Bret Weinstein

imagine that i know the solution to this and i'm going to build it you imagine i think there's a solution down there i'm going to make a proof of concept and then i'm going to discover what i don't know and i'm going to make the next version discover what i don't know and eventually you may get to something that actually truly accomplishes the goal so prototyping is one thing and also instead of using the blueprint as the metaphor in your mind

imagine that i know the solution to this and i'm going to build it you imagine i think there's a solution down there i'm going to make a proof of concept and then i'm going to discover what i don't know and i'm going to make the next version discover what i don't know and eventually you may get to something that actually truly accomplishes the goal so prototyping is one thing and also instead of using the blueprint as the metaphor in your mind

Navigate. You can navigate somewhere. And, you know, the way I think of it is a surfer is in some ways mastering a complex system. But they're not doing it by planning their days surfing down the waves. You can't do that. What you can do is you can be expert at absorbing feedback and navigating your way down the wave and that that's the right approach for a complex system.

Navigate. You can navigate somewhere. And, you know, the way I think of it is a surfer is in some ways mastering a complex system. But they're not doing it by planning their days surfing down the waves. You can't do that. What you can do is you can be expert at absorbing feedback and navigating your way down the wave and that that's the right approach for a complex system.

Nothing else is going to work. And so I guess... The final piece is general tools always, no specialization. This is the age of generalists and invest in those tools and they will pay.

Nothing else is going to work. And so I guess... The final piece is general tools always, no specialization. This is the age of generalists and invest in those tools and they will pay.

I think it's sad that it is inevitable, but at this point, it is.

I think it's sad that it is inevitable, but at this point, it is.

we have squandered a long period of productivity and peace in which we could have prepared for this moment. And our narrow focus on competition has created a A fragile world that I'm afraid is not going to survive the disruption that's coming. And it didn't have to be that way. This was foreseeable.

we have squandered a long period of productivity and peace in which we could have prepared for this moment. And our narrow focus on competition has created a A fragile world that I'm afraid is not going to survive the disruption that's coming. And it didn't have to be that way. This was foreseeable.

Frankly, the movie 2001, which came out the year before I was born, anticipates some of these problems. And, you know, we treated it too much like education.

Frankly, the movie 2001, which came out the year before I was born, anticipates some of these problems. And, you know, we treated it too much like education.

i mean like entertainment and not enough like education so we are now you know we've had the ai era opened without a discussion about its implications for humanity there is now for game theoretic reasons no way to slow that pace because as you point out if we restrain ourselves we simply put the ai in the hands of our competitors that's not a solution so i don't advocate it

i mean like entertainment and not enough like education so we are now you know we've had the ai era opened without a discussion about its implications for humanity there is now for game theoretic reasons no way to slow that pace because as you point out if we restrain ourselves we simply put the ai in the hands of our competitors that's not a solution so i don't advocate it

But there's a lot more preparation we could have done. We could have recognized that there were a lot of people in jobs that were about to be obliterated. And we could have thought deeply about what the moral implications were and what the solutions at our disposal might have been. And having not prepared, it's going to be a lot more carnage than it needed to be.

But there's a lot more preparation we could have done. We could have recognized that there were a lot of people in jobs that were about to be obliterated. And we could have thought deeply about what the moral implications were and what the solutions at our disposal might have been. And having not prepared, it's going to be a lot more carnage than it needed to be.

I have a few things to say about this. One, I'm pretty sure your cat's not as impressed with your capacity as you are or as you think he is. I just know cats well enough to be pretty sure of that.

I have a few things to say about this. One, I'm pretty sure your cat's not as impressed with your capacity as you are or as you think he is. I just know cats well enough to be pretty sure of that.

I think it's a fair point that there is an existence. And actually, you know, pets really do have it. If they have loving owners, they really do have it. pretty great. And I would also point out that there's a way in which we already are this way. Most of us do not understand the process that results in electricity coming out of the walls of our house or the water that comes out of the tap.

I think it's a fair point that there is an existence. And actually, you know, pets really do have it. If they have loving owners, they really do have it. pretty great. And I would also point out that there's a way in which we already are this way. Most of us do not understand the process that results in electricity coming out of the walls of our house or the water that comes out of the tap.