Tim Urban on the path to AGI and trends in tech history | E1779
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
4.2 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2023
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Today’s show:
Tim Urban joins Jason to break down the road to AGI(15:38), people's trust in organizations(57:31), trends in tech throughout history(25:36), and so much more!
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Time stamps: (00:00) The creator of Wait But Why, Tim Urban joins Jason (1:49) Movies and social media creating dopamine addicts (11:16) Lemon.io - Get 15% off your first 4 weeks of developer time at https://Lemon.io/twist (12:36) Tim’s “Procrastination” Ted Talk and talks on AI (15:38) Tim’s book and his outlook on framing human history
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| 0:00.0 | 1994, 1995, my friend was like you have to come over that we were all going over to this one guy's house because he had, you know, he |
| 0:07.2 | Quote had AOL whatever that means. He was like I had to have he wasn't even called AOL. Yeah, he's like I have a |
| 0:12.1 | Merrick online. I was like I didn't even know what he was saying. And then we'd go over I mean all huddled around the |
| 0:17.4 | computer and you know for it was it was it cost money per hour and you know it was three to five dollars an hour in the |
| 0:23.2 | beginning. People don't forget. Yeah, we'll forget that. Yeah. And these like legendary chat rooms we would go on |
| 0:28.5 | that are now they're legendary. It's like the first thing and it was just randos and you're just there in |
| 0:34.4 | these chat rooms and it was so new. And I remember even I just remember even the concept that are like a |
| 0:40.0 | techie friend of mine when I was like I don't know 13 14 was like showing me how you could send in |
| 0:44.8 | like some primitive version of email and I thought I blew my mind that he could type something on his |
| 0:49.6 | computer across the town and it would appear on my computer. It seems so obvious now but that was like |
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| 1:45.7 | at superside.com slash list. Let me ask you what's your favorite couple of films of all time |
| 1:53.8 | a couple of movies that you love movies. Yeah cinema films movies pictures. I mean I love |
| 2:00.8 | back to the future. It's okay. It's like the best movie ever. I love shot our island. Oh |
| 2:08.1 | and that's a good poll. A good Scorsese poll. Very good film. I love a movie on the radar. I think |
| 2:14.5 | right to my favorite genre of movie is the kind of movie that when you finish it you immediately |
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