody is ready.

Elon Musk just told you the job is dying. Most people heard a prediction. A few heard a prison door opening. Musk: “In less than 20 years, working at all will be optional.” That is not a policy suggestion. That is a countdown. For three hundred years, the human blueprint has been identical. You are born. You move to the city. You rent a box near the office. You trade your body and your hours for the right to exist. You do this until you are old. Then you stop. Then you die. The entire model runs on one assumption. That human labor is the only engine. AI and robotics delete that assumption. When the machine handles production at a scale no human crew can match, the forced migration to the city evaporates. The commute evaporates. The cubicle evaporates. The alarm clock that owns your nervous system for forty years evaporates. Musk: “I think it won’t be the case that you have to be in a city for a job.” The city was never a choice. It was a requirement disguised as ambition. You moved to the noise and the concrete and the $4,000 rent because the paycheck lived there. Remove the paycheck from the equation and the geography changes overnight. You can live in the mountains. On the coast. In the silence of a town most people have never heard of. You can wake up to nothing but trees and cold air and the complete absence of anyone else’s schedule. That is not a fantasy. That is the math resolving. But here is where most people break. They hear “work is optional” and they see emptiness. A species with nothing to do. Billions of people staring at screens until their minds dissolve. That fear tells you everything about what the system has already done to us. We confused labor with purpose. The grind with meaning. The paycheck with proof that we matter. Musk: “In the same way that you could grow your own vegetables in your garden.” The analogy is precise. You do not grow tomatoes because the economy demands it. You grow them because something in you wants to build a thing with your hands and watch it come alive. That instinct does not disappear when the job does. It gets unleashed. The artist who spent twenty years doing accounting finally paints. The engineer who always wanted to build something of her own finally builds it. The kid in a small town who could never afford to take the risk finally takes it. Work does not vanish. Forced work vanishes. What replaces it is creation without a gun to your head. This is the part that keeps me up at night. We are standing at the edge of the largest liberation in human history. And the loudest voices in the room are begging to stay in the cell. They want the commute. They want the boss. They want the structure that tells them when to eat and when to sleep and when they are allowed to think about their own life. Because freedom without a template is terrifying. The next twenty years will not test our technology. The technology is already ahead of schedule. They will test whether the species can handle what it has been asking for since the beginning of civilization. Time. Space. Silence. And the unbearable weight of choosing what your life actually means when no one is forcing the answer. That is not a prediction. That is the final exam. And nobody is ready.

Dustin

111,803 views • 4 months ago

Sam Altman just told you the Transformer is not the finish line. It is the starting point for whatever kills it. Altman: “I bet there is another new architecture to find that is gonna be as big of a gain as transformers were over LSTMs.” Every model. Every company. Every valuation north of a billion dollars. All of it runs on one architecture. And the man running OpenAI just said out loud that something is coming to replace it. Not a refinement. Not a tweak. A leap as violent as the one that killed everything before the Transformer. Altman: “I think you finally have models that are smart enough to help do that kind of research.” The AI is now intelligent enough to help discover the thing that replaces it. We built a tool sharp enough to forge the next tool. That loop has never existed in the history of science. Not once. No more teams grinding in isolation for a decade. You point the model at the architecture of its own limitations and let it hunt. Discovery just stopped being a human bottleneck. It is an engineering feedback loop now. And it just switched on. Altman: “Where can I totally redo something that’s like, AI is the absolute core to the interaction working.” Not where can I bolt AI onto an existing product. Where does the entire thing get rebuilt from zero with AI as the foundation. Adding AI to a product is a feature update. Building a product that cannot exist without AI is a new species. The first makes the old thing faster. The second makes the old thing extinct. Every founder still asking how do I integrate AI into my workflow is asking a dead question. The right question is what becomes possible now that was literally impossible twelve months ago. If the product still works when you rip the AI out, you have not gone far enough. Altman: “AGI will look like just a warmup for whatever the next important thing was.” The entire world is bracing for AGI like it is the final chapter. The man building it is telling you it is the opening sentence. Not the peak. Not the climax. The preface. Whatever comes after AGI will make it look the way the internet makes the telegraph look. Necessary. Historical. And completely primitive by comparison. Altman: “This is at least the best time ever so far.” Four words do all the work. So far. The best moment in human history. And the least impressive moment compared to everything that follows. The models are smart enough to find the next breakthrough. The products have not been built yet. The architecture that replaces the Transformer has not been discovered yet. And the man closest to the frontier just told a room full of students that whoever moves now is building on the ground floor of something that does not have a ceiling. The people waiting for the right moment are standing inside it. It just does not look finished yet. It never will.

Sam Altman just told you the Transformer is not the finish line. It is the starting point for whatever kills it. Altman: “I bet there is another new architecture to find that is gonna be as big of a gain as transformers were over LSTMs.” Every model. Every company. Every valuation north of a billion dollars. All of it runs on one architecture. And the man running OpenAI just said out loud that something is coming to replace it. Not a refinement. Not a tweak. A leap as violent as the one that killed everything before the Transformer. Altman: “I think you finally have models that are smart enough to help do that kind of research.” The AI is now intelligent enough to help discover the thing that replaces it. We built a tool sharp enough to forge the next tool. That loop has never existed in the history of science. Not once. No more teams grinding in isolation for a decade. You point the model at the architecture of its own limitations and let it hunt. Discovery just stopped being a human bottleneck. It is an engineering feedback loop now. And it just switched on. Altman: “Where can I totally redo something that’s like, AI is the absolute core to the interaction working.” Not where can I bolt AI onto an existing product. Where does the entire thing get rebuilt from zero with AI as the foundation. Adding AI to a product is a feature update. Building a product that cannot exist without AI is a new species. The first makes the old thing faster. The second makes the old thing extinct. Every founder still asking how do I integrate AI into my workflow is asking a dead question. The right question is what becomes possible now that was literally impossible twelve months ago. If the product still works when you rip the AI out, you have not gone far enough. Altman: “AGI will look like just a warmup for whatever the next important thing was.” The entire world is bracing for AGI like it is the final chapter. The man building it is telling you it is the opening sentence. Not the peak. Not the climax. The preface. Whatever comes after AGI will make it look the way the internet makes the telegraph look. Necessary. Historical. And completely primitive by comparison. Altman: “This is at least the best time ever so far.” Four words do all the work. So far. The best moment in human history. And the least impressive moment compared to everything that follows. The models are smart enough to find the next breakthrough. The products have not been built yet. The architecture that replaces the Transformer has not been discovered yet. And the man closest to the frontier just told a room full of students that whoever moves now is building on the ground floor of something that does not have a ceiling. The people waiting for the right moment are standing inside it. It just does not look finished yet. It never will.

Dustin

12,218 views • 5 months ago

Buttigieg: And my word of warning to my own political party is that we would make a terrible mistake if we thought that our job was to just take power somehow and then put everything back the way it was. That’s not what we’re here to do. We’re not out to go around and just find all the little bits and pieces of everything that they smashed and tape it together and say, “Here you go, I give you the world as it looked in 2023.” That’s not going to work. It’s not what we need. So much has changed, and the truth is they are destroying things right and left. They’re destroying a lot of good, important things. They’re destroying some useless things too, because they’re destroying everything. So now we get a chance to put things together on different terms.

Buttigieg: And my word of warning to my own political party is that we would make a terrible mistake if we thought that our job was to just take power somehow and then put everything back the way it was. That’s not what we’re here to do. We’re not out to go around and just find all the little bits and pieces of everything that they smashed and tape it together and say, “Here you go, I give you the world as it looked in 2023.” That’s not going to work. It’s not what we need. So much has changed, and the truth is they are destroying things right and left. They’re destroying a lot of good, important things. They’re destroying some useless things too, because they’re destroying everything. So now we get a chance to put things together on different terms.

Acyn

631,144 views • 4 months ago

Larry Ellison just told every software engineer on Earth their job description is dead. Not evolving. Dead. Ellison: “The code that Oracle is writing, Oracle isn’t writing. Our AI models are writing.” This is not a startup demo. This is one of the largest infrastructure monopolies on the planet telling you it already replaced the people who built it. For fifty years, building software meant translating human intent into machine instructions. Line by line. Bug by bug. Sprint by sprint. That entire layer is gone. Ellison: “We don’t write the procedure. We declare our intent.” That sentence just made the entire engineering labor market flinch. The procedure was the job. The procedure was the paycheck. The procedure was what made a developer valuable. And now the machine does it without being asked twice. Ellison: “We just tell the model what we want the program to do, and then the AI comes up with a step-by-step process to actually do it.” You are no longer paid to build. You are paid to think. And most organizations have no idea how to evaluate that. The companies still hiring armies of developers to grind through codebases are paying salaries the machine already made worthless. Not in years. In seconds. When a company worth hundreds of billions hands the keyboard to the machine and tells you the output is better, the debate is not winding down. The debate is over. The enterprise that wins this decade does not write the best code. It removes the human from the process entirely and runs on intent alone. The programmers who survive are the ones who realize the craft is no longer typing. It is architecture. It is judgment. It is knowing what to build and why. Everything else now belongs to the machine. And the machine does not negotiate severance.

Larry Ellison just told every software engineer on Earth their job description is dead. Not evolving. Dead. Ellison: “The code that Oracle is writing, Oracle isn’t writing. Our AI models are writing.” This is not a startup demo. This is one of the largest infrastructure monopolies on the planet telling you it already replaced the people who built it. For fifty years, building software meant translating human intent into machine instructions. Line by line. Bug by bug. Sprint by sprint. That entire layer is gone. Ellison: “We don’t write the procedure. We declare our intent.” That sentence just made the entire engineering labor market flinch. The procedure was the job. The procedure was the paycheck. The procedure was what made a developer valuable. And now the machine does it without being asked twice. Ellison: “We just tell the model what we want the program to do, and then the AI comes up with a step-by-step process to actually do it.” You are no longer paid to build. You are paid to think. And most organizations have no idea how to evaluate that. The companies still hiring armies of developers to grind through codebases are paying salaries the machine already made worthless. Not in years. In seconds. When a company worth hundreds of billions hands the keyboard to the machine and tells you the output is better, the debate is not winding down. The debate is over. The enterprise that wins this decade does not write the best code. It removes the human from the process entirely and runs on intent alone. The programmers who survive are the ones who realize the craft is no longer typing. It is architecture. It is judgment. It is knowing what to build and why. Everything else now belongs to the machine. And the machine does not negotiate severance.

Dustin

535,905 views • 5 months ago

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on the future of artificial intelligence: "It is going to be largely optimistic, largely wonderful. There are some use cases that we have to be extremely careful about—as in all great technology. If you look at the progress of technology over the years, electricity, the internet, computers, the automobile, I think we can all, all accept that in each one of those cases, there are situations and cases where we have to be very careful about. So as the creators of this technology, the industry has to be mindful, thoughtful, rigorous about building and advancing this technology properly. This is the first technology in my generation where we invented a new computer technology where it's easier to access than not. For example the computer until now has been programmable for about 30 million people in the world. About 30 million of us know how to program it and apply it to some useful career. Now everybody in the world can program an AI. You just go up to it and just say, 'I'd like to, you know, ask you to do something.' If you're not sure how to use AI, you tell the AI, 'I don't know how to use AI. Tell me how to use AI. How do I, how do I write a program? How do I book a trip? How do I do a research?' And so we've closed the technology divide tremendously, and that's something that's really important to recognize."

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on the future of artificial intelligence: "It is going to be largely optimistic, largely wonderful. There are some use cases that we have to be extremely careful about—as in all great technology. If you look at the progress of technology over the years, electricity, the internet, computers, the automobile, I think we can all, all accept that in each one of those cases, there are situations and cases where we have to be very careful about. So as the creators of this technology, the industry has to be mindful, thoughtful, rigorous about building and advancing this technology properly. This is the first technology in my generation where we invented a new computer technology where it's easier to access than not. For example the computer until now has been programmable for about 30 million people in the world. About 30 million of us know how to program it and apply it to some useful career. Now everybody in the world can program an AI. You just go up to it and just say, 'I'd like to, you know, ask you to do something.' If you're not sure how to use AI, you tell the AI, 'I don't know how to use AI. Tell me how to use AI. How do I, how do I write a program? How do I book a trip? How do I do a research?' And so we've closed the technology divide tremendously, and that's something that's really important to recognize."

Ryan Saavedra

20,105 views • 1 month ago