Demis Hassabis
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Podcast Appearances
So we're talking late 80s.
I thought you were going to say that he partied hard and hooked up with tons of girls.
This guy's perfect then.
I think that people talk about this, but I don't think it talks about enough.
where I think Tim Dillon's a comedian, where he was like, everyone thinks the president of the United States is most powerful, but there's one person who's never around, you can't see him, but he truly runs everything, and that's Peter Thiel.
And he was saying that at Trump's inauguration, it was like J.D.
Vance, who's a Thiel guy, was all the CEOs, Thiel guy, Thiel guy, Zuck, Thiel guy.
And it was like, Peter Thiel is the guy.
And then I recently read a whole bunch of old quotes from him.
And it's just like everything he says is timeless and has been true so often.
He's like a city, dude.
So a lot of times it starts with, was it Plato or Socrates, where it like, well, Socrates taught Plato, Plato taught Alexander the Great, and also Aristotle.
And it's sort of like there's like this one person that's like the root.
So when you say build, is there actual physical building as well?
I think one of his breakthroughs was like when they played the Asian game, right?
And so Go, I didn't entirely understand.
It almost looks like Chinese checkers, but it sounds like it's more complicated.
And they claim that it's the most complicated game on earth because it has the most permutations on how you could possibly win or lose.
Past games.
Dude, this storyline is as old as John Henry.