Lex Fridman: evaluation

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…I remember when I told people I’m going to do a PhD, most people said PhD is a waste of time. If you go work at Google after you complete your undergraduate, you’ll start off with a salary like 150K or something. But at the end of four or five years, you would have progressed to a senior or staff level and be earning a lot more. And instead, if you finish your PhD and join Google, you would start five years later at the entry level salary. What’s the point? But they viewed life like that. Little did they realize that no, you’re optimizing with a discount factor that’s equal to one or not a discount factor that’s close to zero. Yeah, I think you have to surround yourself by people. It doesn’t matter what walk of life. We’re in Texas. I hang out with people that for a living make barbecue. And those guys, the passion they have for it is generational. That’s their whole life. They stay up all night. All they do is cook barbecue, and it’s all they talk about and that’s all they love. That’s the obsession part. But Mr. Beast doesn’t do AI or math, but he’s obsessed and he worked hard to get to where he is. And I watched YouTube videos of him saying how all day he would just hang out and analyze YouTube videos, like watch patterns of what makes the views go up and study, study, study. That’s the 10,000 hours of practice. Messi has this code, or maybe it’s falsely attributed to him. This is the internet. You can’t believe what you read. But “I worked for decades to become an overnight hero,” or something like that.…

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