THE BIG AI RESET: Get AHEAD Of 99% Of People (Prepare Now) | Stephen Wolfram

As requested by many of you, here are the timestamps for the episode: if something important is missing, please let me know. [00:00] Introduction [01:12] Going from Highschool at 16 to PhD by 20 years old [15:27] The story of starting Wolfram Research (and why he decided to bootstrap the company) [21:23] Thinking in first principles [26:31] Lessons learned on people management and leadership [31:40] How to be extraordinary and position yourself for success [33:00] What Wolfram's main skills are [41:15] What to look for in co-founders [48:00] How Wolfram makes big irreversible decisions [59:05] Elon Musk's improvement process (and how Stephen thinks about product design, and decision making framework) [1:15:20] Wolfram's relationship with money [1:25:00] Using first principles to build wealth [1:35:30] Artificial Intelligence [1:42:00] How close are we to achieving AGI (and what the future could look like with AI)

I gotta try this prompt suffix: "Answer as if you were Wolfram"

Timestamps are your friend.

I think it is great for young people to have access to content like this. When I was their age, there was a choice between the news and Gilligan's Island.

Steven Wolfram's background and education (0:01 - 12:12) Building his first big software system (12:13 - 19:25) Building a company and decision making (14:23 - 21:22) Thinking in first principles (21:23 - 26:24) Building a framework to solve problems (26:25 - 32:42) The long view of history (32:43 - 41:49) Optimism for the future (41:50 - 51:49)

Wolfram is the GOAT, crazy how few views this has, timestamps would help me watch this

Really good interview with a surprisingly down-to-earth yet titanic intellect. I really appreciate that you allowed your guest to speak at length without interrupting him. Good relevant questions. Also appreciate that you did not interject your own ideas/beliefs about the varying subjects (as so many other interviewers seem compelled to do).

There needs to be a three way conversation between John Vervaeke, Michael Levin and Stephen Wolfram. This would be a chance to corellate Wolframs observer theory with Vervaeke's take on cognitive science and Levin's ideas about consciousness. All three could benefit from this, and all three are the brightest public intellectual minds out there. Additionally there could be interesting cross pollination between constructor theory and Wolfram's take on causal sets.

Great insight that he graduated from Eton, and his realization over time that not every kid is being taught how to rule the world. I love the fact that instead of pursuing politics, he chose science. And also his acknowledgment with time that the same education could be expanded for the benefit of humanity. Open source, not closed.

Really good video. But title PREPARE NOW is total click BAIT of which you should be ashamed. You are better than this.

At 1:36:36 we get the absolute epitomy of this great great scientist's life path: How do tou formalize ideas. How do you turn ideas into reality as automated as possible? I would say that this is where the big take home starts of this video.

Asking the right questions to solve the real problems ignored by the conventional wisdom (the 99%) is the key in this talk.

Always great to hear from Stephen. He loves to say "things" and "stuff". He is a metaphysician to the core!

Fabulous point at 1:52:28, when Stephen says he can't claim that wanting to not be the average of the average is more virtuous than wanting to maintain what exists. It seems that the fundamental ontology at work in this segment is keeping that which maintains the ability for one to choose between preserving what is or venturing off to discover a new path.

Good interview, different than the other interviews of Wolfram. Timestamps bro, figure it out.

One of the greatest mind of our time. Excellent interview. ! Thanks for share.

I'm halfway through and my mind is already blown. Great interview!

Great discussion - thank you... Feynman was also famous for approaching even very complex problems from very basic starting points...

Here is a challenge to Steven Wolfram: The ultimate Turing Test of AI is to write a novel that a human reader, once he/she started reading it, cannot put down, and once finished, cannot forget. After automating math (sort of), I would challenge you to automate fiction writing.

the biggest project is the physic's project .. thank you for this .. i have listened to many an interview about Stephen .. and yours is one of the better one's ..