Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]
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Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]
#2Url changed from http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/peter-thiel-ii..., which points to this.
Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]
#3For those who would prefer just the audio it's also offered as a podcast on iTunes.
Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]
#4Is there a transcript anywhere?
I much prefer reading over watching/listening
Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]
#5Is there a transcript anywhere? I much prefer reading over watching/listening
Youtube has an auto-generated transcript feature. In the video description, click More->Transcript.
Edit: actually don't use the YouTube transcripts, there's a human-curated transcript here http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/peter-thi...
Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]
#6Is there a transcript anywhere? I much prefer reading over watching/listening
Youtube has an auto-generated transcript feature. In the video description, click More->Transcript. Edit: actually don't use the YouTube transcripts, there's a human-curated transcript here http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/peter-thi...
That transcript system doesn't recognize sentence breaks.
Theil speaks in run-on sentences, so it's not entirely the transcription system's fault.
Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]
#7OK, the big theme here is "innovation has slowed down, but this is being masked by all the activity around computers". So let's take a look at that.
Way too many smart people are tied up doing rather banal things with computers, or in finance. That's capitalism in action.
What isn't being worked on? Thiel is bothered by lack of progress in medicine. Medicine is now working on really hard problems, most of which are consequences of aging. Short of redesigning the human genome to eliminate aging, which may happen, those problems will remain hard.
There hasn't been much visible progress in aircraft in a while. Boeing is still building the 737, which first flew in 1967. Aircraft are lighter, quieter, more fuel efficient and safer than they were back then. But not cheaper.
The biggest societal problem is that we have less and less of a role for a big part of the population. The average IQ is only 100, remember.
Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]
#8Url changed from http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/video/peter-thiel-ii... , which points to this.
I don't think this is a good URL change. It is not like http://conversationswithbillkristol.org is a blog spam for "Conversations with Bill Kristol". And the original site has video divided into chapters which is useful.
Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]
#9OK, the big theme here is "innovation has slowed down, but this is being masked by all the activity around computers". So let's take a look at that. Way too many smart people are tied up doing rather banal things with computers, or in finance. That's capitalism in action. What isn't being worked on? Thiel is bothered by lack of progress in medicine. Medicine is now working on really hard problems, most of which are c…
One of the hardest, but also the most pressing issues is regarding population growth.
Should we artificially limit population growth? Can it be done in a way that isn't forceful, but perhaps with the right incentives?
Should humanity, as a global society push for quality over quantity in reproduction? Is basic income still feasible in this scenario?
It's an ethical and ideological mess and frankly, it'll require someone way smarter than I to come up with the answers.
Re: Peter Thiel on the Global Economy, Technology, Artificial Intelligence [video]
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Youtube has an auto-generated transcript feature. In the video description, click More->Transcript. Edit: actually don't use the YouTube transcripts, there's a human-curated transcript here http://conversationswithbillkristol.org/transcript/peter-thi...
That transcript system doesn't recognize sentence breaks. Theil speaks in run-on sentences, so it's not entirely the transcription system's fault.
It also doesn't try to distinguish the speakers, which is weird. (It could just be "speaker #1", "speaker #2", etc.) I'd have thought it would be a lot easier to distinguish voices than to understand the English words they are saying.