by dragons or snakes. That's maybe a clue. We're dealing with myth here. But he is really the template for Vikings. You want to figure out, like, what the Vikings wanted, who's their success story, it's Ragnar Lothbrok. He's born Norway, Denmark, countries argue over that. Maybe Sweden. Some sagas say he's in Uppsala. Anyway, he is, you know, penniless, and when he is in his late teens or early 20s, he decides to invade, sail up the Seine. Uh,
arguments on both sides. Most people want to live in a world that is free from crime. At the same time, nobody wants to live in a perpetual panopticon where every move that you do is surveilled. And a lot of the double-edged nature of this technology comes down to the people that are using the tools, right? Like who gets the keys to the castle and how are they deploying
"Blue Sky and White Clouds.” They might not have heard it, it was decades ago. -"Wanna Laugh" — -Yes. And the one I really like, "Mr. Reflection.” You really know your stuff.
But because of the power steering, it's actually very light and a driver can very much play with how much power steering they want in the car. So you get huge forces coming through your neck.
It caused me discomfort. Wanting doesn't feel good.
So Aleksandar Mitrovic-- I have trouble with his last name-- a Google employee, this was in the mid 2010s, wanted to better understand the neural network behind object recognition. And so he sort of amplified the neural nets behavior and it started creating these super cool Deep Dream images, that's how it became known,
Ah, good old Clay. Wants to fly fish the wild rivers of my soul. So that's why they called it "Serendipity 1.
I think a lot of people actually believe that. wanting right now. Why is Brandon nodding his head right now?
There's some who don't have a strong presence. They don't have it. They don't They don't know it. But but they're looking hard. These are hopeful wanderers. And I have a lot of students like that. And and I was a lot like that when I was in my 20s. I didn't know what my meaning in life really was, but I sure thought I could find it. And I was looking hard
problem. And for Aristotle in his politics it might even be the death of civilization. Want to support the channel? Join the Big Think members community where you get access to videos early, ad free.
selfish impulses that keep us from doing so. But if you've ever talked to a chatbot, there's none of that. And this has individual implications, but also broader social implications. We don't want to live in a world where everybody everyone's selfish urges are satisfied and nobody really has leared to care about other people. There have been various news reports of people who with delusions where the delusions have been encouraged by uh by these AI models where uh somebody comes in and
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kind of cultural dynamics, the rise of particular technologies, this really robust information ecosystem that we find ourselves in, which pretty fractured. Robust is a nice way to put it. But I want to talk about some of the other institutions, and particularly our political institutions. I'm very curious about something I've heard you talk about in the past, executive power, which is something that has expanded pretty reliably over the course of many, many administrations, and the current administration is certainly no exception to that. They've made a lot of
situation, they'd like to pass it. And they'd like to pass an agenda that people like the Heritage Foundation have in one form or another been pushing for 40 years. So the last thing that they want to hear is that Congress needs to interfere more and slow things down and re-establish guardrails and all these kinds of things, which is the same thing that liberals would have felt like during FDR's administration when he's trying to pull people out of the depression, but doing so in ways that increase the tyranny potential, right? So this is the, in my view, the problem we have
conversation about what do you want us to do about it. And they'd say, "Well, we have photos." And they'd say, "Well, what are the photos of? Well, we've got a photo of his black eye." And I'd say, wanted to go with this is I read a story today where young people are giving themselves digital breaks and trying to, you know, touch grass a little bit more in the old line of things. In
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going to sort of figure it out. Um there's just some set of interesting questions in this area that I think I want you to to have in mind. One is you know first is this a thing like in what sense is this powerful where does it come from? If you have it how are you going to wield it? What does optimal
They do everything they can to produce costs. wanted to add speed, focus, and accountability.
want one where there are certain configurations that might be interesting," like there's gobs of energy in the detector, or there's a gob of energy on one side and nothing on the other
want them to do well in school, the fact that they, their culture is that way. These are, you know, these are just the thing about their country,
want intelligence, the broad public, or do they want speed?
wanted to mention—which is a book I highly recommend—Build a Large Language Model from Scratch, and the new one, Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch. So, I'm really excited about
wanna be talking about.... and so I don't have any problem asserting the Axiom of Choice. Yes, there is a way of choosing,
want, and balancing the cooling and the output of getting the water out of it.
wants, that creates this incredible feeling of, like, "This world is alive.
want a character that was rounded and you felt had good sides and bad sides.
want nuclear weapons? What was his goal here?
wants to be isolated from the west.
want to protect themselves. And defend their freedom and their human choice.
wants sweets at 11:00 at night, that's true. But I am the idiot who
want to get tired. I want to have a job that fulfills me, but I also like this car and this house. And so, I
want that. Right? I want to have a creative life but I never want to get
wants to be but at the same time they really want to launch that AI startup.
wanted us to. And now he can't figure out how to get us out of it. Troops have lost their lives. Prices are
want to go to the moon.
wants to come out.
want to do. And I imagine the people that are listening also feel the same way. So, where does one have to start?
want to build muscle and lose fat." Or if it's just, "Hey, I want to lose fat." I personally find it easier for women,
want to try it and you're curious about it, then you should have access to physicians who understand how this works and they know how to write the damn
wanted to have a conference on AI and they wanted it introduced from someone
want to succeed with this club. They want to bring this club back to the days we were used to see Man United. I know
want to they are interested in taking over the system um with that. And and then there's a traditional MAGA group who think the United States should be
wants this map this world map to play out, it makes perfect sense.
want to know what's going on. No, this is Well, this is important to talk about, right? Cuz we have to understand
want, we will work on. You want we'll open our oil sector. We'll open our mining sector. We'll have better rags.
want to ensure their own futures. And so we see increasingly two different blocks
wanted me to go be doctor lawyer whatever the world wasn't really pulling me away from myself but then on the other end of the spectrum you know I'm
wanted to do this and was waiting till he had the intelligent the good the
want to live in a world where basically nations cannot do that to people. And that's where the basis of the Nuremberg
wanting to win the Nobel Peace Prize, although he's probably never said it directly. And you It almost looks like a Trump that's thinking about his legacy