The Ledger, every show
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Mack: The first self-made teenage billionaire will emerge by 2030
“There will be, thanks to AI and the teaching collapse, I think, I've always said for a while, and I think AI's now accelerated this, is that you'll see the first teenage, first self-made teenage billionaire by the end, by 2030.
And I think that, that makes me …”
Mack: The value of learning foreign languages will continuously decline with time
“I think learning a language is probably the skill of it is going to go down and down with time.”
George Mack: Stoic Negative Visualization Holds a Billion-Dollar Product Idea
“So I think negative visualization is a tool from stoicism, but I think there's probably a billion dollar idea in.”
Mack: US University Entrepreneurial Output Is 5x Higher Than UK
“There's a crazy stat around universities. So the top 10 universities in the world, I believe three are British and three are American. So when you actually look at our intellect, I think you could argue we're at least a smart, or at least the British sound sma…”
Mack: Meta-analysis shows dance therapy is the top treatment for depression
“The number one, however, significantly more than exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy, higher than yoga, higher than Tai Chi, was dancing. Dance therapy outperformed exercise significantly. Dance, According to this meta-analysis had the greatest impact in…”
Mack: Shannon and Thorp built shoe computer yielding 33% roulette edge
“Claude Shannon and Ed Thorpe, before the first ever mobile computer, they created the first ever mobile computer that they had in their shoe that would look at the, as the ball hit based off the probability, and they hacked roulette by, managed to outcompete t…”