Science Fiction

“You look at any advanced civilization in science fiction, there's two twin pillar technology. One's AGI in some form, and the other is simulation.”

“On the upside though, reading science fiction, Buy a technologist, engineers, and so on. That's how we learn to invent the future.”

“Elon mostly just reads science fiction and says the things that are in it.”

“The job of technologists is not to just simply read science fiction and say, well, that's cool. Let's build that. That's easy, right? Like science fiction goes way out in the future, has cool ideas, And the JV version of product management or building is you'r…”

“At this time in history, science fiction was in, in films, was a dead genre.”

“Fiction, like science fiction should be a guide for how we think about building reality.”

“I think it's not just that it's decreased, but that it's swapped around. And so now science fiction is trailing behind. Like things are happening faster than science fiction can really anticipate them, at least in kind of digital. When you're talking about big…”

“Does it have a negative effect? Absolutely. And certainly if you are suffering from some form of confirmation bias, it reiterates that confirmation or that bias.”

“So I think some of the best business books, believe it or not, are science fiction books.”

“I don't think science fiction does predict the future. I think it can make the future, which is exciting. But I think that the idea that the future is predictable is itself horrifically fatalistic, right?”

“You could call ancient mythology cultural dreams or ancient thought experiments. They're basically the very first science fictions before science.”

“This is why science fiction is such an important kind of cognitive tool because you run these alternate scenarios of the future and they help us kind of imagine what direction we should be steering in, even if they're made up stories.”

“I think people like Cory Doctorow Annalee Newitz here in San Francisco is amazing science fiction writer. They don't write dystopias. They don't write those sort of, you know, naive Panglossian features either.”

“The best definition of a mental model is a world in the sense of science fiction or fantasy, right? So you've got, say, a universe like the Harry Potter universe or the Lord of the Ring universe, and so there's the world, and then there's the story that's told…”

“I've caught myself looking to science fiction much more than to, you know, research or academia when it comes to new technology advances.”

“Like, any investor who doesn't like science fiction, I think, should not be in the investing game.”