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Hastings: Teachers will stop instructing and evolve into social-emotional motivators as AI teaches
“Well, the teacher will evolve to be a little more like a social worker and a motivator so they're not actually giving the instruction in that long-term case. All the AI is doing that, and they're doing the social emotional learning.”
Hastings admits Netflix relied on creative instinct to greenlight House of Cards
“You know, there's some data, but I would say that's raw. It's instinct that the thing you've got a partial script, you've got some casting, and you have to guess how good is that show going to be. So to figure out what it's going to comp against in terms of yo…”
Hastings: Complete K-12 and university education will be available on phones via AI within a decade
“So in the next 10 years, you'll be able to have a complete K-twelve and probably university education. With AI on a phone or tablet that will be really changed learning.”
Hastings: Palo Alto has no charter schools while East Palo Alto has several
“So for example, in Palo Alto, California, there's no charter schools. But in East Palo Alto, which is quite poor, right next door, there's a bunch of charter schools, because the parents are desperate for change in options.”
Hastings: Gates-Funded GMO Cassava Delivers 5 to 10x Crop Yield in Trials
“The plants with this genetic modification don't get the virus, and instead of getting a 10 or 20% yield that a farmer gets, because the virus has taken 80 or 90%, they get, you know, a 95% yield, so it's like a five or 10 times more food produced, ok?”
Hastings: Epic and Ikon sell around two million ski passes each
“They sell, you know, two million passes a piece. They generate, you know, a lot of the visitation. And they're becoming bigger and bigger.”
Hastings: Netflix Accounts for Only 5% to 10% of TV Viewing
“And so Netflix earns, you know, depending, depending on the country, like five to 10% of television viewing.”
Hastings: Squid Game's Global Hit Status Was a Complete Surprise to Netflix
“So we knew Squid Game would be big in Korea, or we highly suspected it would be. But the fact that it took off globally you know, was a surprise to us, and we'd been doing it for 20 years.”