Summary & Notes by: Shyamal S. Chandra
Text Inspired by watching the Original Video by: Lex Fridman (Approximately first fifteen minutes)
- Wall-E (Gluttony of Technology with Apathic Lifestyles and Sedentary Media Consumption) vs. Global Nirvana (Level 5 SkyNet with Human Training) vs. Purgatory (Policy and Technology side-by-side working hand-in-hand) — Example: UAE (Future Cities with hyper-automation on the Discovery Channel) — What is heaven, hell, and in-between? That is the question. What is the perfect balance of technology, humans, and policy?
- Do we keep our secrets with black-box systems or take a risk with white box systems that keep on evolving quicker than humans can reverse-engineer? Do we keep subjective, random, illogical systems when we all win when the world is straight-forward and converted from an elegant political art into a quantitative and analytic science with gamification?
- Is the most important goal to become a monopoly like Peter Thiel’s 0 to 1 or make something that transcends our abilities and capabilities by eons of years and performs computations that we may only dream about in our lifespan? Should we fool the mainstream consensus or mystify the ardent scientists?
- John Mills Smith states that “…do things for the sake of doing it…” or do things to gain monopoly, power, or obtain materialistic goods and services? That is the question once more.
Shyamal Chandra 