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Aza Raskin

Co-Founder & President, Earth Species Project. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Raskin is widely known as the inventor of the infinite scroll interface, former Creative Lead for Firefox, and a key voice in the documentary The Social Dilemma. Through the Earth Species Project, he leads nonprofit open-source machine learning research aimed at decoding and translating non-human animal communication.

What they said7 Shows1

Everything Aza Raskin said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

MASTERS OF SCALE Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2030

Raskin: ESP will have capability to contact non-human cultures within six years

“In the next six years we will make contact or have the technical capability of making contact with these thirty four million year old cultures.”

Aza Raskin Jul 9, 2024 ▶ 15:21 Reid Hoffman & Aza Raskin on translating animal speech with AI | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Insight

Raskin: Winning the social media race against China yielded societal polarization

“You don't want to let your rivals define the nature of the race you're in. Like, we beat China to social media, which means we beat China to sort of a misinformed, polarized society with mental health issues. We, instead, what we want to do is figure out how d…”

Aza Raskin Jul 9, 2024 ▶ 14:39 Reid Hoffman & Aza Raskin on translating animal speech with AI | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Insight

Raskin: AI Embedding Spaces Share a Universal Geometric Shape Across Languages

“The core insight is that you could build a shape that represents English, a shape that represents German, and just rotate one shape on top of the other to do translation. And even though there are words in one that don't exist in the other, the point which is …”

Aza Raskin Jul 9, 2024 ▶ 6:34 Reid Hoffman & Aza Raskin on translating animal speech with AI | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Contradicted

Raskin: Democrats overestimate Republican anti-Muslim sentiment by 70 points

“If you ask Democrats what percentage of Republicans think all Muslims are bad, Democrats will estimate it's like 85%, but if you actually ask Republicans, it's less than 15%,”

Aza Raskin Jul 9, 2024 ▶ 9:50 Reid Hoffman & Aza Raskin on translating animal speech with AI | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Insight

Raskin: US should allocate 1% of AI spending to governance

“If we as a US are gonna spend a trillion dollars in the next couple years on AI capabilities, shouldn't we at least be spending one percent of that on upgrading governance itself? Like, the US was founded on the idea that a group of people could come together,…”

Aza Raskin Jul 9, 2024 ▶ 13:25 Reid Hoffman & Aza Raskin on translating animal speech with AI | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Contradicted

Raskin: Whales have transmitted vocal culture for 34 million years

“It turns out whales have been passing down culture for like Thirty-four million years, vocally. Human beings have been doing it for what, like a 100,300 thousand? So this is a culture that has lasted longer, 85 times longer than our entire species.”

Aza Raskin Jul 9, 2024 ▶ 2:02 Reid Hoffman & Aza Raskin on translating animal speech with AI | Masters of Scale

MASTERS OF SCALE Assertion Supported

Raskin: Parrots teach chicks unique names used for life

“Parrot parents. Will lean over for the first week and a half of their chicks life and whisper a unique name into their ear until they can babble, babble, until they get it right. And they will use that unique name for the rest of their life.”

Aza Raskin Jul 9, 2024 ▶ 3:02 Reid Hoffman & Aza Raskin on translating animal speech with AI | Masters of Scale

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Aza's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
MASTERS OF SCALELEDGER	Co-Founder & President, Earth Species Project	1	7	33% 1/3	full record on Masters of Scale →