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In his new book, The Thinking Machine, Stephen Witt offers a riveting portrait of Jensen Huang, who went from immigrant dishwasher to CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company.
"The Thinking Machine" is available on Amazon: geni.us/0U4E
• If you enjoyed this episode, check out our conversation with Walter Isaacson (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-on-the-worlds-most/id1482067226?i=1000627843131) about his biography of Elon Musk
In his new book, The Thinking Machine, Stephen Witt offers a riveting portrait of Jensen Huang, who went from immigrant dishwasher to CEO of NVIDIA, the world’s most valuable company.
"The Thinking Machine" is available on Amazon: geni.us/0U4E
• If you enjoyed this episode, check out our conversation with Walter Isaacson (podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elon-musk-walter-isaacson-on-the-worlds-most/id1482067226?i=1000627843131) about his biography of Elon Musk








![The Case for AI Optimism with Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Nearly half of all Americans believe AI is bad for humanity. Peter Diamandis is not one of them. On his podcast, Moonshots, and in his new book, We Are as Gods, co-written with the inimitable Steven Kotler, he makes the case that artificial intelligence is already ushering in a world of abundance — think radical life extension, 10 billion humanoid robots, and agents that do your job while youre sipping a latte.
He knows it may not be all sunshine and hydroponic roses, but he believes our future is incredibly bright. And hes putting his money where his mouth is: XPRIZE, the nonprofit he founded more than 30 years ago to bankroll breakthroughs, just announced its giving $3.5 million to filmmakers who conjure convincingly optimistic visions of the future.
Rufus and Caleb dont have their film treatment ready yet, but they do have plenty of questions for Peter and Steven about flying cars, the future of work, worst-case scenarios, and the new commandments for working with AI.
💬 LINES WE LOVE:
“If you’re in ninth grade and you’re using AI to do your homework, that’s just stupid, and you shouldn’t be allowed to do that. But if you’re in ninth grade and you’re using AI to help you build a starship to go to Alpha Centauri, or create a new form of energy, or something that’s way beyond your dreams — and it’s enabling you to up-level your ambition and your abilities — then that’s amazing.” —Peter Diamandis
“Human writing is weird, its surprising, its idiosyncratic, it has high prediction error. An LLM optimizes towards the mean, towards the average. It standardizes output... [It] may make your writing look a lot cleaner to you, but its actually hurting communication and its hurting persuasion. Average gets ignored; remarkable gets remembered.” —Steven Kotler
Im not worried about artificial intelligence. Im worried about human stupidity.” —Peter Diamandis
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