Amjad Masad

Tesla said that all of his ideas like came from dreams.

Yeah.

Like spirit world.

Einstein too.

Like Einstein was like, oh, sitting in his chair and like dreaming the whole time.

And so we kind of lose something about what is...

essential to us as humans and what is true discovery and inspiration when you think about the world in purely mechanistic ways.

And I...

I doubt that without struggling with these questions that we're going to be able to replicate that into machines and have machines going to go discover new discoveries.

They're going to do a lot of amazing things for science, like protein folding is an exact kind of problem that you want to direct an AI on.

It's a computational intractable problem.

It's really hard for us to solve in many different ways.

explicit ways it is a large data problem big data problem and so we're going to use ai to advance science in all sorts of exciting ways those original paradigm shifting ideas i think are human in a way that that is hard to describe is there any spiritual practice you do to come up with ideas be more creative or just do better in business

I do cold plunges.

And when I do a cold plunge, it shuts down this like constant thinking, talking mind that I have.

And suddenly I become more receptive to inspiration and ideas outside of me.

I don't know.

I think you can replicate some of that in meditation.

I haven't done that very well, but like I find like physical shock to my body tends to create stillness.

And so cold plunge is one of the big ways you can get it with exercise as well.