Tim Urban

3 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 3, 2018 by Tim Urban · said 1 times in 1 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Jan 3, 2018 positive
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Urban: Convincing Smart People to Solve Big Problems Maximizes Impact
“If I can convince really smart people to turn their attention or their money or their time towards important things I think that that's about as big an impact as I could have as a human, because me going into it myself, that's one person.”
Tim Urban Jan 3, 2018 ▶ 2:30 Tim Urban of Wait But Why · Y Combinator
Jan 3, 2018 positive
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Urban: Bostrom's 'Superintelligence' Provides a Sufficient Foundational Base for AI
“One good book, like super intelligence in the case of AI, can give you a really, really great foundation right there, and then you can just kind of tack on information to that foundation or poke holes in that foundation, and then you end up with a solid unders…”
Tim Urban Jan 3, 2018 ▶ 29:41 Tim Urban of Wait But Why · Y Combinator
Jan 3, 2018 neutral
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Urban: Humanity Faces Impending Extinction or a Radical Utopian Paradigm Shift
“It's either going to be the coolest story for humans or it's the end. This is the, That is a, it is a 501 page book. And that's it. Or this is the beginning of like the new paradigm. We have a new BC AD situation. We have a BC, which is like before something t…”
Tim Urban Jan 3, 2018 ▶ 5:52 Tim Urban of Wait But Why · Y Combinator
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