Will Bryk

You know, the history of humanity, the history of humanity is the world's been, you know, when we were hunters and gatherers, there's all sorts of information.

Then they started writing things down and like the amount of information the world has been like skyrocketing.

There's still so much information that's not recorded.

You know, you go from all the way from the first clay tablet, or really the first, like, paintings on caves would be arguably the first time things were written down.

And then, like, and then, you know, clay tablets and, you know, now newspapers.

And then, obviously, now we have, like, the digital age.

But there's so much information in your head, like, satellite images that are not just, like, in the world's soup of information that we could search over.

Yeah.

And like to fully understand the world, fully understand how crops, crop yields are going to, you know, affect, you know, some company or like what are people thinking about the world or how do we unite the world?

Like that requires like understanding the world at a deeper level.

So I think the bottleneck will be data in a lot of ways.

And then once you have, the problem is once you have all this data, now the bottleneck will be retrieval.

imagine it's just a crazy idea.

Like imagine, you know, we're, as we expand as a species, like we're thinking like very far, far in the future, like think about like, or in the solar system, like there's so many things going on in the world.

Uh, there's so much data being accumulated.

The retrieval over that is very expensive.

And so like, they're actually really fundamental, uh,

there are interesting fundamental questions here like right now the web is like let's call it a trillion pages that matter what happens if the web were a thousand times bigger like a quadrillion pages meaning like everyone started uploading data well then like any search algorithm that works over a trillion pages no longer like it might work over a quadrillion pages but it might be a thousand times more expensive and that's not practical because if anything we want search to get cheaper not more expensive so what kind of search algorithms to work over a quadrillion pages these are fascinating questions that like i don't know if i've ever heard anyone else talk about it

Yeah, well, first of all, the internship was magical.

So, like, for example, I saw the first landing on the barge.