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Greg Brockman

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1. “A lot of it actually boils down to iteration speed that I think that a lot of what really motivates me is building things. Think about mathematics, for example, where you think really hard about a problem, you understand it. You write it down in this very obscure form that we call proof. But then this is in humanities library, right? It's there forever. This is some truth that we've discovered. Maybe only five people in your field will ever read it. But somehow you've kind of moved humanity forward. And so I actually used to really think that I was going to be a mathematician. And then I actually started writing this chemistry textbook. One of my friends told me, you'll never publish it because you don't have a PhD. So instead, I decided to build a website and tried to promote my ideas that way. And then I discovered programming. And programming you think hard about a problem, you understand it, you write down in a very obscure form that we call a program. But then once again, it's in humanities library, right? And anyone can get the benefit from it. And the scalability is massive.”

   2019-04-03 · Lex Fridman Podcast · Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source