Albert Einstein

“The way we would test that is, you know, sometimes call it my Einstein test, which is, you know, can you train a system With the knowledge of cutoff of 19 oh one. And then will it come up with the, you know, what Einstein did in 19 oh five, including special r…”

“On the one hand, just predicting what comes next sounds like a pedestrian task, but if you really can predict the next word out of Einstein's mouth, you are at least as smart as Einstein.”

“Einstein was the exact opposite of a moral exemplar. Einstein was Stalinist. Like, Einstein was, like, a full-on, like, Einstein was pro-Stolic, like, not even just pro-communist, was actually, like, pro-Stalin, and Einstein thought, but, like, American democr…”

“A good test for it would be something like give one of these modern AI systems, a knowledge cutoff of 19 oh one and see if it can come up with special relativity like Einstein did in 19 oh five, right? If it's able to do that, then I think we're onto something…”

“The type of book by volume that I read and get the most joy from are autobiographies and memoirs. It is just like the ultimate cheat code to spend time with people that you respect are interested by or want to learn from. Like, could you imagine what it would …”

“And nature has given, given us lenses, extra lenses in space to magnify, ah, the more distant universe. And this is something that Einstein predicted, and we never thought it would be useful, ah, except in the most abstract way, but So now what we see is somet…”

“Einstein, unfortunately, and I know Einstein's, a lot of people consider Einstein to be a hero, not just scientifically, but morally, and the movie paints him as a, both a scientific and a moral hero, which is kind of the received wisdom. A little bit of an is…”

“And unfortunately, you know, the history of this is, is that, you know, Einstein and Oppenheimer and others basically chose to ignore the information and they chose to buy into a system sort of past the point that, you know, for at least for people as smart as…”

“And, you know, of course, sitting here today, at least, Ben and I would say that von Neumann, like, had a clearer view of politics than, you know, than Oppenheimer or Einstein did.”

“And what amazed me when I saw that in Leonardo's notebooks was boom, it's in Einstein's notebooks. He writes, why is the sky blue? They both do experiments. Leonardo sprays water in the air and shines light through it. Einstein, you know, is using Lord Rayleig…”

“The thing that's scarce today are people who are kind of micro influencers to others Giving them positive feedback and catalyzing this loop that ends up creating everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Elon Musk to, you know, Ramanujan or Albert Einstein.”

“There are really only two ways you can change someone's thinking. You can either change the questions that person asks, or you can provide them with more inspired answers. Those are really only two levers.”

“In very recent years, we found out that entanglement and Einstein-Rosen bridges are the same thing. That, in particular, an example would be if you have two black holes. Black holes have all kinds of internal structure to them. They're quantum mechanical objec…”

“I firmly believe that for every Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, or Elon Musk, there are thousands more that never fully bloom, that never fully blossom, and become their fully realized version of themselves”