Episode · This Week in Startups · 2021-03-19
Books mentioned on Cade Metz on his controversial Slate Star Codex article, new book "Genius Makers," dangers of algorithmic moderation, a16z vs. legacy media & more | E1187
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Jason Calacanis discussed The Bell Curve by Richard J. Herrnstein and others and The Genius Makers by Cade Metz.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Bell Curve
The Bell Curve by Richard J.
Discussed“so by creating a forum where anybody can talk about even the most controversial topics the bell curve comes to mind charles murray's book in a claim in that book i believe most accurately is that there was a difference between the iqs of different by race and it was a slight difference”
Where to get it
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The Genius Makers
The Genius Makers by Cade Metz is a comprehensive history of artificial intelligence that chronicles the maverick researchers who brought deep learning to major tech companies like Google and Facebook.
Discussed“because now there's dovetails with your new book um who's fault is it that a perf uh perfectly reasonable sam harris who is incredibly intellectual incredibly fair-minded and rational then leads to ben shapiro who then leads to infowars”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (7) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Plugged The Genius Makers
“kade metz is back on the program because he's got a new book out he's got a new book out”
Plugged The Genius Makers
“sure facebook is relatively simple when it comes when you know you know relative to a lot of this ai stuff that i talk about in my book and how that has evolved and how it will continue to evolve and how it could exacerbate a lot of these these problems we're now dealing with and uh i forgot to”
Plugged The Genius Makers
“it's based on all the misinformation that gets spread and you know what's really uh interesting um and this you know is only just part of what my book gets into is you know these ai technologies that are making it easier and easier and easier for machines to generate the misinformation”
Plugged The Genius Makers
“you know it's it's a really interesting thing that you bring up and like there's a there's a prime example of this in the book as well this guy jeff hinton i talked about right he had this idea that would it was one of the few on earth who really nurtured this idea”
Plugged The Genius Makers
“and this is a real thread throughout the book like i said it was academics like jeff hinton you know who worked on these ideas and then they were sucked into industry and what that meant was is they brought an academic sensibility to this work”
Plugged The Genius Makers
“what concerns do you have well i i learned a whole lot in writing this book and one of the things i alluded to earlier is that you know china was involved in this race from the beginning”
Plugged The Genius Makers
“uh they have it folks 90 minutes with kade mets go by genius makers the mavericks brought ai to google facebook in the world uh and thanks you've been on the pod”