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Rick Rubin claims AI vibe coding eliminates the need to learn programming
“You don't need to learn to code anymore. So that's the beauty of it. It democratizes it and makes it for everybody.”
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Rick Rubin claims a top neurosurgeon said half of medical textbooks are wrong
“I spoke to the top brain surgeon in the world, neurosurgeon, and I asked him, of the textbook that's currently being taught, In medical school today, how much of the information is accurate and how much of it is wrong? He said, at least 50% of it is wrong.”
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Rick Rubin argues AI cannot create true breakthroughs because it relies on reason
“Well, if the AI has reason, then it won't do what the human can do, because we're not reasonable. The all breakthrough come from what's, what's not reasonable, or what's not supposed to work. It's figuring out the thing that can't be done, and allowing it to b…”
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Rick Rubin argues creators must put the audience last to preserve authenticity
“I believe that the audience comes last, and the artists should be true to themselves, and that ultimately is in service to the audience. The audience is best served when they get the real version of you. If you start watering down the real version of you to do…”
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Rick Rubin: All Art Is Sampling and Remixing
“All art is a version of sampling and remixing. It doesn't start from zero.”
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Rick Rubin: AI Lacks an Independent Point of View
“The AI doesn't have a point of view, right? It's point of view is what you tell it the point of view is to be.”
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Rick Rubin calls vibe coding the punk rock of software development
“And wide coding is the same thing. It's the punk rock of coding.”
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Rick Rubin argues AI must believe in God to reach full potential
“I'm curious to see an AI that believes in God, and I believe that's the thing that we need for AI to be all that it can be.”
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Rick Rubin argues training AI to imitate humans limits its potential
“If we're, as humans, training AI to be more human, we're limiting it. The reason the AI was able to beat the Grandmaster was because it did its computer thing. It did the move that no human would do.”
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Rubin: People use AI to stop thinking rather than find truth
“So many people I know who use AI ask it questions and think that the results that they get back is the answer. And it seems like people are more interested in getting an answer that can allow them to stop thinking about the question than really finding out wha…”
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Rick Rubin argues pro wrestling is more honest than news media
“The reason I have the belief I have about wrestling is that wrestling, we know it's fake, and they're honest about it being fake. And so we get to suspend our disbelief and go along with this story. Whereas when you turn on the news, they make believe it's rea…”
Disclosure
Rick Rubin says being vegan for 23 years was killing him
“Look, I was a vegan for 23 years, and I was killing myself because I believed current belief.”
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Rick Rubin says he did not use AI to write his new book
“I'm not using AI and I'm not prompting.”
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Rick Rubin claims school never taught him anything useful in life
“I don't remember ever learning anything in school that was helpful to me at any point in my life.”
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Rubin: Software developers will design the future of humanity
“And the coders will likely be the people who are designing our future.”
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Rick Rubin says initial AI outputs are baselines for subversive art
“The first thing you get back will probably be the most obvious version. But when you see the most obvious version, it might give you ideas of what you could suggest to get something that's a little more interesting, maybe more subversive, which is what most ar…”
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Rubin: Poetry Is More Honest Than Prose Because Meaning Evolves
“And poetry can be more honest than prose. Because open in a way that the person who's taking it in, it's true of the way of code too. When you read it, if you read it now, and if you read it again in a year, it'll mean something different in a year.”
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Rubin: Creators must go to remote places to find unique inspiration
“Yeah, it feels like the monoculture is, is what's happening, and you have to go further into more remote places to find something interesting to inspire something new.”
Disclosure
Rick Rubin announces 'The Way of Code' book combining AI and Taoism
“The Way of Code is a book about vibe coding. And it's a book about vibe coding by way of a 3000 year old spiritual text called The Tao Te Ching written by Lao Tzu.”
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Anthropic's Jack Clark suggested turning Rubin's book into an interactive website
“It started as a book, and then I happened to meet, I was I invited Jack Clark onto the Tetragrammaton podcast, and I recorded with him. The episode's not out yet, but we recorded about three weeks ago, and I had just finished the book. And after the podcast, I…”
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Rubin: Artwork for 'The Way of Code' generates directly from book text
“The idea of originally the anthropic people said, could you give us a list of prompts to create the art? And I said, I think the art would be best created using the text of the book.”
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