Trenton Bricken

Yes.

MaybeRabidMonkey asks, imagine you have a 17-year-old brother slash nephew just starting college.

What would you recommend he study given your AGI timelines?

I'm in favor of the learn fundamentals, gain useful mental models.

But it feels like everything should be done in an AI native way or like top down instead of your bottom up learning.

So first of all, learn things more efficiently by using the AI models.

and then just know where their capabilities are and aren't.

And I would be worried and skeptical about any subject which prioritizes rote memorization of lots of facts or information instead of ways of thinking.

But if you're always using the AI tools to help you, then you'll naturally just have a good sense for the things that it is and isn't good at.

Get the scratch pad.

Yeah.

I do want to press on that a bit more because your immediate answer to the 17-year-old was to start a podcast.

Yeah.

So like what niches are there?

What sort of things would you be excited to see in like new blogs, podcasts?

Interesting.

The world is small.

Yeah.

What would you say is your first big success?

I'm trying to think back to when I first found your podcast.