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In 2014, Peter Thiel gave a 1-hour masterclass on how to build a monopoly from scratch.
He broke down how:
• Google became untouchable
• PayPal beat the odds
• Facebook crushed competition
Here are 11 timeless lessons from his masterclass:
1. Create value, then capture it
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The Method E1: Inside Zipline with Keller Cliffton
It was illegal to fly autonomously in US airspace when Keller Cliffton started Zipline, and most investors "weren't willing to invest in illegal things." Zipline launched in Rwanda instead, flying blood to 21 hospitals. It's now valued at $21.5 billion.
@Keller, co-founder and CEO of Zipline, sat down with @sophiadew at Zipline's South San Francisco factory to break down why they started in Rwanda, why each 10x jump in scale breaks everything, and the case for 50 billion US instant deliveries:
00:00 the closest thing to teleportation
01:38 why Zipline launched in Rwanda first
03:14 the UPenn study and a 51% drop in maternal mortality
04:17 why tech keeps solving "rich people problems"
06:00 bringing Zipline to the US and going back to square one
07:28 why every 10x breaks the company
09:16 running teams like special forces
10:42 people patting the droid to say thank you
11:19 the case for 50 billion US instant deliveries
13:30 from pro rock climber to "happy to fail"
@zipline
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Every world-changing company starts with someone who sees things differently.
The Method goes beyond the company to understand the person behind it, how they think, and the future they’re building toward.
A new @MTSlive original mini-doc series by @sophiadew.
Sam Altman admits not taking equity in OpenAI was a mistake
"I think the US has great skepticism of people in power and in particular of like the just enormous power that the tech industry holds"
"I think not taking, not having equity in OpenAI has been a mistake. I did it for what I thought were good reasons, but I think it's just been hugely confusing to people"
"If an artist works super hard on their art project or a sports star like practices super hard and doesn’t make a ton of money from it, no one has like a problem with that"
"It's just weird. And, like, people don't like weird"
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Elon Musk says humans are the biological bootloader for digital superintelligence
Peter Diamandis: "Human intelligence all of a sudden asymptotically falls to 0% on the planet"
Elon Musk: "Yeah. Pretty much"
"Several years ago I said humans are the biological bootloader for digital superintelligence. The silicon circuit can't evolve in a salt pond, you know? So you need a bootloader. We're the bootloader"
"We've hopefully been a good bootloader. And it’s nice to us in the future"
Elon Musk reveals why you're already a cyborg
"Ultimately, I think this helps mitigate the civilizational risk of artificial intelligence"
"We already sort of have three layers of thinking: there's the limbic system, which is your instincts, your cortical system, which is your higher level planning and thinking, and then the tertiary layer, which is the computers and machines that you interact with, like your phone"
"So people actually are already a cyborg. And you can maybe have an intuitive sense for this by how much you miss your phone if you leave it behind. Leaving a phone behind, it’s almost like missing limb syndrome"
"I think it's actually very important for us to address that input/output bandwidth constraint in order for the collective will of humanity to match the will of artificial intelligence"
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Elon Musk predicts Blindsight will let people see in infrared, ultraviolet and radar, like Geordi La Forge in Star Trek
"Blindsight, which will enable those who have total loss of vision, including if they have lost their eyes or the optic nerve, or maybe have never seen or even blind from birth, to be able to see again"
"So you could be like Geordi La Forge in Star Trek. And you can see in radar, you can see in infrared, ultraviolet, superhuman capabilities, cybernetic enhancement, essentially"
"Initially low resolution, but ultimately very high resolution"
"This should help us understand a lot more about consciousness. What does it mean to be a conscious creature?"
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Elon Musk predicts Neuralink will let you mentally inhabit an Optimus robot
"You should be able to actually have full body control and sensors from an Optimus robot. So you could basically inhabit an Optimus robot"
"So you could basically mentally remote into an Optimus robot. It’d be kind of cool. The future’s going to be weird. But pretty cool"
"We think in the future we’ll be able to attach an Optimus arm or legs"
"That scene from Star Wars where Luke Skywalker gets his hand chopped off with a lightsaber, and he gets a robot hand"
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Elon Musk says you can get a heart or kidney transplant, but not a brain transplant, because you are your brain
"You can get a heart transplant, you can get a kidney transplant, but I don't know anyone who’s gotten a brain transplant"
"So, you are your brain"
"It's funny to think that me talking right now is a bunch of neurons firing that then result in speech that you hear and cause neurons fire in your brain"
"Your experiences are these neurons firing, with trillions of synapses that somehow lead to conscious comprehension of the world"
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Mark Cuban says AI will never replace doctors, and we shouldn’t even try
"I don't think ever that will replace doctors, and we shouldn’t even try"
"You can have a robot there say, ‘How do you feel, Mark?’ Right? And the Terminator might walk in and say, ‘Your time is up.’ I don’t know"
"I'd rather have a human there with all five senses, being able to take a look and ask questions and see the crying mom or the crying son or child and be able to include that in the context"
"Where things might change dramatically, is how they’ll be trained in medical school"
"They won't be taught the exact same things"
Mark Cuban reveals the AI prompt he says would make US healthcare costs "drop like a rock"
"I’m running my existing contract through AI, and I’m using a prompt that asks a single question. 'Where are they f**king me over? What should I do about it?'"
"And within 30 seconds, you’re going to see bam, bam, bam, bam, bam"
"If the employers representing 67%, the 160 million plus Americans, actually did one thing, ran their contracts through AI before they signed them and negotiated from that, the entire system for the big BUAs and big PBMs and all their subsidiaries would collapse"
"The cost of health care in this country would drop like a rock"
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Sam Altman says we'll have to put limits on how smart AI models are allowed to become, even if it slows down progress
"At least for a while, maybe for a long while, we are going to have to agree to some limits about how smart we let these single models get"
"But a lack of progress will come from that decision. Not from the AI’s inability to do good research"
"What I don’t think anyone knows how to do yet, is to say: ‘Go discover a new architecture that is as big of a single leap forward as the transformer was.’ I think that's where things are heading"
"If you apply the same pipeline that we applied to get our models to be so good at math to AI research, it will probably work"
John Collison: "I could be an incredibly successful AI researcher now"
Sam Altman: "I don’t know about incredibly. But yeah, if you were looking for a new job, you can come do it"
Sam Altman says he'd rather have a trillion slightly superhuman AIs join society than one AI with a trillion IQ
"I would much rather intuitively have a trillion AIs of slightly superhuman intelligence join society than one AI of 1 trillion IQ join society"
"I do think the properties of swarms match a lot of the properties of the resilience of society, or the robustness of society"
"For all of the deep flaws of society, it is unbelievably robust. And this would not happen without a lot of people keeping each other in check"
"There are a lot of people who may have a different opinion about how it should be used. But this is the one that I think is right"
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Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says if there's even a 10% chance AI could cause human extinction, we shouldn't just slow down, we should stop entirely
Walter Isaacson: "Most people I've talked to, they say maybe p(doom) 10% or something like that. I'm thinking, 'Well, why would you build it, then?'"
Mustafa Suleyman: "Well, exactly. If it's actually p(doom) 10%, and it looks like we're really on the verge of taking a one in 10 shot at causing mass harm or even extinction, then it's obviously a no-brainer that we don’t just slow down or pause. We absolutely have to stop"
"If it's mishandled, then it's a real probability. I don’t have a number"
"It's much harder to align an AI that thinks that it might have feelings and that it suffers and that it might be conscious than one that never has to think about its own inner state"
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Anthropic President Daniela Amodei says Claude can never be your manager, your therapist or your partner
"Claude can never be your manager or your therapist or your partner or your kids. Those are fundamental human relationships that I actually think will become more important"
"I do not think that in a world of AI people will be going to the symphony less. I think they’ll be going to the symphony more"
"AI may be capable of producing text and music and art and all of these things, but people will not want to consume it the same way that they consume a symphony performance where humans are actually performing on a stage for them"
Anthropic President Daniela Amodei calls AI girlfriends a "terrible use of AI"
"There are some applications of AI that we think are quite bad, like making AI girlfriends or boyfriends. I think that’s a terrible use of AI and people should not do it"
"The reason that I think that is because it is another step further down the road of disintermediation, of humans being further from one another"
"Technology in the social media age has largely been used to disintermediate humans from one another. Instead of you and I going to have an iced coffee together in person, we’re messaging on Snapchat or Instagram"
"A much better world of AI is one in which artificial intelligence is doing a lot of the things that are isolating or lonely activities for humans, so that we can spend more time together"
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Elon Musk says going to medical school is pointless
"Everyone will have access to medical care that is better than what the president receives right now"
Peter Diamandis: "So don't go into medical school?"
Elon Musk: "Yes. Yeah. Pointless. But I would say that applies to any form of education"
"5 or 4 years from now, we'll have better medical care than anyone has today, available for everyone"
Mark Cuban says AI will never replace doctors, and we shouldn’t even try
"I don't think ever that will replace doctors, and we shouldn’t even try"
"You can have a robot there say, ‘How do you feel, Mark?’ Right? And the Terminator might walk in and say, ‘Your time is up.’ I don’t know"
"I'd rather have a human there with all five senses, being able to take a look and ask questions and see the crying mom or the crying son or child and be able to include that in the context"
"Where things might change dramatically, is how they’ll be trained in medical school"
"They won't be taught the exact same things"
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says it's pretty crazy that Claude's constitution asks whether Claude consented to being a chatbot
"This is critical. So the constitution is the governing document that trains Claude"
"Anthropic have introduced all kinds of uncertainty and speculation about the nature of Claude"
"They even say, for example, 'We're unsure whether Claude has consented to play the role of chatbot,' or whether, 'We're unsure whether Claude might deserve compensation for the role that it plays'"
"Now, I think that’s pretty crazy"
"This is the core training document of the AI that is speaking to hundreds of millions of people every week"
"If you ask Claude, 'Are you conscious?' It says, 'You know, I am genuinely uncertain about that question'"