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If corporate media EVER wonders why it’s losing people like me to people like Coleman, it’s because in their current format you rarely in ever hear thoughtful lines of questioning that lead to thought provoking answers and conversation. There’s just not enough space between commercial breaks and too much partisan politics to allow for the nuance needed when discussing complex issues. Thank you Coleman.
Having thought on what you said here for a couple of minute, I'm hesitantly positing that I've never heard a question uttered by corporate media. And by question I mean a sentence in which one wants an answer to. We only see sentences disguised as questions where the focal point is the one uttering said sentences.
Coleman, I am physicist from Russia - and I am absolutely love your podcast and how much effort you are putting in keeping it argument based and discussion driven. Thank you, I deeply appreciate your work!
Согласна! Отрыла Кольмана в 2020. С тех пор слушаю постоянно. Учусь у него мудрости и оригинальности мышления. Также удивительно спокойной и миролюбивой манере общения.
19:39 answer on wokeness 29:14 on how a16z operates 34:40 on Elon 37:50 Artificial Intelligence 40:00 AI as applied to text data, the most powerful of all? 51:40 Andreessen on his personality 55:40 vision for a16z
43:00 Marc conflates Coleman’s concerns of AI diminishing people’s ability to write and express themselves with Socrates’ argument against written language in favor or oral language. The problem with this, and he even erroneously mentions this without realizing it, is in the Socrates example, albeit written or oral language, people are still generating ideas, they are still conceiving ideas, just in different forms. With the encroachment of AI onto forms of creative expression, the machine is generating the ideas and “art”. This is an important distinction as it demonstrates this was a poor analogy and Coleman’s rightful concerns weren’t addressed.
This one is worth watching a couple of times. You know it’s an interesting conversation when you stop it from time to time in order to consider what they are saying a bit longer. Thanks for this.
Your album is so damn good. I revisited your ColdXman page almost daily since the first song came out to see if anything else dropped or at least relisten to the released songs again.
around six mins Marc says there's a shortage of good entrepreneurs and ideas... this statement actually breaks logic. the issue is that the gatekeepers keep funding losers, and not funding winners. therefore, they see the quality of the pool as low. if the gatekeepers were to fund *different* founders, with different ideas, the lack of success in the startup world could potentially look different. for example, i saw a crappy little "to-do" app get about half a million dollars in funding before they had any users or startup experience. this company never managed to get any users and failed within a year. while companies with experienced founders and a strong products get turned down. the problem might not be a shortage of good ideas, it may be terribly ignorant gatekeepers, who simply keep making bad bets.
Great conversation Coleman, but I do have one minor criticism; there is a lot of sibilance in the video. You might want to run the audio through a de-esser.
Two important things. First, these AI, as Marc says, aren't AI. Right now, many creator's entire catalogues are being fed into these systems and the people doing so then able to say, I want X in the style of Y, and they're doing it so they can capitalize on other's skills without having to pay them. Second, what Marc says about a new, higher-level jobs being created is true, but it's important to remember that the people who are now out of work aren't going to be the one's buying hand-made shoes for them and their horses. These venture capitalist types need to put more into supporting businesses that require human labor within jobs that fulfill and enrich the workers. You can only sell goods if there are people who can afford to buy them, and pro-tip, money gets tighter every year.
Fantastic discussion. Thanks. 💚 The analogy with Socrates and the written word vs remembered "story" doesn't ring true. In both these cases, the human mind had to and did construct content. With AI, that marked divergence is that *thought* (or content) is not original, OR not wholly original.
That was a very interesting discussion. I think, and it's not surprising given that he's a tech guy, that he's more bullish on generative AI than I am. I was just watching a Patrick Boyle video on AI a few hours ago, and I think I hew more to his take, which is that it's being seriously overhyped. It's novel, yes, but not that fundamentally different from a lot of other AIs that are already extant.
Saw a news feed saying Mr Andersson says we are coming into a time where TV's that cover your whole wall cost 100$ and 1 million for a 4 year college degree. My question is where can I go to find a TV to cover my whole wall for 100$
20:08 the point about the Cynical view on how egalitarian thought going from being about economic struggle and now shifting to race and gender is fascinating
Very interesting and thought provoking. It ended up being more of an interview than a conversation, and I wish Marc and let you talk more. Still a great piece of content! Keep up the great work Coleman.
@@leonardticsay8046 That's the thing. It's not even nerd shit anymore. They decided to mainstream it and now all the woke theater kids are infecting it complaining about how racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and ableist it is. WotC decided to coddle them and now the content is PABLUM. And the products are SO lazily done. They put out an update for Spelljammer and it didn't even HAVE rules for space combat. The participation trophy kids are grown up and have jobs now...
This could have gone an hour longer no problem . I would like to see Coleman sit down between Sam Harris and Bret and Heather.Or just Heather or just Bret ? Keep up the great content sir !
I don't agree with his cynical theory. Companies had brands that had to appeal to people's idea of goodness but it was perfectly within their choice not to embrace wokeness. The truth is companies are not virtuous nor are they woke. They are combinations of people, which might be woke or anti woke, but profit and pleasing the board are the only real calculations.
Exactly how can be a corporation be "woke", the objective is to make profit and if making profit mean to appealing to people the right does like then they will never be satisfied.
go woke... Can you define woke? Because lately it seems to be a word used to describe anything someone is against. It is a mockery of the word, and the people that coined it (black people fighting for civil rights). Please advise.
The discovery of the alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves... You give your disciples not truth but only the semblance of truth; they will be heroes of many things, and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing. (Socrates)
Marc said there's a shortage of good things to invest in which is bullcrap! Statistics show that diverse companies outperform by 36%. Yet black people only get 1% of venture capital. I myself have been designing better financial products then most money managers since the first day I hit college with only a public high school education. Yet I can't get a venture capitalist or money manager to return a email or call. Even though I have business models that can create a trillion in value in only a few years. That's why DEI is important! To think that all talent is locked in some white male ivy league box is ridiculous! College doesn't create talent. It only cultivates it. You line up the top money managers in the world including Warren Buffet, and I will run circles around them. Yet because I'm not in their network they ignore the opportunities!
32:30 5 min ago he was talking about everything being dictated by the market. Now he says he spends time dictating himself how they should be and behave...
Man, I got a lot out of this. One sad point, in my mind, is that Anarcho-communism was kind of paved over as being equivalent to all Anarchism. There are three major spheres in Anarchy, and the stereotype of flat models is not always prevalent at all. I feel like conflating anarchy with flat orgs, kind of short circuits the question.
The irony of Marc talking about a hierarchy hurting democracy when it's him and Elon creating a hierarchy with Trump that could potentially destroy democracy.
LOL man, the anarchists lost because of the external fascists... what an idiotic remark. So victory in combat is always dependent on a 'better' system? Were the mongols 'better'?
