Ego

“Your ego is snappy, and it's loud, and it's more mental. It's like, you know, try, and you can feel that energy of clinging, like, It really wants something, whereas intuition, especially for me, feels much more bodily.”

“We're trying to build AI that feels really human with all of our positives and our flaws as well. AI that behaves in human-like ways and that exists across multiple virtual surfaces and eventually into robots as well.”

“We have our own behavior Turing test. It's sort of slightly different from existing Turing tests because Turing tests as our design are pretty binary. They're either human or not, but you know, the reality is that these things exist on a spectrum of humanness,…”

“If you give enough people a double-blind test of an AI, our AI specifically, controlling a Minecraft bot, and if over some, say, arbitrary threshold, 50, 60%, Actually get it wrong and think an AI is a human, you've passed a behavior turing test to some degree…”

“And we're shipping a product in March to hopefully demonstrate humanness.”

“I had my first VC meeting ever with a VC named Paige Vaughn. He runs Pear VC in Palo Alto, and the meeting went super well, and they offered a half a million dollar check the next day, and a few Days after that, I met with Adam Draper from BoostVC, and they al…”

“We actually pushed that out on Roblox. I think it was, yeah, it was December, 24. We had all these AI characters in a Roblox game. We just kind of put it out there. People could create AI characters, or they could just kind of hang out, and we had about a mi…”

“And we're actually going to be given, giving anyone's open claw, a voice, a conversation and internal life, the ability to embody itself across as many platforms as a supportable. And That's something we're cooking internally.”

“We have a partnership with a incredible robotics research lab based out of Singapore named Menlo Research. They do open source robots. We injected our personality model into a robot”

“In my mind, what ego is, you think that you're so good at something that you stop learning.”

“And if you start with the position that I am already wrong, I don't know everything. I'm getting something that I believe right now is off, but I'm trying to become less wrong. Then you're more in a position where you're trying to learn and less in a position …”

“There's this point where all the assets the person has turn into liabilities, and ego is usually like the swing vote in that.”

“I think it's so successful because it realizes that the ego, that part of our mind that's always threatened, always comparing, never satisfied, is our biggest challenge.”

“There's so many times that people feel the feeling of awe or wonder or curiosity is treated as a not very serious or childlike thing. And I just don't get that because it is the, that is how you are open to disconfirming evidence. It's how you see beyond the c…”

“Ego can drive you and it can also drive you to you know probably to probably some of the lowest points in your life. And so I think for me, it's been a lesson of, you know learning how to check the ego that I think you can get if you have any kind of level of …”

“When founders say they don't have an ego around being an entrepreneur, I generally think they are lying or they aren't self-aware enough to know that it is a large subconscious driver of their behavior.”

“The people who have the largest egos tend to get a massive benefit from going on a hallucinogenic trip with psilocybin. Because it allows your brain to separate your ego from your consciousness in a way that allows you to understand the world from a different …”

“Scrappiness is a helpful tool to drive creativity and progress, but scrappiness for scrappiness sake becomes more about your own ego And less about how it helps you and your business.”

“The easiest thing is just to check with somebody else who's not in fear because they will be able to see clearly when you can't.”

“People always have these false dichotomies. They say, well, you know, altruism, you have to have no ego. It's like, no, no, no. Actually, in fact, part of how I think about myself is great and unusual and differentiated, because by the way, differentiated is p…”

“That's what, in the book, I try to like, that's ego. It's like, ah, yeah, I'm gonna pass without studying. Yeah, that's the ego talking. Confidence is like, no, to me, confidence comes from work, you know, putting the work in,”

“And then you realize, well, what has been called ego doesn't need to be killed or fought or gotten rid of, or it's not who the little ego doesn't grow up to be the awakened Sense of self either. So it's a kind of a personality part, a functional part that has …”

“Many smart people who are good at life can, for a while, develop ego strengths and ego defenses, and kind of chug along and become successful, but usually they'll hit a wall at some point, whether it's in another area, like a relationship, or Become over, like…”

“The problem is not that we have an ego, and I am not one of those people who goes around saying, you gotta get rid of your ego, you gotta kill the ego. I think that's nuts. I think that, you know, even the people saying those kind of things have an ego. The pr…”

“Like nothing great would be accomplished without ego. We'd never try anything new. We'd never you know, endeavor to do anything because we would, we need to feel confident.”

“When you're looking at a situation, and you're feeling the anger, the frustration, things aren't going the way they're supposed to go, much of the time, you need to step back, and you need to look at yourself, and figure out why you are getting emotional, and …”

“On a 10 milligram dose you would see, tend to see more psychodynamic stuff, so internal exploration. People feeling more emotional, feeling that they maybe get some insight into different parts of their life. And often there's struggle because the amount of ps…”

“So I think the hard thing here is seeing the truth and to see the truth, you have to get your ego out of the way because your ego doesn't want to face the truth. So the smaller you can make your ego, the less condition you can make your reactions, the less des…”