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 in the middle of this, there's just a phenomenal line because I keep trying to hound the fact that Demis hates losing, that he is hyper-competitive.
This is how he describes what losing feels like to him.
It's like my soul is on fire.
And so one way that Demis learns to be more practical is by making a mistake.
He has this...
He has this idea for this game called Republic.
Republic was this overly ambitious, basically technically impossible idea of a game.
It's going to lead to the failure of his first company.
And there's just this really great point that he makes here.
Over the next couple of years, Republic's release date was pushed back repeatedly.
As the keeper of the vision, Demis fought a rearguard action against compromise.
And it took time for him to recognize the trap that his own charisma created.
Who would have thought that you can actually inspire people too much, he said.
Well, you can because you can get to the point where you're deluding your team and then they are deluding you also.
It's like I'm making this judgment that this is possible because the engineers are telling me it's possible, but they're only telling me it's possible because I've over-inspired them, Demis said.
So in fact, none of us were getting real feedback.
his co-founder talks about on how to communicate and debate and really just persuade Demas.
You had to push the conversation to the point where he got more and more intense and defended his positions more and more strongly.
The stronger he got, the closer you were.
Then eventually he might go quiet.
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