Aristotle

“In fact, like, you know, GPT found a proof to an unsolved Erdos problem, and our competitor Harmonic, you know, Aristotle you know, verified it.”

“Here's where almost everybody gets it wrong. Everybody focuses on the logos, the logic. That is almost never where you want to start. You have to be logical. But you want to address the person's emotional desires for what they want, and then their ethical or i…”

“In, in, in life, if you want to achieve a sense of meaning through love, you got to have more than deal friends. You got to have real friends.”

“Earlier this year, we actually achieved gold medal performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad, which is the world's most prestigious mathematics competition. These are like cracked high schoolers, like five people got perfect scores in the Internat…”

“All of the data that the vast majority of the data that trains Aristotle is actually data that we generate. It's not, you know, internet data.”

“I think there's going to be multiple models and it's really going to depend on the data that is used to feed them. So for example, one thing that's great about Aristotle, which is harmonics model is you've got mathematicians that are using it to ask very comp…”

“And now with Aristotle people are doing like systematic, they're going through them. And there was one that Aristotle solved fully autonomously. And then a bunch of others where Aristotle assisted in solving or converting into formal math language.”

“Well, Aristotle which is the name of the math model that, that the company builds, In a consumer form, which just people can use freely, got 10 out of the 12 problems of the Putnam correct, which is a lot more than I got on the Putnam.”

“Wouldn't it be far better to think of virtue as a verb? Aristotle says, like, how do you get better at playing the flute? It's by playing the flute. How do you become a more generous person? It's by doing more generous actions.”

“Steve Jobs, right before he died, he said his favorite quote of all time was that quote by Aristotle where he says, we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.”

“The expanding empire was based upon muscle rather than technology. Thanks to about fifteen million slaves who constituted one third of its population and whose life was summed up by Aristotle in four words, work, punishment, and food.”

“They don't do just one great thing. Or if they do one great thing, they do that one great thing for decades after decades. So I like that idea. It's like, we are what we repeatedly do. Aristotle didn't say, we're great if we do one great thing. It's like, no, …”

“If you want to aggregate every success book ever written, go read Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Like, there's not a whole lot happening that, that Aristotle, you know, didn't already write about in Nicomachean Ethics.”

“So basically in 1985 here, this is a quote from Steve Jobs. He goes, my hope is someday when the next Aristotle is alive, we can capture the underlying worldview of that Aristotle in a computer. And someday some student will not be only be able to read the wor…”

“We often think about strength of desire, and I think that's wrong. You know, my desire for that next drink is much stronger than my desire for refraining. But it's not simply the strength. It has to do with the whole picture. What else hangs in that picture th…”

“Analyze data, collect as much data, analyze it rigorously to determine causes of effects in this other part of the world. Imagine possibilities and choose the one for which the most compelling argument can be made. And he said, the job of human beings in that …”

“No new idea in the history of the world has been proven in advance analytically. Why? It's linked to what Aristotle said, right? You can't prove something new and different that hasn't happened yet, analytically. And most innovation processes in the world …”

“In one remarkable passage, Aristotle starts to muse on the old myths of Hephaestus, making these golden women to help him in his shop, and the traveling carts that Fed the gods and then returned, and a bank of bellows for his forge that actually could adjust t…”