Is Sam consciously mirroring Mark's body language and style of dress, or is that just a weird coincidence?
Maybe they have the same PR/charisma coaches.
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]
#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
"It's what you do after you build a great business that matters"
Why's that? Why not just skip the business step entirely? There is some kind of fallacy in your argument.
How are you going to pay for all those moonshot projects that cost billions and might not make money for a decade, if ever. Google still hasn't made any money on the self-driving car. Oculus Rift?
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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. H…
There was a lot of luck in Facebook, even if Zuck is a particularly talented individual. Also - if Harvard is a great school - how the F does someone find time to do the work and make a product at the same time? When I did Engineering, I didn't have time to take a shower.
There was an HBS article about how both Microsoft and Facebook were started during Harvard reading week because putting all the smart people there and making them bored during time off resulted in productive projects. Trying to find it...
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#164Anyone have a link to the transcript that's not trapped inside scribd?
Really, just plain HTML would've been fine, but instead it's trapped in a PDF that's trapped inside Scribd!
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#165Is Sam consciously mirroring Mark's body language and style of dress, or is that just a weird coincidence?
The symmetry of the staging adds another uncanny element: the frontal camera angles and the identical chairs add on top of the similarity in dress. And you're right, the similar affect of the two -- the earnestness, the forward posture telegraphing intensity, the lack of humor -- all together, it is off-putting. Later in the interview, Sam leans back which seems to break this unpleasant symmetry.
The poor staging and lighting are responsible for most of what people are reacting negatively to in terms of body language and appearance. Terrible location for an interview for a number of reasons.
They do seem intensely earnest, but both of them always do in the interviews I've seen. I personally don't see that as a negative in this sort of context, however.
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
"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. H…
scientific discoveries and social network websites aren't in the same class and this reasoning doesn't apply to the latter.
scientific discoveries are the result of iterations upon leads and ideas, most of which require time spent doing lots of different things. Which I think is the heart of what Hamming is getting to.
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#167Refreshing 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…
Donating to a http://www.givewell.org/ recommended charity is probably a more scalable way to make the world a better place.
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#168Refreshing 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…
Okay so I don't agree with "don't actually commit to turning it into a company until it's working" part.
Airbnb example comes to mind where all the founders exhausted all their credit cards to fund user acquisitions and when that did not work kept trying other innovative means to keep the company afloat. If they would have followed this advice, there would not have been an AirBnB.
I agree with the part that says " entrepreneurs should do is pick something they care about" and keep pursuing it with perseverance. Because then companies like AirBnB are built. Just saying.
Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]
#169Refreshing 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.
The entrepreneur pits his willpower against the entropy of nature. Nature is huge and moves randomly, while the entrepreneur is small and moves purposefully.
There is definitely luck in nature's random movements. But the entrepreneur small purposeful movements add up over time and overcome nature.
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#170> 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…
I would like to see the rest of the confusion matrix.
Accuracy is great, but false positive are bad for everyone.