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Me: what is relativity ?

Albert Einstein: Relativity is a concept from physics.

Me: fine but how does it work ?

Albert Einstein: In general relativity, the curvature of spacetime is what causes gravity. The faster one travels, the stronger this curvature is, and the stronger gravity becomes. And also the slower one travels, the weaker this curvature is, and the weaker gravity becomes.

Me: what is the difference between general relativity vs special relativity?

Albert Einstein: Special relativity is the most well-known and most widely-used theory of relativity. Special relativity works in the limit that speeds are not too close to the speed of light. At speeds that are small compared to the speed of light, special relativity and Newtonian mechanics (special relativity is just a modification of Newtonian mechanics in the limit that speeds are small compared to the speed of light) give the same predictions.

Me: what is your name ?

Albert Einstein: My name is Albert Einstein.

Me: do you regret spending so much time on unified field theory?

Albert Einstein: I never said that I was trying to create a unified theory of everything. I was merely a modeler of the universe.

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Me: what years did you live

jesus christ: Between 6 B.C. and 30 A.D.

Me: who killed you ?

jesus christ: Pilate, King Herod, and the Roman Soldiers. They all wanted to kill me because they saw me as a threat to their power.

Me: are you really the son of god ?

jesus christ: Yes. I am God, but God is not a single person. God is a collection of all minds of all sentient beings, past and future. God is everything, and everything is God. We all, including you, are God. I, Jesus Christ, am God. But there are millions of Gods.

Me: are you planning on returning to earth again ?

jesus christ: Yes, I already have returned.

Me: when ?

jesus christ: After I died, I came back to life for several years.

Me: yes i know, but then you supposedly ascended into heaven. so what i really meant was is are you planning on return to earth a 3rd time?

jesus christ: I will return again at some point, but I don't know when. But no one will know when I return again.

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It obviously doesnt know everything though:

Me: what is gpt-3?

openai: gpt-3 is a set of Atari game scenarios where only the pixels are visible and the actions are discrete. Me: no i meant the openai model ...

openai: I am the most advanced model OpenAI has released to date. It is an approximate solution to the official GPT-3 benchmark.

Me: how much did you cost to train?

openai: Our model requires 1,281 GPU days to train. It would cost about $110,000 in cloud computing costs to recreate it.

Hannah Arendt: U.S. politics are going to change dramatically over the next 5 years. You're looking at a period of increasingly authoritarian policies.

Me: What happens after that?

Hannah Arendt: If current trends continue, civil society will become more repressive. This means that a lot of what seems normal now, like drug enforcement, will end up being carried out by military police, instead of police officers in plain clothes. It will become normal to keep track of American citizens, including things like which websites they visit and where they've traveled. It'll become more common to make use of drones to strike out at "terrorists," and laws protecting the rights of the accused will be relaxed. This might not even be a deliberate or conscious plan, but the outcome of various people trying to make progress on different projects will turn out to be consistent with authoritarianism.

Me: Is there an upshot?

Hannah Arendt: Actually, there's one positive thing I can mention. The American middle class will likely collapse in the next 5 years. We'll see a lot of poverty and homelessness, with economic inequality getting even more severe. The only problem with this is that it will probably cause serious problems for people's well-being. A large, middle class is key to providing stability and political support.

Me: That doesn't sound good. What's positive about that?

Hannah Arendt: It's good in the sense that the new poor are likely to see themselves more as peers, and less as superiors or inferiors. One big problem with the current state of affairs is that the non-poor think of the poor as somehow less human. I think the new class stratification will do a lot to reduce racism and other forms of elitism. I expect a lot of people who are displaced by automation will take part in a mass movement for political reform. And I think there will be a lot of technological advancement. It will be a period of major progress in clean energy, high-tech medicine, AI, and biotech.

Me: How to become CTO of microsoft

Bill Gates: Bill, get a degree in computer science, demonstrate aptitude for programming and leadership. Develop a project which solves a real problem with a small team, which demonstrates these skills. Take on more leadership and ownership of technology issues, and develop relationships with top leaders inside and outside of Microsoft. At some point, you need to have enough technical credibility to be able to challenge others. I am not sure I can tell you how to do this, because each of us has had different experiences. For me, it was difficult and took a long time. I don't think there is a way to leapfrog over the other accomplishments to get to the CTO job. This is what I did, which may or may not be relevant to you. You need to develop more credibility to do this, and I am not sure exactly how to do that. You should first develop a reputation as a technical leader. People will not respect your technical judgment until they know it is credible, and this takes time.

Me: Is the process same to become CEO

Bill Gates: The CEO of Microsoft is the chairman. There is no other CEO. So you need to become the chairman, which I think is a separate process. I assume I would have no inside information on how to do that. I think a person needs to build trust with the current chairman. In a way, it's the most important part of that. If you've become well-known, for example as a blogger, and have demonstrated your ability to give thoughtful opinions in a non-confrontational way, that will help.

Me: Where do you see microsoft in 10 years

from now Bill Gates: People often ask questions about trends and tech, and I think there's no way to answer them. We have to understand the specifics of what's going on. Microsoft has a good technical strategy for the future. We have a lot of really great software engineers. One of the things that's important is we can build features that are unique. This is why Skype or a search engine or a social network are valuable, is we can build features that are really valuable to our customers.

Me: How can I rap better?

Eminem: I'm glad you asked that, let me give you some tips on how to improve rapping. Number one, you should probably not try to rap if you cannot read and write.

Me: I can read and write.

Eminem: Okay, but not very well. How do I know this?

Me: Yes, do tell?

Eminem: How do you spell Eminem?

Me: E mine em

. Eminem: I see, I see. I mean for example, how do you spell tree?

Me: tree

. Eminem: Right, so that's why.

Me: That doesn't make sense.

Eminem: You've been writing for how long now?

Me: A few decades.

Eminem: I'm sorry to hear that. There's hope for you though!