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Balaji Srinivasan

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“It's funny, you know, like I heard this thing, which is like Europe's like, well, look, the US and China are way ahead of us in AI, but we're going to be a leader in AI regulation.”
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“Okay, and the thing is, you know, if you've dealt with these bureaucracies, the stupidest possible interpretation, I mean, think about if you think, oh, no, no, that wouldn't make any sense. It wouldn't do that. The entire web has been uglified by the stupid cookie thing that does absolutely nothing, right? The actual way to protect privacy is with user local data, meaning decentralized systems, right? Where the private keys are local.”
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“But click the tweet that I sent you just before this one, right? So I was like, you know, in Woke America, they're abolishing accelerated math because math is quote white supremacist. Not to be outdone. Europe seeks to regulate AI by regulating logic itself. You can't reason without a license, right? Article 3, for purposes of this regulation, the following definition apply. AI system is software that's developed with one or more of the techniques and approaches listed in Annex 1. And you know what's in Annex 1? In Annex 1, logic and knowledge-based approaches. Step away from the if statement.”
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“And so this was a really good decent first cut at a digital Bill of Rights. And he talks about the right to encrypt, the right to compute, the right to repair, the right to portability, right? So encrypt is perhaps obvious. E-commerce and everything, compute like your device, it's not like you can't just have somebody intercepted or shut down your floating points. That might sound stupid, but in the EU, they're trying to regulate AI. And by doing that, they have some regulation that says like logic is itself regulated. Did you see this?”
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“Its own axis, it's moving on its own axis, and new states and new countries should be able to exist that do not have to define themselves as anti-American to do so. They're just post-American friendly to, but different from. That's totally possible to do. And we've got examples of that, right? And so when I talk about this, I'm talking about is really in many ways US and Western ideals, but manifested in just a different form, right? And also, crucially, integrative of global ideals. These are, in a sense, are global human rights, they're global values, which is freedom of speech, private property, protection from search and seizure. And actually, so that's all the Bill of Rights type stuff. And I saw something that I thought was really good recently that's a good first cut at something that I might want to include. I credit him, of course, in V2 of the book, a digital Bill of Rights.”
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“And then you can have a better kind of arm's length relationship. And so that's what post British means. It is not anti-British, not at all. In fact, you can respect it while also being happy that you've got your own sovereignty, right? And happy that Britain is doing its own thing. I'm glad they're doing well, right? Okay. And they're actually doing some special economic zone stuff now. And in the same way, if you think of it as not being pro-American or anti-American, because that's a with us or against us formulation of George Bush, you know, like rather than just everything must be scored as pro-American or anti-American, you can think of post-American, that not everything has to be scored on that axis. Like, you know, there are certain things around the world which should be able to exist on their own and you should be able to move along your own axis. Perhaps obvious example, like is longevity pro-American or anti-American? No, it's like it's all.”
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“They're not like burning the British flag in effigy or anything. Essentially, the point is, each of these societies is kind of moving along their own axis. They're not defining every action in terms of where they're pro-British or anti-British, right? Like once you have kind of a healthy distance, people can respect all the accomplishments of the UK while also being happy that you're no longer run by them.”
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“By the way, that doesn't mean I'm that. When I say this kind of stuff, people would be like, oh my God, you hate America so much. And that's not at all what I'm saying. It's like, first, take Britain, okay? Would you think of the US or Israel or India or Singapore as being anti-British? Not today. They're post-British, right? In fact, they're quite respectful to, I mean, look at the Queen and so on. People respect the UK and so on. Everyone's coming there to pay their respects.”
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“That's right. And it gives a global equality of opportunity. It's even more capitalist than America is. It's even more democratic than America is. Just as America is more capitalist and democratic than the UK.”
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“Will soon be said mostly by non Americans. Now, what does that mean? That means that just like the US was a branch of the UK and it started with English, and certainly there's lots of antecedents you can trace back to England. But nowadays, most Americans are not English in ancestry. There's Germans and Italians, Jewish people, African Americans, you know, everybody, right? In the same way the internet is much more representative of the world than the USA is.”
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“But they didn't know the Yankees or hot dogs or all the offline stuff of America. They didn't know physical America. They knew the digital conversation, the Red Conversation, and what became the Twitter conversation. For example, I just saw this YouTube video where there's an Indian founder and he just said just casually like, oh, I slid into his DMs like this, right? It was kind of a joke. But he said in an Indian accent, everybody laughed. Everybody knew what he meant. And you're like, wait, that is a piece of what people think of as American internet slang that's actually internet slang.”
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“Okay, they speak with an accent, but they don't type with an accent. And all the way back in 2013, when I taught this Coursera course, I was like, who are these folks? I had hundreds of thousands of people from around the world sign up. It's a very popular course even then. And hundreds of thousands of people signed up. It's like, who are these folks? And there were like Polish guys and this lady from Brazil. And they knew Scumbag Steve and good guy Greg.”
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“And there's this guy a while back who had this meme called The One Kilo Year American Empire that everything's American and so on. And I think fundamental category era is he considers the internet to be American. But you know why that's not the case? Because, and it'll be very obviously so, I think, in five or ten years. Why? Because the majority of English speakers online by about 2030 are going to be India. They just got 5G LTE super cheap internet recently, the last few years. It's like one of the biggest stories in the world that's not really being told that much. And they've been lurking. And here's the thing, and this took me a long time to kind of, you know, figure out, but to communicate, I actually have realized this in 2013. These folks don't type with an accent.”
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“But that was in part inspired by the American. There are many, many movements that came back to the old world that started here. And the same way, you know, I don't call it the mainstream media anymore. You know, I call it the downstream media because it's downstream of the internet.”
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“Yes, I think there is a new birth of global freedom and that in the fullness time people will look at the internet as being to the Americas with the Americas were to Europe. A new world in the sense of this cloud continent has just come down and people are, you know, if you spend 50% of your waking hours looking at a screen, 20%, you're spending all this time commuting up to the cloud in the morning and coming back down. You're doing these day trips. And it's got a different geography and all these people are near each other that were far in the physical world and vice versa, right? And so this will, because it's this new domain, it gives rise to virtual worlds that eventually become physical in the same way that most people don't know that well, but the Americas really shaped the old world. Many concepts like the ultra-capitalism and ultra-democracy of the new world, the French Revolution was in part. I mean, that was a bad version.”
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“Engineering, and you have the content creation and you build your own distribution, you own your own thing, you can become essentially a new kind of political leader where you just build a large enough online community that can crowdfund territory and you build your vision of the good.”
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“The V1 of this is like folks like Francis Suarez or Naibke Kelly of El Salvador, but Suarez is a great example where, well, not a full sovereign or anything like that, he has many ways and many of his skills of a tech CEO where he just put up a call on Twitter and help Bill Miami recruited all these people from all over and wasn't the two-party system but the end city system. He just helped build the city by bringing people in and when I say Suarez is a V1, you know, I love France Suarez. I love what they're doing. The next iteration of that is to actually build the community itself rather than just kind of taking an existing Miami. You're building something that is potentially the scale of Miami. But as a digital community, and how many people is that? Well, like the Miami population is actually not that large. It's like 400 something thousand people. You could build a digital community like that. So if you have the”
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“As I mentioned, only 2% of the world can become President of the United States about the number of Americans who are native born and over 35 and so on and so forth. But 100% of the world can become president of their own network state. What that means is, and this kind of related to those two points, right? If you're an individual and you're good at engineering and you're good at content creation, like somebody like Jack Dorsey, for example, or Mark Anderson, actually, a lot of the founders are actually quite good at both nowadays. He looked at Bezos. He's actually funny on Twitter when he allows himself to be. You don't become a leader of that caliber without having some of both, right? If you've got some of both now, no matter where you are, what your ethnicity is, what your nationality is, whether you can get a US visa, you can become president of a network state. And what this is, it's a new path to political power that does not require going through either the U.S. or the Chinese establishment. You don't have to wait till you're 75. You don't have to become a gerontocrat or spout the party line and so on.”
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“Went through with decentralized search and social and messaging and operating systems and even the crypto phone. And then finally, you need alternatives to US political institutions and more generally and Chinese political institutions. And what are those? That's where the network state comes in. And the fundamental concept is if”
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“To media with decentralized social media, decentralized AI, you can melt Hollywood with this, melt the RIA, melt the MPAA. I mean, there's some good people there, but everybody should have their own movies. People should be able to tell their own stories and not just wait for it to be cast through Hollywood, and Hollywood's just making remakes anyway, okay? So you can tell original stories and you can do so online, and you can do so by hitting a key, and the production values will be there now that the AI content creation tools are out there. I mentioned disrupting or replacing or building alternatives to the Fed, to Wall Street, to academia, to media. I mentioned to Wikipedia, right? There's things like Golden. There's things like there's a bunch of Web3-ish Wikipedia competitors that are combining both AI and crypto for property rights. You'll also need alternatives to all the major tech companies. That was the list that I”
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“Contrapositive, right? And now, what does that mean practically? Okay. So in many ways, the program that I'm laying out is to build alternatives, peaceful alternatives to all legacy institutions, to obviously to the Fed, right, with Bitcoin, to Wall Street, with DeFi and with Ethereum and so on.”
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“Just a career academic or mathematician in another life, you know, maybe statistician, something like that, electrical engineer, et cetera. But the importance of creating your own content and telling your own stories, if you don't tell your own story, the story will be told for you. The sort of flip of Winner's Right History is if you do not write history, you will not be the winner. You must write a history. It's kind of a funny way of putting it, right?”
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“Maximizes the clicks of the distorting kind of thing, it's just not going to be in one's own interest. You don't have to even agree with everything I'm saying or even all of it to just be like, well, look, I'd rather speak for myself. I'd rather go direct if I could, speak unmediated in my own words, right? Because the choice for word is actually very important, right? So that's the second big thing. You need to, and this is the thing that took me a long time to understand, okay, because I always got the importance of math and science. And in fact, I would have been.”
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“Apple didn't do deals with BlackBerry. Amazon didn't collaborate or give free content to Barnes& Noble. Netflix was not going and socializing with employees of Blockbuster. These employees have established a media corporation are your competitors. They are out for clicks. They are out for money. They will if they literally choke out the Ukrainians before making themselves into champions of the Ukrainian cause, they'll basically do anything. And so when she realized that, you're like, okay, I need to build my own voice. If you're resilient, you're Nigerian, you're in the Midwest or the Middle East, right? If you're, you know, Japanese, whatever you are, you need to build your own voice because outsourcing that voice to somebody else and having it put through the distorting filter, which”
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“Move, but in the long arc, I think we're going to have more speech. I think the counter decentralization may succeed in China, but I don't think it's going to succeed outside it because you're trying to retrofit speech and thought controls onto an ostensibly free society. Now that Czech got cash, people actually have a voice. It's not going to be taken away from them very easily. So how does this relate to my advice to young kids? Once you have that context, once you realize, hey, look.”
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“In a real way, the entire things that were promised to people, freedom of speech, free markets, like a beggar's democracy, it's like, oh yeah, you can have freedom of speech, but not freedom of reach because you're just talking to yourself in your living room in Buffalo, New York, right? Maybe you can gather some friends around. You didn't have the licenses to get a TV broadcast license, radio license. You know, the resources to buy a newspaper. You didn't have practical reach or distribution. What happened was all these people in the US and around the world suddenly got voices and they were suddenly saying things that the establishment didn't want them to say. And so that's what this counter decentralization has meant, both in the US and in China, this crackdown, but it's as if like a stock went up like 100x and then dropped like 30. All the deplatforming stuff, yes, it's bad. It's a rear.”
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“They can literally put two dozen people following somebody around for a year. And that's not considered stalking, right? That's not considered spamming. They are allowed to do this and make money doing this. Whereas if you so much as criticize them, oh my God, it's an attack on the free press, blah, blah, right. But you are the free press and I'm the free press. Like we're the free press. Again, it goes back to the decentralized, you know, that free speech is not like some media corporations thing. It's everybody's right. And what actually happened with social media, what they're against is not that it is an attack on democracy, it's that it's the ultimate democracy because people have a voice now that didn't used to have a voice. It's saying freedom of the press belongs to those who own one, right? That old one, right? Or never, never argue with a man who buys zinc by the barrel, right?”
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“Ta-da, total mass drop, right? That's just obvious, right? And now once you realize this and every influencer who's coming up, every creator realizes, okay, well, that means I have to think about these media corporations as competitors. They are competitors. They're competitors for advertisers and influence. They will try basically what the media corporations did partially successfully during the 2010s is they sort of had this reign of terror over many influencers where they'd give them positive coverage if they supported sort of the party line and negative coverage if they didn't. But now the soft power has just dropped off a cliff, right? And many kinds of tactics that establishment journalists do. One way of thinking of them is like as a for-profit stasi. Why? Because they may stalk you, dox you.”
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“$99 a year or whatever it is for the truth. Wow, that's actually even amazing, right? So the corporate truth. So when you stack all that up, right Basically, legacy media has delegitimized themselves, right? Every day that those quote investigative journalists don't investigate Salzberger shows that they are so courageous as to investigate your boss, but not their own.”
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“Say we're literally getting the profits from slavery to help bootstrap what was the times or went into it. They actually did this article on the compound interest of slaveholders in Haiti and how much they owed people. If you apply that to how much money they made off of slaves, I mean, can anyone name one of Salzburger's slaves? Like, can we humanize that, put a face on that, show exactly? So giant Orwellian billboards, right, which say the truth is essential here, it looks like this.”
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“And then here's Jeet here on this. He kept the paper straight. As it happens, Rosenthal was a notorious homophobe. He made it a specific policy of the paper not to use the term gay. He denied a plumb job to gay man for being gay. He minimized AIDS crisis. So the thing about this is this is not like a one-off thing, okay? The New York Times literally won a pulzer for choking out the Ukrainians for helping starve 5 million Ukrainians to death. And now has reinvented themselves as like a cheerleader to stand with Ukraine, right? They were four Aprilenthal's homophobia before they were against it, right? They were like, if you saw the link I just pasted in, okay, during BLM, it's credibly reported that, and I haven't seen this refuted, the family that owns the New York Times were slaveholders. Somehow that stayed out of 1619 and BLM coverage, right?”
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“Yeah, history of basically keeping gay reporters out. So essentially, the way to think about it is New York Post reported that just to talk about this for a second, because it's so insane, all right? New York Post reported, and I've got some of this in the book, okay, but.”
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“Well, actually, you know, it's funny you say that because there's this guy A. M. Rosenthal, on his gravestone was, quote, he kept the paper straight, right? And actually, he essentially went and this is a managing editor of the New York Times for almost from 69 to 77 executive editor from 77 to 86. And it was a history.”
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“I mean, again, I'm not the kind of person who thinks white is an insult, but these guys are, and they are the wokest whites on the planet, right? It's like ridiculous, right?”
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“Literally Rich white man who makes millions of dollars a year and it makes like 50x the salary of other NYT journalists and lives in a mansion and so on while denouncing this is a born rich guy who denounces all the built rich guys at a company which is far whiter than the tech companies he's been denouncing okay And again, there's a website called Tech Journalism is less diverse than tech.com, which actually shows the numbers on this, right? Here I can look at these numbers, right? So why did I say this? Well, centralized US media has lost a ton of clout. Engagement is down. You've seen crypto prices down, like stock prices have crashed. That's very obvious and quantifiable. Less visible is that media engagement has crashed, right?”
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“Employees are just dogs on a leash, right? They're hitmen for old money, assassins for the establishment. They're never going to investigate him. There's this thing right now, like some strike or possible strike that's going at the New York Times. Obviously, the most obvious rich corporate zillionaire, the epitome of white privilege is, you know, and again, I'm not the kind of person who thinks white is an insult, right? But the guy who inherited the company from his father's father's father's father In NFL, right? He's supposed to have the Rooney rule where he's supposed to interview diverse candidates for the top job. You know the other competitors for the top job of the publisher of the New York Times? Two cousins of Salzburger. So three Cis straight white males in 2017 who competed for this top job and everybody in media was like silent about this coronation. They had this coronation article in the Times about this, right? So you have this meritless nepotist, right?”
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“And now post 2020, I think it's now centralized tech and media versus decentralized tech and media. And centralized tech and media is NYT and Google, which have all become woke, the establishment companies. But decentralized tech media is like substack. lots of defectors from the US establishment, from the NYT have gone to Substack. But also all the founders and funders are much more vocal on Twitter, whether it's Mark Anderson, Jack Dorsey, Jeff Bezos, Zuckerberg. Zuck is just cutting out the establishment and just going direct to posting himself or posting the Jiu-Jitsu thing, which he recently did, or going and talking to Rogan, right? And so you now have this sort of Adam Smash and like kind of reconstitution. Why is that important? Well, look, once you realize US media companies are companies and their employees, Salzburg”
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“Million person following or something online, right? Because a US media company is simply not economically or socially aligned with your business. I mean, the big thing that I think and media actually, it's funny, there's this collision and sometimes there's an admin smashing event and there's like a repositioning, right? And media attack tech really hard in the 2010s, as well as many other things.”
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“And that just completely changed everything, just like the introduction of property rights in China changed everything. It might take some lag for that to happen, but you can lend against that, borrow against that. You own the digital property, right? And you can do NFTs, you can do investments, you can do all this other stuff, right? So in many ways, I think anybody who's listening, who's like, you know, I want to build a billion dollar company, I'm like, build a billion dollar company, yes, also build a million person media operation.”
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“Right. So CSS is that side. Okay. And then you can go in any domain, any company, kickbutt, add value. Right. Okay. So now the other side is creator, right? Becoming a creator. First, online social media is about to become far, far, far more lucrative and monetizable. People are not updated. They kind of think this is like over or something like that or it's old or whatever. With crypto, once you have property rights on social media, Now it's not what Google just allows you to have, but it's what you own, right? You actually have genuine property rights.”
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“And that shows what one person can do, like probably Steve Jobs with Apple, given how the company was dying before he got there and he built it into the most valuable or put on the directory to become the most valuable company in the world. It shows that there is, quote, great man, right? Maybe more than just being five or ten years ahead, like truly shaping where history goes, right? But on their hand, of course, that person, Steve Jobs himself, wrote that email that precisely was first thing saying that he doesn't grow his own food and he doesn't even think. Back. So, see us in stats, that's what you want to learn. I think physics is also good to know because you go one level deeper. And of course, all these devices, you're not going to be able to build LIDAR or things like that without understanding physics.”
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“Or maybe even more than that. This is the great man theory of history versus the determinist waves of history are pushing things along. The way I reconcile those is the tech tree model of history. You know, like civilization, you're playing game civ Yeah. So, like civilization, you've got the tech tree, and you can go and be like, okay, I'm going to get spearmen or I'm going to do granaries and pottery, right? And so you can think of it as something where here's everything that humanity has right now. And then Satoshi can push on this dimension of the tech tree. So he's a great man because there wasn't a Leibniz to Satoshi's Newton. There wasn't contemporaneous. Like, you know, another person that was doing what Sachi was doing is truly Sui Genaris.”
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“Like, you know, for example, do you know at least a while back, Facebook.com was literally, it's just a single C compiled binary. It's not C++. It was like hip-hop. They had a PHP compiler where they had just one giant binary. I may be getting this wrong, but that's what I recall, right?”
2022-10-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You can probably push back, right? But here's what I was going to say. I was going to say you couldn't really or Amazon or Apple without somebody at the company who understood computer architecture and, you know, Layout of memory and theory of compilers”
2022-10-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I put all that as a package. That's the year in practice, right? I mean, look, it's okay to use libraries once you know what's going on under the hood, right? That's fine, but you need to be able to kind of write out the whole thing yourself.”
2022-10-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, computer sciences theory, software engineering is practice, right? Yeah. You could argue Probability and stats is theory, and then data science is practice.”
2022-10-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so you're going to collect the data and analyze it, right? And so that means if you have that base of CS and stats where you're really strong and you understand the theory as well as the practice, right? And you need both, okay? Because you need to understand obviously basic stuff like big O notation and whatnot. And you need to understand all your probability distributions. A good exercise, by the way, is to go from the Bernoulli trials to everything else. Because you can go Bernoulli trials to the binomial distribution to the Gaussian. You can also go from Bernoulli trials to the geometric distribution and so on. You can drive everything from this, right?”
2022-10-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In a constructed digital world, which is more interesting in some sense in the offline world, because we look at it more, it changes faster, right? And where the physics are set by programmers. And what that means is physics itself is obviously very important for the natural world. Computer science and stats are for the artificial world, right? And why is that? Because every domain has algorithms and data structures. Whether it's aviation, okay, you go to American Airlines, right? They're going to have planes and seats and tickets and so on. So it's data structures, and you're going to have algorithms and functions that connect them. You're going to have tables that those data are into. If it's Walmart, you're going to have SKUs and you're going to have shelves and you're going to have data structures and you have algorithms to connect them. So every single area, you have algorithms and data structures, which is computer science and”
2022-10-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Large percentage of the time, right? Probably more than for many people, it's more than 50% of their waking hours. If you include laptop, you include cell phone, tablet, your watch, maybe a monitor of some kind, right? All those together is probably, it's a lot, which means, and then that's going to only increase with AR glasses. Which means most of the rest of your life will be spent in a sense in the matrix.”
2022-10-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. So, first, what skill do you learn as a young kid? So let me just give what the ideal full stack thing is. And then you have to say, okay, I'm good quantitatively, I'm good verbally, I'm good this, I'm good that, right? So the ideal is you are full stack engineer and full stack influencer or full stack engineer, full stack creator. So that's both Wrightbrain and Left Brain. All right. What does that mean with engineering? That means you master computer science and statistics. And of course, it's also good to know physics and continuous math and so on. That's actually quite valuable to know. And you might need to use a lot of that continuous math with AI nowadays, right? Because a lot of that is actually helpful, right? Great to scent and whatnot. But computer science and stats are to this century what physics was to the last. Why? Because, for example, what percentage of your time do you spend looking at a screen of some kind?”
2022-10-20 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source