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Conversations with Tyler · 28 Jun 2023

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01 / belief

I do think that, generally speaking, part of the reason why I deeply share the OpenAI mission is to say, how do we provide beneficial AI to as many individuals, human beings, and as many organizations and as many institutions as we can is, I think, a really good thing.

“I do think that, generally speaking, part of the reason why I deeply share the OpenAI mission is to say, how do we provide beneficial AI to as many individuals, human beings, and as many organizations and as many institutions as we can is, I think, a really good thing.”
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Reid Hoffman
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02 / belief

I think you’ll have all of those, but I think you’ll still have homework. We’re going to have a whole bunch of tools that help teachers, help grade, a bunch of other stuff.

“I think you’ll have all of those, but I think you’ll still have homework. We’re going to have a whole bunch of tools that help teachers, help grade, a bunch of other stuff.”
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05 / commitment

There’s a bunch of things that we didn’t cover in Impromptu, so I actually think we will do another book and set a content around AI, possibly within this calendar year, which will be pretty amazing.

“There’s a bunch of things that we didn’t cover in Impromptu, so I actually think we will do another book and set a content around AI, possibly within this calendar year, which will be pretty amazing.”
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Reid Hoffman
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06 / belief

Part of the reason why I helped stand up OpenAI — I was on the board for a number of years — is, broadly provisioning safe AI to as much of humanity, as many businesses as possible, including as many political parties and all the rest, is, I think, a good thing.

“Part of the reason why I helped stand up OpenAI — I was on the board for a number of years — is, broadly provisioning safe AI to as much of humanity, as many businesses as possible, including as many political parties and all the rest, is, I think, a good thing.”
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Reid Hoffman
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07 / belief

Look at, for example, what AlphaFold did with protein folding. And I think that application of this stuff and tuning it within particular biological sciences and other things — I think there’s a line of sight to more things.

“Look at, for example, what AlphaFold did with protein folding. And I think that application of this stuff and tuning it within particular biological sciences and other things — I think there’s a line of sight to more things.”
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15 / belief

One of the things that I did when I was doing this is, we’ve kicked off a product — which is, I believe, live now at LinkedIn — called Bizpedia, which is trying to provide an in-depth Wikipedia for all of the information that professionals might need.

“One of the things that I did when I was doing this is, we’ve kicked off a product — which is, I believe, live now at LinkedIn — called Bizpedia, which is trying to provide an in-depth Wikipedia for all of the information that professionals might need.”
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Reid Hoffman
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24 / belief

I think, obviously, we should be doing everything possible on solar and a bunch of others, but electricity — the AI revolution is the cognitive industrial revolution powered by electricity, and so, super important.

“I think, obviously, we should be doing everything possible on solar and a bunch of others, but electricity — the AI revolution is the cognitive industrial revolution powered by electricity, and so, super important.”
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25 / belief

I think the kind of Uncle Tom, if it really is a totally autonomous being — hence being careful about going into it — a new form of robot slaves is perhaps not ultimately where humanity would want to be.

“I think the kind of Uncle Tom, if it really is a totally autonomous being — hence being careful about going into it — a new form of robot slaves is perhaps not ultimately where humanity would want to be.”
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Reid Hoffman
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28 / recommendation

One of the things I’ve been advocating for a number of years — we need to have a secretary of technology, not just a CTO [chief technology officer], because if technology is a drumbeat of industries and a bunch of other things, having that be a first-class citizen where you’re doing strategy and everything else around, I think is really important.

“One of the things I’ve been advocating for a number of years — we need to have a secretary of technology, not just a CTO [chief technology officer], because if technology is a drumbeat of industries and a bunch of other things, having that be a first-class citizen where you’re doing strategy and everything else around, I think is really important.”
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Reid Hoffman
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31 / evaluation

I think autonomy is one of the lines that we have to cross carefully. It’s possible that there will be such autonomous AIs, but it’s one of the areas like self-improving code, autonomy are areas that I pay a lot of attention to because right now, I’m — as you know — a huge advocate of its amplifying human capabilities and being a personal AI, being a copilot to the stuff that we’re doing.

“I think autonomy is one of the lines that we have to cross carefully. It’s possible that there will be such autonomous AIs, but it’s one of the areas like self-improving code, autonomy are areas that I pay a lot of attention to because right now, I’m — as you know — a huge advocate of its amplifying human capabilities and being a personal AI, being a copilot to the stuff that we’re doing.”
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32 / recommendation

Matter of fact, at the moment, if someone had said, “Hey, there’s a self-evolving bot that someone let in the wild,” I would say, “We should go capture it or kill it today.” Because we don’t know what the services are.

“Matter of fact, at the moment, if someone had said, “Hey, there’s a self-evolving bot that someone let in the wild,” I would say, “We should go capture it or kill it today.” Because we don’t know what the services are.”
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33 / prediction

I think to some degree, one of the earliest regulations we’ll see is that every AI has to, essentially, be provisionally owned and governed by some person, so there will be some accountability chain.

“I think to some degree, one of the earliest regulations we’ll see is that every AI has to, essentially, be provisionally owned and governed by some person, so there will be some accountability chain.”
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Reid Hoffman
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35 / prediction

I think, ultimately, my guess would be it’s not, because to reflect back a point that I heard you make — but I now plagiarize you shamelessly — which is, look, we have these AIs that play chess better than human beings.

“I think, ultimately, my guess would be it’s not, because to reflect back a point that I heard you make — but I now plagiarize you shamelessly — which is, look, we have these AIs that play chess better than human beings.”
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Reid Hoffman
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36 / evaluation

I actually disagree with the view that money doesn’t have an influence. That view is like saying marketing doesn’t work, and it’s clear that marketing can work.

“I actually disagree with the view that money doesn’t have an influence. That view is like saying marketing doesn’t work, and it’s clear that marketing can work.”
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37 / belief

I think that Peter’s reading of The Tempest would view the importance of the primacy of the individual, the importance of Prospero and the magician being self-creating, and that the individual is the primary focus of what matters.

“I think that Peter’s reading of The Tempest would view the importance of the primacy of the individual, the importance of Prospero and the magician being self-creating, and that the individual is the primary focus of what matters.”
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Reid Hoffman
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38 / belief

I would say the bad challenges are almost like an emotional response of “People should be listening to me, and yet they’re off doing this Facebook thing and not listening to me.” So the fact that attention flows in a different way — and that’s both economics and everything else — I think is what causes a bad response because part of Facebook is saying, “Hey, we’re enabling every individual to speak and connect and follow what they want.

“I would say the bad challenges are almost like an emotional response of “People should be listening to me, and yet they’re off doing this Facebook thing and not listening to me.” So the fact that attention flows in a different way — and that’s both economics and everything else — I think is what causes a bad response because part of Facebook is saying, “Hey, we’re enabling every individual to speak and connect and follow what they want.”
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Reid Hoffman
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39 / belief

I would say that probably the way that I tend to have grown thinking in networks and thinking of evolution, of incentives and cultures, probably didn’t come from Putney.

“I would say that probably the way that I tend to have grown thinking in networks and thinking of evolution, of incentives and cultures, probably didn’t come from Putney.”
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41 / belief

I guess what I would say is that I tend to think in terms of systems — Dewey was a system thinker — but then I tend to think in terms of Archimedean levers, by which you change the systems.

“I guess what I would say is that I tend to think in terms of systems — Dewey was a system thinker — but then I tend to think in terms of Archimedean levers, by which you change the systems.”
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42 / belief

I would say that my comparative strength was that I was willing to interface with these various massive platforms and institutions — eBay, Visa, Mastercard, government regulation, other companies — and to figure out how to win PayPal a place within those platforms, how to navigate their concerns, how to not make PayPal be organ rejection to those entities.

“I would say that my comparative strength was that I was willing to interface with these various massive platforms and institutions — eBay, Visa, Mastercard, government regulation, other companies — and to figure out how to win PayPal a place within those platforms, how to navigate their concerns, how to not make PayPal be organ rejection to those entities.”
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43 / belief

I think the primary thing that I was writing about in that essay was that one can articulate very good conservative values that are not trying to lock in the past against the future, but trying to articulate principles that help guide you in your own evolution of thinking about concepts like liberty and others.

“I think the primary thing that I was writing about in that essay was that one can articulate very good conservative values that are not trying to lock in the past against the future, but trying to articulate principles that help guide you in your own evolution of thinking about concepts like liberty and others.”
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Reid Hoffman
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47 / belief

I would say yes, with maybe only the following asterisk, which is, part of the reason to be 10-out-of-10 idealistic is not to be naïve, not to be simplistic, not to realize that tragedy isn’t really possible, but that is actually, in fact, the goal of our lives and what we should work towards.

“I would say yes, with maybe only the following asterisk, which is, part of the reason to be 10-out-of-10 idealistic is not to be naïve, not to be simplistic, not to realize that tragedy isn’t really possible, but that is actually, in fact, the goal of our lives and what we should work towards.”
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Reid Hoffman
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48 / belief

Buckley’s side, him sitting to my left, Arianna Huffington sitting to my right. This is when Ariana Huffington gave an impassioned speech — she’s awesome; I think the world of her — that the internet was a poisoned well that our children were drinking from.

“Buckley’s side, him sitting to my left, Arianna Huffington sitting to my right. This is when Ariana Huffington gave an impassioned speech — she’s awesome; I think the world of her — that the internet was a poisoned well that our children were drinking from.”
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Reid Hoffman
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50 / belief

I do think the notion of saying, how do we shape our system so that competent governance leaders — we as a society are made more aware of them, is I think the way we need to solve that problem.

“I do think the notion of saying, how do we shape our system so that competent governance leaders — we as a society are made more aware of them, is I think the way we need to solve that problem.”
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51 / preference

I think we would actually prefer patterns that get to success not by being a reality television star, such as our current president, but actually, in fact, success and attributes in the things that lead to the good governance of a state.

“I think we would actually prefer patterns that get to success not by being a reality television star, such as our current president, but actually, in fact, success and attributes in the things that lead to the good governance of a state.”
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52 / recommendation

If you look at it, my view would be that, as you have more successful tech companies that have an impact on society as a whole, part of what you should start doing is deliberately engaging in discourse with the various institutions of society in a public way, to say, “Here is the kinds of things that not only are we doing now, but what we’re trying to create in the future.

“If you look at it, my view would be that, as you have more successful tech companies that have an impact on society as a whole, part of what you should start doing is deliberately engaging in discourse with the various institutions of society in a public way, to say, “Here is the kinds of things that not only are we doing now, but what we’re trying to create in the future.”
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Reid Hoffman
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53 / recommendation

Where you can find really startlingly good talent, where the traditional mechanisms don’t work? So it’s a little bit of the contrarian question, where you say, “Hey, actually, looking for the person who dropped out of school because school was boring, and they wanted to achieve something really interesting, but they were still driven by curiosity and interest and these sorts of things,” is a way of doing it.

“Where you can find really startlingly good talent, where the traditional mechanisms don’t work? So it’s a little bit of the contrarian question, where you say, “Hey, actually, looking for the person who dropped out of school because school was boring, and they wanted to achieve something really interesting, but they were still driven by curiosity and interest and these sorts of things,” is a way of doing it.”
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54 / recommendation

You need to be learning for the current modern networked age, and to be constantly learning, and make sure as many kids as possible learn that and keep learning because then you can adjust to the new jobs.

“You need to be learning for the current modern networked age, and to be constantly learning, and make sure as many kids as possible learn that and keep learning because then you can adjust to the new jobs.”
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55 / prediction

” Because not only will I think that evolves a lot of productivity, but I think that will also evolve the society and morality in the right way because we should prefer non–zero-sum games.

“” Because not only will I think that evolves a lot of productivity, but I think that will also evolve the society and morality in the right way because we should prefer non–zero-sum games.”
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57 / evaluation

I would say that the notion of thinking about — a central part of later Wittgenstein is to think that we play language games, that the way that we form identity and community, both of ourselves and as individuals, is the way that we discourse and the way that we see each other and the way that we elaborate language.

“I would say that the notion of thinking about — a central part of later Wittgenstein is to think that we play language games, that the way that we form identity and community, both of ourselves and as individuals, is the way that we discourse and the way that we see each other and the way that we elaborate language.”
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58 / recommendation

I would say Dune with Frank Herbert because of thinking of the broad scale of the interplay of politics and religion in the evolution of society, because science fiction is, by making these artificial future societies, a lens onto our own.

“I would say Dune with Frank Herbert because of thinking of the broad scale of the interplay of politics and religion in the evolution of society, because science fiction is, by making these artificial future societies, a lens onto our own.”
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59 / evaluation

For example, there are some entrepreneurs that say, “Oh, this person is an absolutely great technologist,” and I go, “Well, that person doesn’t really understand technology that well, so that doesn’t matter.

“For example, there are some entrepreneurs that say, “Oh, this person is an absolutely great technologist,” and I go, “Well, that person doesn’t really understand technology that well, so that doesn’t matter.”
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60 / preference

One of the expressions I used when I was an undergraduate to describe the kind of philosophy I wanted to do is transcendental anthropology, which is, you’re looking at what humans are doing, but you’re applying Kantian analyses to it in order to derive good philosophy.

“One of the expressions I used when I was an undergraduate to describe the kind of philosophy I wanted to do is transcendental anthropology, which is, you’re looking at what humans are doing, but you’re applying Kantian analyses to it in order to derive good philosophy.”
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