Demis Hassabis
speaker
3,420 appearances
27 recordings
18 series
first heard Feb 2024
last heard 7 Jul
Demis Hassabis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I finally said to him, this is ridiculous.
I obviously tried my best.
I'm not intentionally losing.
And then that was that.
I wasn't going to take it anymore.
That was the last time I remember him screaming at me.
And so then Demis comments on what his co-founder was talking about, the fact that his dad would say, hey, you need to always do your best.
And so he's talking, he describes how he interpreted this.
And keep in mind, he is nine or 10 years old when he's thinking like this.
The slightly warped way I took this was, how do you know if you've done your best?
The only way I could know is if I basically push myself to the point just before death, because that is literally when you've done your best.
If you die, and by die I mean burn out or something, then you've slightly overdone it.
It's like running a marathon.
You have to basically fall over the line, and then ideally you should be hospitalized but not dead.
That's when you can say you've done your best.
If you've got any energy left and you're still standing, maybe you could have tried harder.
And so at this point of life, he just assumed, OK, I'm going to be a professional chess player.
But then he goes to this tournament and he realizes, wait a minute, I need to dedicate this colossal waste of brainpower.
Maybe I should dedicate my life and energy to something more meaningful and world changing than playing a board game for the rest of my life.
So he says they experienced an epiphany.
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