Dwarkesh Patel: belief

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…It's a great example. One of the things we added was a facilitator agent in Teams. The goal there, it's in the early stages, is can that facilitator agent use long-term memory, not just on the context of the meeting, but with the context of projects I'm working on, and the team, and what have you, be a great facilitator? I would love it even in a board meeting, where it's easy to get distracted. After all, board members come once a quarter, and they're trying to digest what is happening with a complex company like Microsoft. A facilitator agent that actually helped human beings all stay on topic and focus on the issues that matter, that's fantastic. That's kind of literally having, to your point about even going back to your previous question, having something that has infinite memory that can even help us. You know, after all, what is that Herbert Simon thing? We are all bounded rationality. So if the bounded rationality of humans can actually be dealt with because there is a cognitive amplifier outside, that's great. Speaking of materials and chemistry stuff, I think you said recently that you want the next 250 years of progress in those fields to happen in the next 25 years. Now, when I think about what's going to be possible in the next 250 years, I'm thinking like space travel, and space elevators, and immortality, and curing all diseases. Next 25 years, you think? One of the reasons why I brought that up was, I love that thing of, the industrial revolution was the 250 years. We have to take this entire change from a carbon-based system to something different. That means you have to fundamentally reinvent all of what has happened with chemistry over the last 250 years. That's where I hope we have this quantum computer, this quantum computer helps us get to new materials, and then we can fabricate those new materials that help us with all of the challenges we have on this planet. And then I'm all for interplanetary travel.…

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