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show notes. If you if you empower people as
censors, then well, there's going to be some amount of bias
they have and then whoever appoints the censors is
effectively in control of information.
So then the idea behind community notes is well how do
we have a consensus driven, I mean so it's not really
censoring it but consensus driven approach to truth.
How do we or how do we, how do we make things the least amount
untrue? Like you can say like you can't
pass perhaps get to pure truth but you can aspire to be more
truthful. So the the the thing about
community notes is it doesn't actually delete anything.
It simply adds context. Now that context could be this
thing is untrue for the following reasons and but but
importantly with community notes everything is open source
actually. So you can see the the software,
every line of the software, you can see all of the data that
went into a community node and you and you can independently
create that community node. So if you've got if if you see
manipulation of the data, you can actually highlight that and
say well this, this, this, there appears to be some gaming of the
system and you can suggest improvements.
So it's it's it's maximum transparency, which is I think
combined with the kind of wisdom of the crowds and transparency
to get to a better answer. And really, one of the key
elements of community notes is that in order for a note to be
shown, people who have historically disagreed must
agree. And there is a bit of AI usage
here. So this will populate A
parameter space around each contributor to community notes
and then a parameter space. So, so everyone's got basically
these these vectors associated with them which so it's it's not
as simple as as right or left it's saying it's it's more it's
several 100 vectors that that because things are more
complicated than something right or left and and then we'll we'll
do sort of inverse correlation say like OK these these people
generally disagree but they agree about this note OK so then
that so then that that that gives the note credibility.
OK yeah that's that's the that's the core of it and it's working
quite well. I get to see a note actually be
be present for more than a few hours that that is incorrect.
So the batting average is extremely good and and when I
ask people say oh they're worried about community notes
sort of being disinformation like send me one and then they
can't so. So I think it's I think it's
quite good. I mean the general aspiration is
with with the X platform is to inform and entertain the public
and to be as accurate as possible and as truthful as
possible even if someone doesn't like the truth.
You know people don't always like the truth not always but
but that's that's that's the aspiration and I think if if we
are if we stay true to the truth then I think we'll find that
people use use the system to learn what is going on and to to
I think actually truth pays. So I I think it'll be what what
I mean assuming you don't want to engage in self delusion then
then I think it's it's the smart move excellent right that there
are cultural elements where you you you know the the culture
should celebrate creating new companies and and and there
should be a bias towards supporting small small companies
because they're they're the ones that need nurturing.
The larger companies really don't need nurturing.
So you know just you can think of sort of like a garden if it's
a little sprout that needs needs nurturing if it's a mighty oak
it doesn't need quite as much. So I think that that that is a
mindset change that is important but but I should I should
mention that London is you know London and San Francisco or the
Bay Area are really the two Centers for for AI.
So that so London is actually doing doing very well on that
front that the two I say the two leading locations on Earth, you
know San Francisco's probably head of London but London's
really very strong or London area, Greater London Home
Counties I guess keep going keep going.
So I'm just saying objectively this is the case and but you do
need that. You need, you need the
infrastructure. You need, you need landlords who
are willing to rent to new companies.
You you need law firms and accountants that are willing to
support new companies. And it's generally a might it is
a mindset change and I think some of that is happening.
But I think really it's just culturally people need to decide
this is this is a good thing. Yeah.
Exceed with your first start up. It shouldn't be a sort of a
catastrophic career ending thing.
It should be you know, well good.
I think generally should like it's really like well you know
you gave it a good shot you know and and and now try again yeah
and it's so one thing I was going to mention is like
obviously creating a company is sort of a high risk high reward
situation but I don't know quite what the how it works in in the
UKI think it's probably better than than Continental Europe but
the the stock options are very difficult in most parts of
Europe. I'm not sure where how does new
game but if somebody's basically going to risk their their sort
of life savings and with and the vast majority of startups fail.
So I mean you hear about the startups that succeed, but most
companies are, most startups consist of, you know, a massive
amount of of of work followed by failure.
That's actually most, most companies.
And so it's a high risk, high reward.
And so the high reward part does need to be there for it to make
sense. Yeah, exactly.
The most immediate thing is just being able to ask, like having a
very smart friend that you can ask anything, you know, ask how
to make something, how to solve any problem and it'll tell you
so. And obviously companies are
going to adopt this. So I think you'll have much
better customer service. I guess essentially that'll
probably be the first thing you'll notice.
And and then we talked about education, so having a tutor.
So if you're trying to understand a subject like having
a phenomenal tutor on any subject it's that that's really
pretty much there already almost.
I mean we need to obviously AI need to stop hallucinating
before you know it can't give you.
I mean we still have a little bit of a problem where it can
give you an answer that's confidently wrong with great
grammar and you know in a bullet points and everything in
citations it was not real. So that's me.
OK, we need to make sure it's it's not.
It's not. It's not to giving you
confidently wrong tutor answers, but that's going to happen
pretty quickly where it is actually correct.
So, well, really anything that can be actuated by a computer is
effectively a robot. So you can think of, frankly,
Tesla cars are robots on wheels. Anything that's connected to the
Internet is effectively an endpoint actuator for artificial
intelligence. So you've got Boston Dynamics.
Obviously they've been making impressive robots for a while.
I think they're at this point mostly owned by Hyundai.
So I I guess Hyundai is probably going to make robots of that are
humanoid and and and some rather interesting shapes that I wasn't
just being like the one that looks like a has wheels and
looks sort of like a kangaroo on wheels.
I'm not sure what that is but looks a little demanded frankly
but but there's going to be all sorts of all sorts of robots.
You've got the company Dyson in in the UK which I think there's
some pretty impressive things. I I think the UK will not be
behind actually on on that front.
UK also has ARM which is really the the best one of the best,
perhaps the best in in chip design in the world.
Tesla uses a lot of a lot of ARM technology, almost everyone does
actually. So I think UK is in a in a
strong position. Germany also makes a lot of
robots, national robots, I mean I think generally countries that
make robots of any kind, even if they seem somewhat conventional
will be, will be fine. I do think there is a, there is
a a safety concern especially with humanoid robots because you
know at least the car can't chase you into this building.
Not very easily you know or chase you up a tree or you know
you can sort of run up a flight of stairs and get away from a
Tesla. I think it's a Stephen King
movie about that if your car gets possessed so but if you
have a humanoid robot it can, it can basically chase you
anywhere. So I think we should have some
kind of hardwired local cut off that you can't update from the
Internet. So anything that can be software
updated from the Internet obviously can be overridden.
But if you have a local sort of off switch where you perhaps say
a keyword or something, and then that puts the robot into a safe
state, some kind of localized safe state ability, an off
switch, you know, or you don't have to get too close to the
robot. I know.
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