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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]

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Post by jazzyk »

aresant wrote: post #27

The TL;DR of how Zuck wants to build FB's future w/his quotes: 1) "Connectivity, so getting everyone in the world on the Internet." 2) "The next one is AI. I think that that's just going to unlock so much potential in so many different domains." 3) "[The next computing platform] - I think that's going to be virtual reality and augmented reality." For all the flack that Zuck is getting in this thread he lays out a pre…

You call the above high-level, vague (and mostly obvious) predictions - "a precise vision"?

Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]

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Post by melling »

nostromo wrote: post #39
melling wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sigh, you've overlooked the fact that he built a hugely profitable business so now he can now throw money into "building the future". AI, VR, etc. Google was probably the 20th search engine. They make most of their money selling ads. Microsoft just rebuilt CP/M and bought many of their big apps. It's what you do after you build a great business that matters.

Making gobs of money and making the future are orthogonal though. Exxon makes tons of money but is likely irrelevant to the future.

"It's what you do after you build a great business that matters"

Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]

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Post by brlewis »

dkarapetyan wrote: post #23

Sigh. Mark Zuckerberg is not the fellow to listen to if you want to build the future. He's only managed to re-invent the past. AOL, MySpace, FriendFeed, and probably a few others I'm forgetting. edit: Folks are getting a bit philosophical so I'll clarify. There are better models to look up to if you want to invent the future: Bret Victor, Elon Musk, Alan Kay, Richard Feynman, etc. Each of those people did invent the…

I wish he had reinvented FriendFeed. Or maybe not because I'd be wasting too much time on Facebook.

Re: Sam Altman talks with Mark Zuckerberg about how to build the future [video]

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Post by tedmiston »

Refreshing 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 it, but don't actually commit to turning it into a company until it's working, and I think that...if you look at the data of the very best companies that have gotten built, I actually think a tremendous percent of them have been built that way and not from people who decided upfront that they wanted to start a company because you just get locked into some local minimum a lot of the time. A local maximum, sorry.

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