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The Fire Next Time

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  • "God showed Noah by the rainbow sign / no more water, but fire next time." Our world is full of systems built on fairytales of eternal economic growth, that have been pushed beyond their breaking point. Maomao Hu explores how things are today and how they can be in the future with guests from diverse fields, in the hope we'll do better next time.
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  • Growing – Shikshya Khatiwada, The Fire Next Time #7

    Growing – Shikshya Khatiwada, The Fire Next Time #7
    Nov 9 2023
    I’ve always seen personal development and learning as my real job in life. I don’t even necessarily enjoy doing these things, but ultimately they equip me with the tools to continue to survive and push back my fear of death to manageable levels. So it was wonderful to chat on this topic with my dear friend Shikshya Khatiwada, who is one of the toughest, scrappiest, most adaptable people I know, and who has never, ever stopped evolving. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/XNYpuVNrEZc Shikshya was the project lead on the very first engagement of my career. That was a strange time in my life. I was fresh out of school and full of vigor to do, I don’t even know, fuckin something. It was at this time that I was tasked with building out an AI practice for the North American branch of a financial services management consulting firm of around a thousand people. I didn’t know shit about finance or consulting and barely knew anything about AI. In retrospect I think I overachieved spectacularly w
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    50 mins
  • What the future looks like – Amit Pradhan, The Fire Next Time #6

    What the future looks like – Amit Pradhan, The Fire Next Time #6
    Nov 6 2021
    A few weeks back, I was in SF and just missed Amit Pradhan, with whom I recorded a podcast on how to live in the future over a year ago. You can check it out here: https://youtu.be/SL82mmGnWEI I did manage to catch up with Jason Kende, and had a fascinating conversation with a brilliant friend of his. She told me how she had spent some time a few years ago to project how the world might change over the next 50 years in order to map out her own decisions. She really focused on the inevitability of the singularity, in this case defined as the emergence of exponentially superintelligent AI, the eventual creation of two classes of people based on their proximity to neural uplink technology, and the need to stay ahead of the curve. As some of you may remember, I went through a phase right before graduating college where I was unhealthily obsessed with AI safety. I was consumed with fear from ideas like the paperclip problem, where a superintelligent AI misinterprets a
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    1 hr and 2 mins
  • Empathy – Noah Klein, The Fire Next Time #5

    Empathy – Noah Klein, The Fire Next Time #5
    Sep 12 2020
    Empathy is something that’s always fascinated me. As a professional communicator and one of the most interesting people I know, I felt Noah Klein would have a lot to say on the topic, and I wasn’t disappointed. Here it is: https://youtu.be/BGu2LT1pLbQ I became interested in empathy around the same time I got hooked on AI. It takes a lot of empathy to work with machine learning based AIs. That might sound weird, but think about it this way. Training an ML model is like teaching a child, in that you can show them how it’s done, but you can’t guarantee they’ll listen to you. If your model isn’t producing what you want, you need to examine what you’re telling it (the data) and how it learns (the algorithm), just like you would a child. Through your conversation with the model, it starts to reflect your understanding of the world, and it comes alive.  I think that is part of the allure of AI, is that it talks back to us when we’re so utterly alone. Yes, there are plent
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    1 hr and 32 mins
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