Advice for young people: Be a pioneer | Peter Wang and Lex Fridman

[@TheMaxKids]

I’m so thankful I “got it” back in the early 2000’s. Yanked my children out of public schooling and homeschooled. Now have post grad engineers.

[@GorilieVR]

This is the way^. I was homeschooled and now work at a university -creating online courses -even though i don't have a degree. School is an illusion and manufacturer robots with limited autonomy.

[@kurt8263]

Agreed. Library scientist/entry level programming - no college degree. I dropped out of high school with some of the top grades of my class, but finished online high school in a month or two.

[@hanhai8515]

how do they make friends?

[@TheMotionControl]

yes

[@TheMotionControl]

but

[@googm]

I really like this guy. There are so few people in tech, academia, that can take a step out for even a moment, and look in at the absolute calamity that are our scientific and technological institutions. 4:10 - this gives me hope too, but is not a message that the science orthodoxy and tech cult like to hear.

[@Jeremy-Ai]

Lex, it appears you have made it a mandate in your podcasts to ask most of your brilliant guests “what advice do you have for young people?” :) Its one thing to ask “in passing” this honest question from so many brilliant advisors you meet with all the time, and another thing to mandate it. One would assume its due to diligence and practical understanding that it’s crucial to pass crucial knowledge on from world leaders to any of those fresh inspired minds…that are truly seeking it. Im just so proud of your hard work Lex. I see it. Thank you, And hope you have a Wonderful Christmas my friend, you have definitely earned it. :)

[@hassansalot7115]

'Know when someone is running GAME on you' - Peter Wang is an OG

[@baron0877]

"Shame on a N who try to run game on a N who's buck wild with the trigger" - ODB, kicking knowledge that you gotta be ready to blast those who try to run game on you. Wu Tang is for the children!!

[@nicholasn.2883]

Finally someone telling us like how it is. We're screwed, big time.

[@MrChaluliss]

I agree that his assessment of society in the modern day is on point, though, I don't like to believe we are screwed. We are just in for a lot of change, and that is challenging. Some people are certainly screwed, but such is life. Humans generally though, def not screwed as a whole. It just isn't free to be a part of the group of individuals who are going to do well in this rapidly changing social environment.

[@ferndog1461]

Short version: if you have high IQ + high Discipline, you will go far. For the rest of us, be as cleaver/dependable/flexible/verbal as possible for whatever work that's is not attractive for the elite technology professionals.

[@Agastya_Muni]

IQ is not an absolute. discipline, effort and consistent training always wins over inherent IQ. So everyone has a chance to develop discipline, put effort in a consistent way in whatever you love to work on then you'll be an elite in that space.

[@turolretar]

My IQ is so high that I do in fact watch Richard and Mortimer, yes

[@agatainventio9464]

it was always like this

[@lloydcw60]

This is excellent! Needs to be listened to by everyone.

[@ericgirod9365]

That hedgehog has seen some brilliant and life changing guests

[@dbeelee8564]

Be a pioneer? Yes! Please understand you can not call yourself a pioneer. Others provide that label. The label you can provide yourself is trouble maker. The difference between them is timing/acceptance, and wealth.

[@will-se7wj]

Billions of people are hurtling headlong into philosophical crisis who don't even know the philosophical operating systems in their firmware, and they're heading into a time where that gets vaporized. - Peter Wang DAMN.

[@areez22]

I'd like to understand this better. I don't know if I understood him.

[@Majnun74]

I get what he’s saying💡 whatever is “good“ about technologies we create has a commensurate “evil”.

[@jacobtacosta]

I don’t say this often…but this is brilliant, a gem of a clip.

[@Anson120]

we are growing apart socially at a faster rate than it seems.

[@e555t66]

Thank you for getting such legends on show. The people who were responsible for the most of python can be packed into a van ? Wow. But that has to be organic. You can't pick winners. It never works.

[@adelinaquijano1083]

I love my community and I care for him for the rest in my life

[@brianle899]

this is the only good answer i've heard to this question

[@Salman-ji7en]

With all due respect, Wang is not very good at getting a coherent point across. Almost everything he said aside from "wealth inequality and social media are bad" was so incredibly vague that it's impossible to pinpoint what he was actually referring to.

[@areez22]

Agree. I still understood him but you're right.

[@Neverthat1155]

This is very true

[@tommytran5962]

Can somebody please simplify what Peter said? I'm having trouble truly understanding what he is saying.

[@if432]

Would be helpful for me also, but some key point I see: -Be a pioneer -Read the classics and find out the life you want to live, what meaning is to you, institutions failed and you have to have your own ideas and principles - Avoid group think and when game is being run on you, you are the product, you are being exploited in a network/social media/fame lottery etc.

[@turolretar]

No one can, because he’s having such troubles himself

[@CN-ys3qv]

Basically technology is moving at an exponential rate. Don’t get swept up and left behind. The undisciplined be wiped out. Always think in the future

[@foreverskeptical1]

This perspective is so eye opening. Ty for this

[@adelinaquijano1083]

I'm hardworking never give up keep going

[@Filaxsan]

This is a really good analysis and advice! Thanks a lot for sharing here!

[@lucascorazza1298]

Hey, this guy is fucking amazing

[@turolretar]

I have Pioneer radio in my car, does that qualify me for success?

[@straaths]

Are there any advices for old people?

[@19jepoy86]

"They don't even know the philosophical operating systems in their firmware...(Gesturing to the back of his neck)" - Some good Alpha

[@shadowcoder887]

I’m curious to know how Lex would answer this question

[@Gnnesh]

He has already done it in another video

[@MrEmbrance]

ok, done, thanks for the advice

[@stendaalcartography3436]

LOVE and change for the better.

[@aidakalefa659]

Clips are brilliant.

[@ismdope2883]

Advice for young people: Be a billionaire

[@wendyg8536]

I've just woken up on Christmas day.. the wheel turns over here a bit sooner on the planet.

[@federicogottardo4869]

Amazing insight!

[@ezlick1988]

'Lottery systems ... trapped in the narrative of your own economic zone' sounds a lot like squid games?

[@will-se7wj]

What does Peter mean when he says "the four-stack of people"?

[@romankubiv1801]

my only guess is that he is saying "full"

[@ariellecat]

I think he was talking about the stratas of society - low, lower middle, upper middle, and upper class. And he's saying that technology being created now is targeted at each strata and how it can get them to consume the technology.

[@CN-ys3qv]

Everyone won’t make it. The rich want to distance from the poor farther and farther. Humans are colonizers, in order to succeed at colonization you have to capitalize on the undisciplined and leave them behind. Pay attention to Elon, he’s trying to colonize mars

[@claytontucker8179]

Yes be responsible about publishing

[@kanyeeast5284]

Lex is Todd from Bojack horseman that's smart

[@larrpan]

Fantastic insights!

[@adelinaquijano1083]

it's ok for me no contact I respect my community

[@zb2747]

“All of human reality around you is the result of the last few generation of humans agreeing to play certain kind of games” THIIISSSSSS As a millennial, we changing this shit bro. FOH with the past “climb the ladder”, “play your role”, closed minded way of thinking bullshit, the future is here bro. Either you start THINKING for yourself and add to the algorithm and get “in” or yo ass gone be left behind - probably living your life through VR because you can’t do it in reality. WAKE UP PEOPLE

[@straaths]

What a nonsens. Do you really wish people to wake up? Do you realize, that if everyone will "wake up", possibility of you waking up in VR increases?

[@wendyg8536]

Pioneer checking in

[@jasontito7644]

thats great , "we are building amazing technology" , to add more to the crapy -once amazing- technology we have, very promissing message

[@avilla4013]

Who the FUKK is this guy? He put everything perfectly clear. Choose your own destiny

[@joelfehrman6097]

How to live a meaningful life. Skateboard play guitar and do what ever you want

[@NikhilKumar-fo5on]

Yay Wang!

[@John69]

wow that image from thumbnail XD

[@benjaminrichard7741]

3:10 I see that too. 😡

[@rodcam5647]

Advice for young people: Be a pioneer while you drown in debt

[@plethodon1575]

We have the internet, which is the ulimate dencentralization of knowledge. I don't think you can use high university costs as an excuse. The info is out there, you have to be willing to search for it and learn it without being spoonfed.

[@bradm8529]

@@plethodon1575 Totally agree. Self-taught/alternative education + new credentialing systems will inevitably become standard in many fields.

[@DylanHousego]

“If you can wiggle your butt in just the right way, you can achieve your 15 seconds of microfame….and that’s not healthy for our society. “

[@jasontito7644]

my son "BE A GENIUS "

[@bobsagget9212]

Revolt against the modern world

[@Anuj-2]

Facts

[@basicduck]

We’re literally fucked if we don’t figure this out. Yes I’m taking to YOU 😳

[@anmpir]

All of these industry leaders commenting about how they dropped out of school in the comment section

[@fitfirst4468]

Peter want got the spring roll

[@fitfirst4468]

Lex want the spring roll

[@alexshaykevich509]

Advice for young people: Be awesome. This is just about as useful. Better advice would be, learn a trade, become an electrician (just an example). Let the Peter Yangs of the world fiddle with computers until they make their own jobs obsolete. You pick something that won't be so easily disrupted by technology. He doesn't care about the reality of work because he's never struggled for it, and his advice merely reflects the good fortune of his own experience.

[@if432]

No thanks, doesnt actually pay well in most places and some safety maim risks make it not worth the moderate salary/wage. Maybe you should reconsider recommending this

[@alexshaykevich509]

"Some places"... that you know of. I stand by my recommendation, in the broadest sense. Pick something that's not going to be too easily disrupted by technology. Peter Wang's advice here is useless.

[@bignades1]

Programming requires higher order thinking. If people figure out how to make a computer think that way, no job is safe, surgeons, lawyers, and yes even electricians. You just throw that AI on robots we already have from Boston dynamics and all those trade jobs are done for good.

[@alexshaykevich509]

Nonsense. BD have addressed one, very tiny aspect of human movement, principally locomotion. And they've done an impressive job. But there's a lot more to doing a task humans do easily. Not to mention the enormous expense and limited range/power of even that level of robotics. "Higher order thinking" is far too vague, and computer programs can already write other computer programs. Automation is far different. Giving people advice to "be pioneers" is all fine and good, why not professional basketball players while you're at it? But from a practical standpoint, pretty worthless.

[@bignades1]

@@alexshaykevich509 you’re just talking out your ass about stuff you’re clueless about. computer programs can’t write code. They can do basically a more intelligent copy paste, but that’s it. They can’t think about a novel problem. Also, higher order thinking is a real term with a specific definition, look it up. Just because you’ve never heard of it, doesn’t mean it’s “vague”. I’m saying if computers achieve that level of intelligence, getting a robot to be programmed to move like a human is trivial.

[@wendyg8536]

..there is becoming less people with ears to hear. .peoples' hearing is getting damaged by high tuned frequencies... it isn't tinnitis as some of you are led to believe.

[@agatainventio9464]

why THE FK we were told to memorise and rewrite slogans that don't mean anything our whole childhoods and early youth? it destroyed cognitive abilities of tens of millions of ppl who otherwise would be able to save a piece of this planet and society. why were we betrayed by our own system? I feel like a brick in the wall, trained to be obedient by repeating simple meaningless tasks, my time disrespected, my need for education brushed off, my soul drained and furious. Let this world burn for what it did to us. if public schools go I'd gladly watch it burn with everything else.

[@telecorpse1957]

I read the title as "Be a prisoner"

[@mijincivilization7615]

collect donation and send other wise you will all be gone

[@springhillgolfer878]

So glad I was never a pioneer. Indian attacks, snow drifts, starvation, disease. The illusion of Manifest Destiny. Oh sorry, I have a history degree.

[@if432]

Better than sitting in a cubicle for 40hrs a week right?

[@Emoney559]

Who else clicked because of frodo

[@straaths]

"Son, be a selfish bitch."

[@jasong3972]

I agree with his conclusion, but the idea that the US is a "class-ist" society is not backed by data. Relative to what other society? Levels of diversity and social mobility are unparalleled. There's a reason why immigrants succeed here - opportunity

[@journeytothevoid2899]

I agree with you. I think he’s not looking at natural hierarchical structures humans organize themselves in. Also a large majority of the world is under an authoritarian rule. The US at least allows you a chance to get paid for productivity at scale. There’s resistance but it’s more possible to be successful in something you want. I liked his overall point as well but i don’t like when we slander the US when compared to the rest of the world when it allows for autonomy.

[@golfinguru11]

He’s comparing data to past generations. Despite the proliferation of the internet and its seeming democratization of opportunity, the reality is that wealth inequality is the largest it’s ever been in this country and the differences in ideology between the coastal elites and the median-earner in Ohio are probably even greater. America is the land of anecdotal opportunity, which is why he says you must be a “pioneer” aka become the anecdote or else end up a statistic.

[@jasong3972]

@@golfinguru11 You're right in terms of income inequality, but this is a result of the middle class being exported to developing countries. It's a reality in every developed country. Again, I agree with his conclusion, but there's no basis for his specific claim.

[@timc7035]

Sorta. If you are extremely driven and pretty intelligent from the start then it's possible to go from rags to riches. People at the bottom get treated waay worse here than in other countries. Healthcare can result in medical bankruptcy because of the lack of universal healthcare. The social welfare system plus a low wage job doesn't pay enough to live and unions aren't as prevalent here. No guaranteed paid parental leave and Americans tend to work longer hours than other countries with fewer benefits, but are compensated more.

[@golfinguru11]

@@jasong3972 well yes the exported middle class is partly WHY opportunity is less democratic than it once was. It’s worse in America than most developed nations because we have lower top tax rates, less of a safety net and minimally subsidized healthcare. It’s a winner-take-all system with fewer and fewer winners as time goes on. The winners loudly proclaim that America is the land of opportunity whilst the losers are drowning in debt, McDonald’s and opioids.

[@MUFFINHEAD1985]

Advice for young people, be a hobbit?

[@racialconsciousness6996]

Yeah, be a pioneer, do something DIFFERENT. Dare to have an ideology that isn't supported by literally every major celebrity and corporation. Dare to be a White person who's proud of their race and ancestry.

[@joshholder359]

How did you miss the point of this video so intensely

[@Ada-pm4bn]

@@joshholder359 hahah ikr

[@ThiccBoi23]

I did nazi that coming

[@golfinguru11]

This is about choice of profession and economics, not social ideology. Name checks out though.

[@jozasfrogas2915]

you had me in the first sentence, then you ruined it...