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Reid Hoffman

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Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

my kind of esoteric interest like i have a philosophy degree so i said what would wittgenstein make of these modern ai things and it writes a little essay and you're like whoa that's pretty good yeah and you as a philosophy major found that critique value it was a good thing to interact with i should test it with automotive shicks that's the only thing i'm an expert you absolutely should this is what i try to prompt people into this prompt deliberate but

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

is to say, do it on something, not just on the new things you don't know how to do, like write a sonnet for my kid's birthday. Do that, too. That's very cool. Yeah, it's fun. Right? Fun to do. You should do the new superpowers. Make some hip-hop lyrics on this thing that I care about. Do the things that are completely out of your skill set, but also do it for things that matter to you.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

is to say, do it on something, not just on the new things you don't know how to do, like write a sonnet for my kid's birthday. Do that, too. That's very cool. Yeah, it's fun. Right? Fun to do. You should do the new superpowers. Make some hip-hop lyrics on this thing that I care about. Do the things that are completely out of your skill set, but also do it for things that matter to you.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

is to say, do it on something, not just on the new things you don't know how to do, like write a sonnet for my kid's birthday. Do that, too. That's very cool. Yeah, it's fun. Right? Fun to do. You should do the new superpowers. Make some hip-hop lyrics on this thing that I care about. Do the things that are completely out of your skill set, but also do it for things that matter to you.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

These new AI tools, like ChatGPD, they're great at taking a role that you ask them to take. So a simple role is, I'm going to make the following argument. Make the counter-argument. Oh, okay. Right? Just argue against me. We would love that, you and I. Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

These new AI tools, like ChatGPD, they're great at taking a role that you ask them to take. So a simple role is, I'm going to make the following argument. Make the counter-argument. Oh, okay. Right? Just argue against me. We would love that, you and I. Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

These new AI tools, like ChatGPD, they're great at taking a role that you ask them to take. So a simple role is, I'm going to make the following argument. Make the counter-argument. Oh, okay. Right? Just argue against me. We would love that, you and I. Yeah.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

We'd stop talking to each other. Here we go. Now we're on the back. That's the end of our friendship. Not at all. You get better.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

We'd stop talking to each other. Here we go. Now we're on the back. That's the end of our friendship. Not at all. You get better.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

We'd stop talking to each other. Here we go. Now we're on the back. That's the end of our friendship. Not at all. You get better.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

In doing that, you could then make your conversation even better. Because going to the edges, thinking of things and, oh, argument three, it's better for me to do that. I was doing super agency. What would the counterarguments be? And you can't put this infinite 2,000-page book with all the counterarguments. But you go, okay, let's address the really important ones.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

In doing that, you could then make your conversation even better. Because going to the edges, thinking of things and, oh, argument three, it's better for me to do that. I was doing super agency. What would the counterarguments be? And you can't put this infinite 2,000-page book with all the counterarguments. But you go, okay, let's address the really important ones.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

In doing that, you could then make your conversation even better. Because going to the edges, thinking of things and, oh, argument three, it's better for me to do that. I was doing super agency. What would the counterarguments be? And you can't put this infinite 2,000-page book with all the counterarguments. But you go, okay, let's address the really important ones.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Let's put the key ones in to make that work. That's the simplest role-taking. Another one is, what would a race car driver think about what I'm saying? What would a manufacturer of race cars think about what I'm doing? What would a future car be like here? Be the technological innovator. Be the race car driver. Be the industrialist.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Let's put the key ones in to make that work. That's the simplest role-taking. Another one is, what would a race car driver think about what I'm saying? What would a manufacturer of race cars think about what I'm doing? What would a future car be like here? Be the technological innovator. Be the race car driver. Be the industrialist.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Let's put the key ones in to make that work. That's the simplest role-taking. Another one is, what would a race car driver think about what I'm saying? What would a manufacturer of race cars think about what I'm doing? What would a future car be like here? Be the technological innovator. Be the race car driver. Be the industrialist.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Yeah. And be in dialogue with that now, too.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Yeah. And be in dialogue with that now, too.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

Yeah. And be in dialogue with that now, too.

Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Reid Hoffman Returns (on an optimistic AI)

If AI can make everyone tall, I'm fucked.