What a stark contrast between his first point (a great point, well articulated) and his second* (the kind of idiotic thing that you’d expect to hear the opinionated drunk say in the pub because of a mediocre science-fiction novel they had read).
It shows how hard it is for the layman to really weigh the consequences of technology and evaluate which opinions are worth their consideration and which are just the disposable ramblings of a moron.
* he introduced his second point by saying “well it’s Peter Thiel’s point,” so not very surprising that it requires you to have a lobotomy to understand it.
Hah, yeah, I also noticed the contrast. If I were cutting a video about this, I’d definitely use the first bit and not the second. I think there’s a kernel of truth in AI accelerating science. But the the weird hierarchy with Physics as the top is just the common misunderstanding about the nature of emergent properties mixed with some old-fashioned elitism. And we’re way closer to the AI surveillance state than we are to automated AI research laboratories.
What a stark contrast between his first point (a great point, well articulated) and his second* (the kind of idiotic thing that you’d expect to hear the opinionated drunk say in the pub because of a mediocre science-fiction novel they had read).
It shows how hard it is for the layman to really weigh the consequences of technology and evaluate which opinions are worth their consideration and which are just the disposable ramblings of a moron.
* he introduced his second point by saying “well it’s Peter Thiel’s point,” so not very surprising that it requires you to have a lobotomy to understand it.
Hah, yeah, I also noticed the contrast. If I were cutting a video about this, I’d definitely use the first bit and not the second. I think there’s a kernel of truth in AI accelerating science. But the the weird hierarchy with Physics as the top is just the common misunderstanding about the nature of emergent properties mixed with some old-fashioned elitism. And we’re way closer to the AI surveillance state than we are to automated AI research laboratories.