Possible: Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings: stories, schools, superpowers

“Anything that lives in the emotional realm will be impacted not as much by AI because we humans react to these things emotionally. And so, again, I think we'll not watch robots playing basketball... things that are emotional, you know, will be—it's not that it won't eventually be able to add value, but that's certainly not the big thrust of the AI world.”

“If I had a three year old today, I would be, like, doubling down on the emotional skills. Knowing yourself, interact with other human beings is gonna be the thing that sustains those kids, you know, through their working life. We’ll see a rotation back to the humanities and into understanding a combination of history and literature.”

“In twenty years, robots will do maybe 1% of the plumbing. At most. It just takes a super long time to build, deploy, and then to get them to be lower cost, higher safety than others. But I think over fifty years it will happen. So that's still gonna be a great field for the next twenty years.”

“In lower income countries, the education budget might be $300 per kid per year, and the class size might be 50 to 70 kids. There's just not a lot of learning going on. And I think the combination of a Starlink on every school and tablet for every child and then really good AI software will close the gap.”

“Operating personality, you're like a dog with a bone. You never give up on a problem. You just work it. You work it. And investing personality is staying very broad, not falling in love with an idea, you know, cutting your losses and moving on. Like, when I tried investing, I just fell in love with all the entrepreneurs and kept the amount of money, and then none of it worked out.”

“Satya made one incredibly ballsy, insightful decision, which is to invest in OpenAI back in 2018. He bet big on AI, and that catapulted them both reputationally and in terms of the Azure business. It was the workload that then has grown Azure into a monster and a big success.”

“If everything breaks humanity's way, it's because AI has unleashed human flourishing, and we find the political mechanisms to share that across within our country, across different income groups, and then between countries. The world as a whole is enhanced. A first step for that would be to realize how interconnected we are.”