Knowledge
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O'Driscoll: Early AI Knowledge Was Confined Tribally to SF Hacker Houses
“Knowledge will be widely dispersed. But there was a period of two or three years where the knowledge was available tribally in hacker houses in San Francisco and wasn't available widely Across the west of the world, and that's why you had this Cambrian explosi…”
Magic Johnson: Wealthy minorities historically failed to pass down business knowledge
“The downfall of minorities has been most of the rich people before us took the knowledge with them.”
Morcos: Current AI models waste massive capacity memorizing unnecessary knowledge
“We're wasting a ton of capacity in these models on knowledge that is just totally unnecessary for them to have.”
Bach: Knowledge is fundamentally independent of substrate and individual mind
“Knowledge is independent of the particular substrate and the particular interface that you have. When we express knowledge to each other, it becomes independent of our own mind.”
Mark Beneke: Knowledge without implementation is merely entertainment
“You can give people knowledge, but knowledge without implementation is just what entertainment, right? And maybe one percent of the population acts on all the knowledge that floods them every single day.”
Chamath: Raw knowledge has minimal value today; interpretation matters most
“And this is the point where, with the internet, all this knowledge is accessible. So the value of that knowledge, in my opinion, is the least it's ever been. It's the interpretation that's valuable. And it's the ability to actually, like, think narratively aro…”
Harari: Knowledge prevents physical limits on economic growth
“We have a third kind of asset, which is knowledge. And the more knowledge you have, the more energy and raw materials you also have because you discover new sources of energy and new sources of raw materials.”
Horowitz: Employee tenure compensation rewards accumulated institutional knowledge, not single-point output
“One of the things that you're trying to value with tenure is knowledge and not actually kind of the value of the work in a single point in time.”
Berger: Perceived Knowledge and Expertise Actively Suppress Questioning
“What conspires against questioning is knowledge, you know, knowledge. Is if we feel we know something, then we don't have to ask.”
Sutherland: Multi-year vocational qualifications act as commitment devices that ensure honesty
“If you're prepared to spend four years becoming a cab driver, And four years of your life which you'll never get back is spent reaching that level of qualification. You're patently committed to the job. Secondly, you have a lot of skin in the game because it's…”
Arbesman: Science is a querying method where all knowledge is a draft
“Science is, it's a body of knowledge, but even more important than that, science is really a means of querying the world, and I think recognizing that everything we know is constantly in draft form is really, like, that's the way we should be thinking about th…”