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Arbesman: Humans will feel vicarious pride in AI-generated creations
“We are going to increasingly need to have a certain amount of nachos for our technologies, where these technologies might be doing things, might be doing activities that they might be making creations that are not our own, but we were the ones who ultimately p…”
Arbesman: Combining disparate ideas creates a defensible moat for startups
“So I think if a startup can bring together disparate ideas and carve out a niche and unique way of thinking and provide something of value to the world, that's something that is both differentiable and also a defensible moat because it's hard to jump across di…”
Arbesman: Combining specialists, T-shaped people, and generalists builds optimal organizations
“Bring all those different people together, specialists, teachers, individuals, people who are a little bit more general minded into an organization is going to make it the best version possible.”
Arbesman: Computational tools are necessary to navigate increasingly complex systems
“As the world around us is becoming more and more complex, it's becoming more difficult to fully understand either the technologies that we ourselves have built, or the systems that we're trying to understand in science, like a biological system, for example. A…”
Arbesman: Frontier tech is too broad to be treated as a single category
“While there might be certain similarities, I think frontier tech overall, and it's really this, it's very broad and diffuse space, and so in many ways I'm almost hesitant to group it all under kind of that umbrella term. And because the knowledge you need to d…”