Josh Waitzkin
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And I think that if you can imagine an art like chess having millennia of development, people studying it, like you train jiu-jitsu, right? So imagine people training 10 hours a day for 30, 40 years, being the greatest human in the world at it. And then something can come in and within three hours of experimentation be much stronger than them. And imagine that's gonna be in fucking everything.
And I think that if you can imagine an art like chess having millennia of development, people studying it, like you train jiu-jitsu, right? So imagine people training 10 hours a day for 30, 40 years, being the greatest human in the world at it. And then something can come in and within three hours of experimentation be much stronger than them. And imagine that's gonna be in fucking everything.
And I think that if you can imagine an art like chess having millennia of development, people studying it, like you train jiu-jitsu, right? So imagine people training 10 hours a day for 30, 40 years, being the greatest human in the world at it. And then something can come in and within three hours of experimentation be much stronger than them. And imagine that's gonna be in fucking everything.
Right? So... Like we have to be like children in how we learn. We're going to have to release the egoic relationship that we have to our level, to our knowledge, to everything. You know the great โ you know Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions?
Right? So... Like we have to be like children in how we learn. We're going to have to release the egoic relationship that we have to our level, to our knowledge, to everything. You know the great โ you know Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions?
Right? So... Like we have to be like children in how we learn. We're going to have to release the egoic relationship that we have to our level, to our knowledge, to everything. You know the great โ you know Thomas Kuhn's Structure of Scientific Revolutions?
Right. So like you think about what happens, what the human has to do to โ The internal resistance we have to overcome to embrace the new paradigm. So let's say you're a Newtonian physicist, right? You've been studying physics your whole life. You've got tenure. You've got 40, 50 years of knowledge built up. Everyone reveres you. And now there's this new thing.
Right. So like you think about what happens, what the human has to do to โ The internal resistance we have to overcome to embrace the new paradigm. So let's say you're a Newtonian physicist, right? You've been studying physics your whole life. You've got tenure. You've got 40, 50 years of knowledge built up. Everyone reveres you. And now there's this new thing.
Right. So like you think about what happens, what the human has to do to โ The internal resistance we have to overcome to embrace the new paradigm. So let's say you're a Newtonian physicist, right? You've been studying physics your whole life. You've got tenure. You've got 40, 50 years of knowledge built up. Everyone reveres you. And now there's this new thing.
Quantum mechanics enters the picture, right? Like to embrace this new thing is to admit to oneself and everybody else that your life's work is โ kind of, you have to release it. It's wrong. It's old, right? This new paradigm is, but we resist it individually and ego and societally, right? Because we will fight tooth and nail to maintain our conceptual schemes.
Quantum mechanics enters the picture, right? Like to embrace this new thing is to admit to oneself and everybody else that your life's work is โ kind of, you have to release it. It's wrong. It's old, right? This new paradigm is, but we resist it individually and ego and societally, right? Because we will fight tooth and nail to maintain our conceptual schemes.
Quantum mechanics enters the picture, right? Like to embrace this new thing is to admit to oneself and everybody else that your life's work is โ kind of, you have to release it. It's wrong. It's old, right? This new paradigm is, but we resist it individually and ego and societally, right? Because we will fight tooth and nail to maintain our conceptual schemes.
That's one of our strongest drivers of all humans, right? And so I think we're moving into a world now where you're going to have 37, 3800 ELO rated everything, kicking our ass at everything. So we have to become like children to go back to your question. in my opinion, and how we relate to learning, right? We can't, decision-making, right?
That's one of our strongest drivers of all humans, right? And so I think we're moving into a world now where you're going to have 37, 3800 ELO rated everything, kicking our ass at everything. So we have to become like children to go back to your question. in my opinion, and how we relate to learning, right? We can't, decision-making, right?
That's one of our strongest drivers of all humans, right? And so I think we're moving into a world now where you're going to have 37, 3800 ELO rated everything, kicking our ass at everything. So we have to become like children to go back to your question. in my opinion, and how we relate to learning, right? We can't, decision-making, right?
Like when we think about like social media, imagine a 3,800 ELO rated networked, imagine a million networked, 3,800 ELO rated super intelligences,
Like when we think about like social media, imagine a 3,800 ELO rated networked, imagine a million networked, 3,800 ELO rated super intelligences,
Like when we think about like social media, imagine a 3,800 ELO rated networked, imagine a million networked, 3,800 ELO rated super intelligences,
utilizing everything that they can gather about you on social media to manipulate to manipulate you to do whatever they it wants or whoever is controlling it wants they can have you do anything right but we have to like it's so hard for us to admit that we are the ant relative to the human right like we are the ant we have to have that humility and one of the things that um
utilizing everything that they can gather about you on social media to manipulate to manipulate you to do whatever they it wants or whoever is controlling it wants they can have you do anything right but we have to like it's so hard for us to admit that we are the ant relative to the human right like we are the ant we have to have that humility and one of the things that um