Bret Weinstein
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How do you receive all of this? Well, on the one hand, I agree that the closer to one-to-one you get, the better. But I also personally believe that zero to one is best. And what I mean by that is...
How do you receive all of this? Well, on the one hand, I agree that the closer to one-to-one you get, the better. But I also personally believe that zero to one is best. And what I mean by that is...
Part of what's gone wrong with our educational system is that it is done through abstraction and effectively the arbiter of whether you have succeeded or failed in learning the lesson is the person at the front of the room. And that's okay if the person at the front of the room is truly insightful and it's terrible if the person at the front of the room is lackluster, which happens a lot.
Part of what's gone wrong with our educational system is that it is done through abstraction and effectively the arbiter of whether you have succeeded or failed in learning the lesson is the person at the front of the room. And that's okay if the person at the front of the room is truly insightful and it's terrible if the person at the front of the room is lackluster, which happens a lot.
So what doesn't work that way is interaction with the physical world in which nobody has to tell you whether you've succeeded or failed. If you're faced with an engine that doesn't start, you can't argue it into starting. You have to figure out what the thing is that has caused it to fail, and then there's a great reward when you alter that thing and suddenly it fires up. So I'm a big fan of...
So what doesn't work that way is interaction with the physical world in which nobody has to tell you whether you've succeeded or failed. If you're faced with an engine that doesn't start, you can't argue it into starting. You have to figure out what the thing is that has caused it to fail, and then there's a great reward when you alter that thing and suddenly it fires up. So I'm a big fan of...
Being as light-handed as possible and as concrete as possible in teaching. In other words, when I've done it, and not just with students, but with my own children, I like to say as little as possible, and I like to let physical systems tell the person when they've succeeded or failed. And that creates an understanding you can extrapolate from one system to the next.
Being as light-handed as possible and as concrete as possible in teaching. In other words, when I've done it, and not just with students, but with my own children, I like to say as little as possible, and I like to let physical systems tell the person when they've succeeded or failed. And that creates an understanding you can extrapolate from one system to the next.
And you know that you're not just extrapolating from one person's misunderstanding. You're extrapolating from the way things actually work. So I don't know if AI can be leveraged in that context. My sense is there's probably a way to do it, but one would have to be deliberate about it. Especially with robotics and humanoid robots. Actually, that is the place where you can do this is with robotics.
And you know that you're not just extrapolating from one person's misunderstanding. You're extrapolating from the way things actually work. So I don't know if AI can be leveraged in that context. My sense is there's probably a way to do it, but one would have to be deliberate about it. Especially with robotics and humanoid robots. Actually, that is the place where you can do this is with robotics.
Yeah. It seems to me, yeah. Well, robotics will teach you the physical computing part of it, and then the question is how do you infuse this with AI so that it provokes you out of some eddy where you're caught and moves you into the ability to solve some next-level problem that you wouldn't have found on your own.
Yeah. It seems to me, yeah. Well, robotics will teach you the physical computing part of it, and then the question is how do you infuse this with AI so that it provokes you out of some eddy where you're caught and moves you into the ability to solve some next-level problem that you wouldn't have found on your own.
Rule number one that I tell my kids is stay away from porn at all costs. I'd rather you have a drug problem than a porn problem, and I actually mean that. I think porn is more dangerous to the human being, as bad as a drug problem is.
Rule number one that I tell my kids is stay away from porn at all costs. I'd rather you have a drug problem than a porn problem, and I actually mean that. I think porn is more dangerous to the human being, as bad as a drug problem is.
But when we get to the question of how to confront the world and the things that you're going to be expected to do in the workplace and all of that, my point to them is stay you are facing the dawning of the age of complex systems that you are going to have to interact with. And in the age of complex systems, you have to understand that you cannot blueprint a solution.
But when we get to the question of how to confront the world and the things that you're going to be expected to do in the workplace and all of that, my point to them is stay you are facing the dawning of the age of complex systems that you are going to have to interact with. And in the age of complex systems, you have to understand that you cannot blueprint a solution.
And you have to approach these systems with a upgraded toolkit of humility because the ability of the system to do something you don't predict is much greater than a highly complicated system. You have to anticipate that and be very sensitive to the fact that what you intended to happen is not what's going to happen.
And you have to approach these systems with a upgraded toolkit of humility because the ability of the system to do something you don't predict is much greater than a highly complicated system. You have to anticipate that and be very sensitive to the fact that what you intended to happen is not what's going to happen.
So you have to monitor the unintended consequences of whatever your action is and that there are really two tools which work, one of which you just mentioned, which is the prototyping. You prototype things. You don't.
So you have to monitor the unintended consequences of whatever your action is and that there are really two tools which work, one of which you just mentioned, which is the prototyping. You prototype things. You don't.