is this available as a podcast?
It's on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ycombinator/how-to-build-the-future-m...
Weird, searching for ycombinator https://soundcloud.com/akharris this podcast comes up and not the one linked on soundcloud above
Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
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Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#102I'm sure the hardest part was backstabbing all his partners.
Could have been the easiest part too.
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#103Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#104I'm sure the hardest part was backstabbing all his partners.
For someone that calls their users "dumb fuckers", I wholeheartedly doubt it.
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#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
And also be extremely lucky.
The good part is that if you are working on something you care about, you won't be as upset when you fail if you were building something just to become the next Zuck. This does contrast with pg's story, however.
> The good part is that if you are working on something you care about, you won't be as upset
This probably varies from person to person, but failing at something I care about would make me much more upset than failing at something I didn't really care about.
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#106His low point was when Yahoo offered to buy FB for a billion dollars. Dark times.
Amazing he got through it all.
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#107Refreshing advice: Work on a problem you care about and don't worry about the rest until it's working. > Sam: So you were 19 when you started Facebook. One question we hear a lot at Y Combinator is, "I'm 19 today. I really want to do whatever I can to make the world better. What should I do?" > Mark: I always think that the most important thing that entrepreneurs should do is pick something they care about, work on i…
And also be extremely lucky.
"I find that the major objection is that people think great science is done by luck. It's all a matter of luck. Well, consider Einstein. Note how many different things he did that were good. Was it all luck? Wasn't it a little too repetitive? Consider Shannon. He didn't do just information theory. Several years before, he did some other good things and some which are still locked up in the security of cryptography. He did many good things. You see again and again, that it is more than one thing from a good person. Once in a while a person does only one thing in his whole life, and we'll talk about that later, but a lot of times there is repetition. I claim that luck will not cover everything. And I will cite Pasteur who said, 'Luck favors the prepared mind.' And I think that says it the way I believe it. There is indeed an element of luck, and no, there isn't. The prepared mind sooner or later finds something important and does it. So yes, it is luck. The particular thing you do is luck, but that you do something is not."
--R.W. Hamming
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#108Election campaigners of Trump/Hillary would cringe at this video. Zuck's body language looks bad because of the chair their are using. It is slanted and Zuck is sitting straight. It makes him look less relaxed (like a job interview). Same with Sam Altman. Complete lack of emotions in Zuck's eyes. It might be part of his personality but it makes him look very detached from what he is talking about.
Here is a direct link the to recording hosted on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/ycombinator/how-to-build-the-future-m...
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#109> I heard this story recently that at this conference where > someone has built a machine learning application where you > can take a picture of a lesion on someone's skin, and it can > detect instantly whether it's skin cancer with the accuracy > of the best dermatologists and doctors in the world. So who > doesn't want that, right? I wonder what that app is? Is it SkinVision[1] or IBM's proprietary medical techonol…
> So who doesn't want that, right? What about privacy? Doctors in my country (France) are legally obliged to respect the privacy of their patients and the confidentiality of medical data. A third-party cloud service, not so much. Edit: To be more precise, I'm not saying that medical apps can't be done right. I'm just disagreeing with the implication that an efficient medical app is automatically a good thing.
Similar apps have been around a while - http://www.wired.com/2015/09/social-network-doctors-swap-gro...
> And finally, if you’re worried about your own gnarly ER visit showing up on Figure 1, the app is very careful about patient privacy. Every time anyone uploads an image, the first thing they do is fill out a consent form. Figure 1 has an algorithm that automatically obscures faces, and tools that let the user erase any pixels containing names, dates, or any other identifying details.
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#110I'm sure the hardest part was backstabbing all his partners.
That's neither civil nor substantive. Please don't comment like that here.
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