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Grant Sanderson

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“None of us know how to make videos when we start. The first stuff I made was terrible in a number of respects. Like, Look at the earliest videos on any YouTube channel, except for Captain Disillusion. And they're all like terrible versions of whatever they are now”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, even if it's things that you might think are niche, I bet you'll be surprised by how many people actually engage with it really deeply.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They like get out of here. Like, no one cares about that. No one's interested in anything anywhere near that. But then you have Michael's quirky personality around it and just people that are actually hungry for that kind of depth. You don't need the approval of some higher network. You can just do it and let the people speak for themselves. So I think if your father was to make something on plasma physics, or if we were to have underactualized robotics. Underactualized. Underactuated. Yes, not under actualized Plenty actualized, underactuated robotics.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, there's people interested in this stuff. I mean, One of the greatest channels, like Matt, it's not even a math channel, but the channel with greatest math content is VSAS. I interviewed if imagine you were to propose making a video that explains the Banak Tarski paradox substantively, right? Not shying around it, maybe not describing things in terms of like the group theoretic terminology that you'd usually see in a paper, but the actual results that went into this idea of like breaking apart a sphere, proposing that to a network TV station saying, yeah, I'm going to do this in-depth talk of the Banakhtarsky paradox. I'm pretty sure it's going to reach 20 million people.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And those lectures that Tell early students what to be interested in. At the moment, I think students are disproportionately interested in the things that are well represented on YouTube. So to any educator out there, if you're wondering, hey, I want more grad students in my department, what's the best way to recruit grad students? It's like make the best video you can and then wait eight years and then you're going to have a pile of like excellent grad students for that department.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The internet would be replete. And it's already replete with great explanations, but it would be even more so with all the niche great explanations and anything you want to learn.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just imagine if every one of those excellent teachers like your father or like Russ, even if they just chose one topic this year. They're like, I'm going to make the best video that I can on this topic. If every one of the great teachers did that,”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, well, what I think teachers like Russ should do is choose the small handful of topics that they're going to do just really well. They want to create the best short explanation of it in the world that will be one of those handfuls in a world where you have commoditized explanation, right? Most of the lectures should be done just normally. Still put thought and planning into it. I'm sure he's a wonderful teacher and knows all about that. But maybe choose those small handful of topics do What's beneficial for me sometimes is if I do sample lessons with people on that topic to get some sense of how other people think about it let that inform how you want to edit it or script it or whatever format you want to do some people are comfortable just explaining it and editing later I'm more comfortable like writing it out and thinking in that setting”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not at all. I think I do think the content might be much less sharp and tight than if it were something, even that I just recorded like that and then edited later. But I do like something that I do to be out there to show like, hey, this is what it's like raw. This is what it's like when I make mistakes. This is like the pace of thinking. I like the live interaction of it. I think that made it better. I probably would do it on a different channel, I think, if I did series like that in the future just because it's a different style. It's probably a different target audience and kind of keep clean what three blue and brown is about versus the benefits of live lectures.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There were two GH5 cameras, one that was mounted overhead over a piece of paper. You could also use like an iPad or a Wacom tablet to do your writing electronically, but I just wanted the paper feel. On the face, there's two, again, I don't know, I'm like just not actually the one to ask this because I like animate stuff usually, but each of them has a compressor object that makes it such that the camera output goes into the computer USB but gets compressed before it does that.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, listen to all the early videos on my channel, and clearly I'm terrible at this. For some reason, I just couldn't get audio for a while. I think it's weird when you hear your own voice. So you hear it, you're like, this sounds weird. And it's hard to notice. Does it sound weird because you're not used to your own voice or there like actual audio artifacts at play? So,”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My narration, I use a USB mic for the streams I used a lapel mic. The narration, it's a blue yeti. I'm forgetting actually the name of the lapel mic, but it was probably like a road of some kind.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Publish their explanations and have it in a publicized forum. So if during a pandemic you can have people Automatically creating online content because it has to be online, but getting in the habit of doing it in a way that doesn't just feel like a Zoom call that happened to be recorded, but it actually feels like a piece that was always going to be publicized to more people than just your students. That can be really powerful”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Two reasons. One, you might get more engagement from the students. Biggest reason I think one of the best things that can come out of this pandemic education wise is if we turn a bunch of teachers into content creators and if we take lessons that are usually done in these one-off settings and start to get in the habit of sometimes I'll use the phrase commoditizing explanation where what you want is whatever a thing a student wants to learn it just seems inefficient to me that that lesson is taught millions of times over in parallel across many different classrooms in the world like year to year. You've got a given algebra one lesson that's just taught like literally millions of times by different people. What should happen is that there's the small handful of explanations online that exist so that when someone needs that explanation they can go to it, that the time in classroom is spent on all of the parts of teaching and education that aren't explanation, which is most of it. And the way to get there is to basically have more people who are already explaining.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The thing is, I knew nothing about any of that stuff before I started. I had a friend who knew a fair bit. And so he kind of helped show me the roops. One of the thing that I realized is that you could, as a teacher, like it doesn't take that much to make things look and feel pretty professional. Like one component of it is as soon as you hook things up with the broadcasting software rather than just doing like screen sharing, you can set up different scenes and then you can have keyboard shortcuts to transition between those scenes. So you don't need a production studio with a director calling like, go to camera three, go to camera two, like onto the screen capture. Instead, you can have control of that. And it took a little bit of practice. And I would mess it up now and then. But I think I had a decently smooth such that, you know, I'm talking to the camera and then we're doing something on the paper, then we're doing like playing with a Desmos graph or something. And something that I think in the past would have required a production team you can actually do as a solo operation. And in particular, as a teacher. And I think it's worth it to try to do that because”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think for, you know, you ask about if this can be relevant to educators, like 100%, online teaching is basically a form of live streaming now. And usually it happens through Zoom. I think if teachers view what they're doing as a kind of performance and a kind of live stream performance, that would probably be pretty healthy because Zoom can be kind of awkward. And I brought up this little blog post actually just on like just what our setup looked like if you want to adopt it yourself and how to integrate like the broadcasting software OBS with Zoom or things like that.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For me, it was very different, as different as you can get. I'm on camera, which I'm usually not. I'm doing it live, which is nerve-wracking. It was a slightly different level of topics, although realistically I'm just talking about things I'm interested in no matter what. I think the reason I did that was this thought that a ton of people are looking to learn remotely, which I usually put out content is too slow to be actively helpful. Let me just do some bi-weekly lectures that if you're looking for a place to point your students, if you're a student looking for a place to be edified about math, just tune in at these times. And in that sense, I think it was a success for those who followed with it. It was a really rewarding experience for me to see how people engaged with it. Part of the fun of the live interaction was to actually, like, I do these live quizzes and see how people would answer and try to shape the lesson based on that or see what questions people were asking in the audience. I would love to, if I did more things like that in the future, kind of tighten that feedback loop even more.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In general, yeah. Choose just a handful of things to engage with and engage with it very well in a way that you feel proud of. And don't worry about the rest. Honestly, I think the best social media platform is texting. That's my favorite. That's my go to social media platform.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Engage with a handful of people deeply rather than as many people as you can in a shallow way. I think that's a good lesson for social media usage.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But exactly right. The point I was going to make, though, is like, I know I'm bad about following up on stuff. Is an actual problem. It's born of the fact that I have a sense of what will be like good content when it won't be. But this can actually be incredibly disheartening because a ton of comments that I see are people who are like frustrated usually in a benevolent way that I haven't followed through on X and X, which I get. And I should do that. But what's comforting thought for me is that when there's a topic I haven't promised, but I am working on and I'm excited about, it's like the people who would really like this don't know that it's coming and don't know to like come.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like a live performance at this one thing. I think next circumstance that I'm like doing another recorded live performance that fits having that in a better recording context maybe I'll make it nice and public.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'll share it with you a private link. But so there's an example of what I had in mind. I did a version of it. And I'm like, I think there's a better version of this that might exist one day”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very important to learn. It also translates to realizing that you're not as important as you might think you are because all of the people commenting are the ones who love you the most and are really asking you to like create certain things or like mad that you didn't create like a past thing. I have such a problem. I have a very real problem with making promises about a type of content that I'll make. And then either not following up on it soon or just never following up on it.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But for that golden kind I think a lot of YouTuber friends I have at least have gone through phases of anxiety about the nature of comments that stem from basically just this, that it's like people who aren't necessarily representative of who they were going for misinterpreted what they were trying to say or whatever have you or we're focusing on things like personal appearances as opposed to like substance And they come away thinking like, oh, that's what everyone thinks, right? That's what everyone's response to this video was. But a lot of the people who had the reaction you wanted them to have, like they probably didn't write it down.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Most important lesson for any content creator to learn is that the commenting public is not representative of the actual public. And this is easy to see. Ask yourself, how often do you write comments on YouTube videos? Most people will realize, I never do it. Some people realize they do, but the people who realize they never do it should understand that that's a sign the kind of people who are like you aren't the ones leaving comments. And I think this is important in a number of respects. In my case, I think I would think my content was better than it was if I just read comments because people are super nice. The thing is, the people who are bored by it are put off by it in some way, are frustrated by it. Usually they just go away. They're certainly not going to watch the whole video, much less leave a comment on it. So there's a huge underrepresentation of like negative feedback, like well-intentioned negative feedback, because very few people actively do that. Like watch the whole thing that they dislike, figure out what they disliked, articulate what they dislike. There's plenty of negative feedback that's not well.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“She thought she was like doing me this favor of providing me this global analytic that otherwise wouldn't be visible. It's just like this addiction where you have some number you want to follow and like. Yeah, it's funny that your dad had this. I think Other people have it.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can I tell you a funny story in that effect of like parental use of YouTube? Early on in the channel, my mom would like text me. She's like, the channel has had 990,000 views. The channel has had 991,000 views. I'm like, oh, that's cute. She's going to the little part on the about page where you see the total number of channel views. No, she didn't know about that. She had been going every day through all the videos and then adding them up.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A lot of people can resonate with that. I think it's a legitimate addiction. It's like it's a dopamine addiction. And I don't know if it's a problem because as long as it's a kind of socializing, like if you're actually engaging with friends and engaging with other people's ideas, I think it can be really useful.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're always going to write it as the best version of yourself. You're not going to explain the phenomenon of like wanting to get out of the bed, but not really wanting to get out of the bed and all of that.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think those schedules are much more fun to write. It's very fun to write a schedule and make a blog post about the perfect productive day that might work for one person, but I don't know how much people get out of reading them or trying to adopt someone else's style.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There's systematic people who get really on top of, you know, they checklist of what they're going to do in the day and they count their hours. And I am not a systematic person in that way. Which is probably a problem. I very likely would get more done if I was systematic in that way, but that doesn't happen. You talk to me later in life and maybe I will have changed my ways and give you a very different answer.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the thing that makes it such that a topic gets put on the list of videos. Oh, that's an issue. There is an apostle. You shouldn't start the project unless there's one of those.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wake up early. I guess I exercise. And then I turn the internet off. If we're writing, yeah, that's what's required, is having the internet off. And then maybe you keep notes on the things that you want to Google when you're allowed to have the internet again. I'm not great about doing that, but when I do, that makes it happen. And then when I hit writers block, the solution to writer's block is to read. Doesn't even have to be related. Just read something different just for like 15 minutes, half an hour, and then go back to writing. That when it's a nice cycle, I think, can work very well.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The research side, by the way, I think a problematic way to do it is to say I'm starting this project and therefore I'm starting the research. Instead it should be that you're like ambiently learning a ton of things just in the background and then once you feel like you have the understanding for one, you put it on the list of things that there can be a video for. Otherwise either you're going to end up roadblocked forever or you're just not going to like have a good way of talking about it. But still some of the days it's like the thing to do is learn new things”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of that's hard to answer because the mode of work I do changes a lot from day to day. Like some days I'm writing. The thing I have to do is write a script. Some days I'm animating. The thing I have to do is animate. Sometimes I'm like working on the animation library. The thing I have to do is like a little, I'm not a software engineer, but something in the direction of software engineering. Some days it's like a variant of research. It's like learn this topic well and try to learn it differently. So those is like four very different modes of what it some days is like get through the email backlog of people I've been the tasks I've been putting off.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I actually much prefer work to be a solitary affair for me. That's like a personality quirk. I would like it to be in an environment with others and like collaborative in the sense of ideas exchanged. But those phenomena you're describing when you say this is too long, this is too short, this visualization sucks. It's way easier to say that to yourself than it is to say to a collaborator. And I know that's just a thing that I'm not good at. In that way, it's very easy to just throw away a script because the script isn't working. It's hard to tell someone else they should do the same.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Brilliant. That's brilliant. I'm like, that's the way to do it. You just schedule those things. Schedule the serendipitous interaction.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I saw, I don't know why I saw this, but on my brother's work calendar, he had a scheduled slot with someone that he scheduled a meeting. And the title of the whole meeting was No specific agenda. I just missed the happens hands serendipitous conversations that we used to have, which the pandemic and remote work has so cruelly taken away from us.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Conversations you over here, it's other projects you're pulled into. It's like puzzles that colleagues are sharing, like all of that. I have some extent of it just because I just try to stay well connected in communities of people who think in similar ways. But it's not in the day-to-day in the same way, which I would like to fix somehow.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Honestly, that right there, I think, is the biggest part of my life that I would like to change in some way that I look at a Bell Labs type situation. I'm like, God damn, I love that whole situation. And I'm so jealous of it. And you're like reading about Hamming. And then you see that he also shared enough with Shannon. And you're like, of course he did. Of course they shared an office. That's how these ideas get like. And they actually probably.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is with Bell Labs also, where you've got otherwise very theorizing minds in very pragmatic contexts that I think is really helpful for the theory as well as for the applications. So I think that stuff can be positive for progress.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It is that I mean Manhattan Project is a perfect example, probably the quintessential example that one is a little bit more macabre than others because of like what they were building. But in terms of how many focused smart hours of human intelligence get pointed towards a topic per day, you're just maxing it out with that sense of worry. In that context, everyone there was saying like, we've got to get the bomb before Hitler does. And that just lights a fire under you that Again, like the circumstances macabre, but I think that's actually pretty healthy, especially for researchers that are otherwise going to be really theoretical. To take these theorizers and say, make this real physical thing happen, meaning a lot of it is going to be unsexy. A lot of it's going to be like young Feynman sitting there kind of inventing a notion of computation in order to compute what they needed to compute more quickly with like the rudimentary automated tools that they had available. I think you see”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Circuit switching, you could kind of make this case that in some calamitous circumstance where a central location gets nuked, this is a much more resilient way to still have your communication lines that like traditional telephone lines weren't as resilient to, which I just found very interesting that that Even something that we see is so happy go lucky is just a bunch of computer nerds trying to get interactive computing out there. The actual thing that made it funded and thing that made it advance when it did was because of this direct national security question and concern.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this was kind of what I had always thought like, oh, is this like fringe group that was interested in this new kind of computing? And they all got themselves together. But the thing is, like, DARPA wouldn't actually, you wouldn't have the US government funding that just for the funds of it, right? In some sense, that's what ARPA was all about just really advanced research for the sake of having advanced research and it doesn't have to pay out with utility soon. But the core parts of its development were happening in the middle of the Vietnam War when there was budgetary constraints all over the place. I only learned this recently actually like if you look at the documents basically justifying the budget for the ARPANET as they were developing it and not just keeping it where it was but actively growing it while all sorts of other departments were having their funding cut because of the war. A big part of it was national defense in terms of having like a more robust communication system like the idea of packet switching versus”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, so I mean, it was, there was like this small community of people who were really interested in time sharing computing and interactive computing in contrast with batch processing. And then the idea that as you set up like a time-sharing center, basically meaning you have multiple people logged in and using that central computer, why not make it accessible to others?”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, what I like about it is, and I also like this about the moon missions, sure, it's kind of arbitrary, but you can't move the target You can't make it easier and say that you've accomplished the goal. And when that happens, it just demands actual innovation, right? Like protecting humans from the radiation in space on the flight there while they're hard problem. Demands innovation. You can't move the goalpost to make that easier. Almost certainly the innovation is required for things like that will be relevant in a bunch of other domains too. So like the idea of doing something merely because it's hard. It's like loosely productive. Great, but as long as you can't move the goalposts, there's probably going to be these secondary benefits that Like we should all strive for.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, All of the people who are like skeptical about it are why do we care about going to Mars? It's like what makes you care about anything that's inspiring. It's hard.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you want to talk about actual. Second Earth kind of stuff, that's just like way far out there. And the future moves so fast that.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No idea. Like either AGI kills us first, or if we're allowed, I don't know if it'll take us. Well, like, honestly, it would take such a long time. Like, okay, you might have a small colony, right? Something like what you see in the Martian, but not people living comfortably there”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, the thought that if Earth goes to hell. We got to have a backup somewhere. A lot of people see that as pretty out there, and it's like not in the short term future, but I think that's an inspiring thought. I think that's a reason to get up in the morning. And I feel like most employees at SpaceX feel that way too.”
2020-08-23 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #118 – Grant Sanderson: Math, Manim, Neural Networks & Teaching with 3Blue1Brown · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source