technology

“Increasingly technologies are becoming so complicated that not only just does the every everyday person not fully understand them, but increasingly even the experts who work on them with a daily basis, or even the people who built them don't necessarily fully …”

“From an engineering perspective, we need to build into these technologies as well as something I think people just need to be mindful of looking for is trying to find ways of kind of glimpsing what's happening underneath the hood. Of a technology. And cause I …”

“People sometimes when they're confronted with technology, they don't understand or maybe they can't even understand is they often respond with one of two extremes of either fear in the face of the unknown or this reverential, almost like, religious sense of aw…”

“And so I think humans assisted by technology are probably the thing that we should be going for instead of trying to replace people so much. And I think we will see that effect significantly more.”

“And technology is one big confirmation bias engine.”

“Technology is designed to get us to respond, and the way to do that is to heighten emotions and hijack attention, and it does so with ferocious efficiency, and it's unrelenting.”

“Technology is for our brains, what sugar is for our gut. You know, our bodies have a natural craving for cheap calories and our brains have a natural craving for connection. And what sugar is doing to, you know, fatten us up because we weren't prepared for thi…”

“Right now, oddly enough, I feel like our technologists, they're looking at technology to be that.”

“But I do think that somebody born today We'll live that long because the technology is just going so quickly.”

“Media has a grudge against technology for, frankly, understandable reasons. Like everyone in media works for an institution that probably was negatively affected by tech.”

“This is the most powerful technology we've ever made. It will be abused. I'm sorry to say it will probably be used, will be weaponized, and those are always something to worry about.”

“The fantasy, the Hollywood fantasy of the lone villain on the mountaintop who has all this technology that works, and there's no IT support, it just works the first time, and they can gain control of these very complicated, that's just, it's like dragons. It's…”

“The way it works in the brain is, is it narrows your desires and wants to this one thing. That's what happens over time.”

“Two that are, I think, probably going to benefit a lot are technology and finance you know, where you're, You know, if you can make better financial decisions than competitors, you'll generate outsized returns, and that's why over the past, you know, 30 years,…”

“Do not define an objective which is designed to serve human beings without considering psychological factors, because you might be able to solve your problem very, very cheaply and efficiently by changing the psychology, not by changing the technology.”

“But other than that, the packaging of a film or a television show or a record or a book is no different than the packaging of an idea for a digital company, for a company in technology. It's all the same. The founder's the creator. The VCs, the money in tech, …”