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David Deutsch: Knowledge Creation and The Human Race

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I interview David Deutsch, physicist and author of The Beginning of Infinity.

Background

Naval: My goal isn’t to do yet another podcast with David Deutsch. There are plenty of those. I would love to tease out some of the very counterintuitive learnings, put them down canonically in such a way that future generations can benefit from them, and make sure that none of this is lost. 

Your work has been incredibly influential for me. I carry a copy of The Beginning of Infinity or The Fabric of Reality with me wherever I go. I’m still reading these same books after two years, trying to absorb them into my worldview, and I learn something new from them every day. There’s a lot of counterintuitive things in there. You’re skewering a lot of sacred dogmas. Sometimes you do it in passing with a single sentence that takes me weeks to unpack properly.

This recording is not for the philosophers, and it’s not for the physicists. This is for the layman, the average person. We want to introduce them to the principles of optimism, The Beginning of Infinity, what sustainability means, and anthropomorphic delusions.

As an example, you overturn induction as a way of forming new scientific theories. That’s this idea that repeated observation is what leads you to the creation of new knowledge—and that’s not the case at all. This came from Popper, but you built upon it. You talk about how humans are very different and exceptional (Read more...)

Talking AI with AI

by Reid Hoffman
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Today we’re launching Fireside Chatbots, a special podcast miniseries running as part of Greymatter’s Intelligent Future series focused on artificial intelligence.

In this new series, I’m going to be talking about AI and the massive positive impact I believe it’s going to have on all facets of society.

But I’m not just going to be talking about AI – I’m going to be talking with AI.

In this podcast, my guest is ChatGPT, a large language model created by OpenAI, an organization whose Board of Directors I serve on.

ChatGPT is not human and not conscious. It does not reason like we reason, but there are interesting parallels between how it works and we work, since it is trained on a huge amount of human data from the internet.

And, ChatGPT does have an uncanny ability to speak coherently and informatively on a huge range of subjects, because it’s been trained on a massive corpus of text from the internet, then fine-tuned on examples of human dialogue.

Over the last decade or so, we’ve seen an amazing resurgence in Artificial Intelligence. A lot of it started with DeepMind and the neural networks it trained to play classic arcade games like Pong and Breakout, and then its development of even more powerful algorithms like AlphaZero, which it created to master far more complex games like Go and Chess.

As DeepMind has continued to contribute many additional stunning results, including AlphaFold for protein folding, other organizations started making incredible progress too. (Read more...)

2023 Predictions & How Founders Should Navigate The Near Future

by MPD
This post is by MPD from @MPD - Medium

With another year almost in the books, we take a look back at some of the notable events and lessons learned in 2022 + discuss our predictions for 2023 and suggest ways founders can navigate the near future.

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*DISCLAIMER*

Interplay Family Office LLC (“Interplay”) is registered as an investment adviser with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Registration of an investment adviser does not imply any level of skill or training. Information about the qualifications and business practices of Interplay is available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov._ Interplay only transacts business in states where it is properly registered or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements. Offering of asset management services through Interplay is pursuant to an investment advisory agreement. The views expressed in this podcast/vodcast are subject to change based on market and other conditions. The podcast/vodcast may contain certain statements that may be deemed forward looking statements. Please note that any such statements are not guarantees of any future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected. Any projections, market outlooks, or estimates are based upon certain assumptions and should not be construed as indicative of actual events that will occur. Information communicated during the podcast/vodcast does not involve the rendering of personalized investment advice but is limited to the dissemination of general market information. (Read more...)

Is AI going to replace us, Co-Founder relationship management, China’s updated Covid policy, and…

by MPD
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Is AI going to replace us, Co-Founder relationship management, China’s updated Covid policy, and Russian oil price cap

Here’s what we cover during this week’s Partner Meeting segments:

  • Open AI’s ChatGPT and what it means for tech + society
  • Startup Tip of the Week: Co-Founder relationship management
  • US domestic economic data
  • China’s updated Covid policy
  • Russian oil price cap and whether or not it will work

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Listen via your preferred platform here.

*DISCLAIMER*

Interplay Family Office LLC (“Interplay”) is registered as an investment adviser with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Registration of an investment adviser does not imply any level of skill or training. Information about the qualifications and business practices of Interplay is available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov._ Interplay only transacts business in states where it is properly registered or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements. Offering of asset management services through Interplay is pursuant to an investment advisory agreement. The views expressed in this podcast/vodcast are subject to change based on market and other conditions. The podcast/vodcast may contain certain statements that may be deemed forward looking statements. Please note that any such statements are not guarantees of any future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected. Any projections, market outlooks, or estimates are based upon certain assumptions and should not be construed as indicative of actual (Read more...)

Partner Meeting: Are tech layoffs an indicator of what’s to come, CPI data that’s not bad news, FTX…

by MPD
This post is by MPD from @MPD - Medium

Partner Meeting: Are tech layoffs an indicator of what’s to come, CPI data that’s not bad news, FTX and the ensuing crypto mayhem, and how to build marketplaces

On this week’s Partner Meeting episode we cover the following topics:

  • Recent tech layoffs and whether or not it’s an indicator for what’s to come
  • CPI data that suggests inflation is slowing
  • The FTX debacle and what that means for crypto
  • Business Lesson: building marketplaces

Listen via your preferred platform here.

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*DISCLAIMER*

Interplay Family Office LLC (“Interplay”) is registered as an investment adviser with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Registration of an investment adviser does not imply any level of skill or training. Information about the qualifications and business practices of Interplay is available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov._ Interplay only transacts business in states where it is properly registered or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements. Offering of asset management services through Interplay is pursuant to an investment advisory agreement.The views expressed in this podcast/vodcast are subject to change based on market and other conditions. The podcast/vodcast may contain certain statements that may be deemed forward looking statements. Please note that any such statements are not guarantees of any future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected. Any projections, market outlooks, or estimates are based upon certain assumptions and (Read more...)

Partner Meeting: Are tech layoffs an indicator of what’s to come, CPI data that’s not bad news, FTX…

by MPD
This post is by MPD from @MPD - Medium

Partner Meeting: Are tech layoffs an indicator of what’s to come, CPI data that’s not bad news, FTX and the ensuing crypto mayhem, and how to build marketplaces

On this week’s Partner Meeting episode we cover the following topics:

  • Recent tech layoffs and whether or not it’s an indicator for what’s to come
  • CPI data that suggests inflation is slowing
  • The FTX debacle and what that means for crypto
  • Business Lesson: building marketplaces

Listen via your preferred platform here.

Show Links:

*DISCLAIMER*

Interplay Family Office LLC (“Interplay”) is registered as an investment adviser with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). Registration of an investment adviser does not imply any level of skill or training. Information about the qualifications and business practices of Interplay is available on the SEC’s website at www.adviserinfo.sec.gov._ Interplay only transacts business in states where it is properly registered or is excluded or exempted from registration requirements. Offering of asset management services through Interplay is pursuant to an investment advisory agreement.The views expressed in this podcast/vodcast are subject to change based on market and other conditions. The podcast/vodcast may contain certain statements that may be deemed forward looking statements. Please note that any such statements are not guarantees of any future performance and actual results or developments may differ materially from those projected. Any projections, market outlooks, or estimates are based upon certain assumptions and (Read more...)

Doing Good Can Make You Money with Tensie Whelan, Director of NYU Stern Center for Sustainable…

by MPD
This post is by MPD from @MPD - Medium

Doing Good Can Make You Money with Tensie Whelan, Director of NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business

On this week’s guest episode I chat with Tensie Whelan, a Clinical Professor of Business and Society and the Director of NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business.

Many people think that sustainability and profits don’t align, but Tensie takes us through how they can by connecting the financial sustainability of a business to the social and environmental sustainability of a business’s core focus. She believes companies should make money by doing better.

She also runs through the flaws of the broader ESG framework, suggesting ways to improve it.

Before she built the Center for Sustainable Business at NYU Stern, Tensie ran the Rainforest Alliance — a multinational non-profit designed to help conserve rainforests. We dive into that issue and touch on ways to tackle it as well.

These are some fascinating and important topics that I think every entrepreneur should think about. I hope you enjoy it.

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The Fintech VC Powerhouse & Penetrating the LATAM Market with Mike Packer of QED Investors

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On this week’s guest episode, I sit down with Mike Packer, Partner at QED Investors.

QED is one of the big dogs in FinTech investing. They have roughly $5B of AUM and the firm was founded by one of the founders of Capital One.

We obviously get into all things FinTech, but we also dive into the Latin American market, where Mike happens to focus.

If you’re interested in either fintech or Latam, or the intersection of the two this pod is for you. Enjoy.

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Growth Hacking With PR with Gregory Galant of Muck Rack and The Shorty Awards

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On this week’s episode I chat with Gregory Galant, the Co-Founder and CEO of Muck Rack and the Co-Founder and CEO of The Shorty Awards.

Muck Rack is a Public Relations management platform that helps organizations find the right journalists to pitch, report on media coverage and prove the value of their work.

Greg has been in the NY startup game for a long time. He famously launched The Shorty Awards where they gave out awards for the best tweets in the early days of Twitter. Along the way he tinkered with a dozen business ideas until Muck Rack finally hit and took him to the moon.

During our chat we talk about Muck Rack, the PR industry and his wisdom about entrepreneurship. Enjoy.

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FICO Scores: A Complete Breakdown with Freddie Huynh

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On this week’s episode I chat with Freddie Huynh, a veteran data scientist in the credit risk space. Most notably, Freddie oversaw the development of the FICO Score from 1996 to 2015.

It was really before analytics and data is what it is today. In a way, Freddie is one of the OG data scientists, one of the original guys out in that space. During our chat we discuss how the FICO Score works, we break down some of the urban myths about how scores are calculated, and we chat about the evolution of the data science industry. Enjoy.

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