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b'This week\\u2019s conversation is about artificial intelligence and interplanetary travel. Its about content creation, thinking from first principles, and death progress units. Its about brain machine interfaces and why it is crucial that you be a chef and not a cook.\\xa0\\n My guest is Tim Urban, along with his business partner Andrew Finn. Tim is the most entertaining writer I\\u2019ve come across in years, who explains complicated and interesting topics to his millions of dedicated readers on the website \\u201cWait, But Why.\\u201d As an example, Tim\\u2019s last post on Elon Musk\\u2019s neurlink venture is 40,000 words long, roughly the length of a short book. It explains almost all of human progress and our potential future using drawings and cartoons. Its impossible to stop reading.\\n While this conversation is wildly entertaining, it is also chock full of metaphors and lessons that will be useful to anyone doing creative work or building a company. I hope this leaves you as energized as it left me. I called this episode Grand Theft Life because that is the name that Tim and Andrew give to their worldview, which I think will change the way you behave, too. Please enjoy my conversation with Tim Urban.\\n \\xa0\\n For comprehensive show notes on this episode go to http://investorfieldguide.com/urban\\n For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.\\n To get involved with Project Frontier, head to InvestorFieldGuide.com/frontier.\\n Sign up for the book club, where you\\u2019ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub.\\n Follow Patrick on Twitter at @patrick_oshag\\n \\xa0\\n Books Referenced\\n Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies\\n \\xa0\\n Links Referenced\\n The Cook and the Chef: Musk\\u2019s Secret Sauce\\n Wait But Why\\n Neuralink and the Brain\\u2019s Magical Future\\n Wait But Hi\\n YouTube Channel\\xa0 Kurzgesagt \\u2013 In a Nutshell\\n \\xa0\\n Show Notes\\n 1:50 \\u2013 (First question) \\u2013 \\xa0Explaining his concept of planets 1, 2, 3 and 4 and understanding the human colossus\\n 5:46 \\u2013 Tim\\u2019s favorite idea of the human knowledge compounding\\n 7:52 \\u2013 Die Progress Units (DPU)\\n 9:45 \\u2013 Different stages of AI and the positives and negatives of each stage\\n 14;04 \\u2013 What happens when AI gains breadth and general intelligence\\n 16:23 \\u2013 The idea of a cook vs a chef and how Tim had the chance to interview Elon Musk\\n 17:48 \\u2013 Why you should reason from first principles instead of reasoning by analogies\\n 25:19 \\u2013 Why it\\u2019s possible to turn a cook into a chef\\n 30:08 \\u2013 Why being a chef is the safer route in a world with AI and what Tim has changed in himself as to why.\\n 31:22 \\u2013 Looking at the discovery process\\n \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 34:39 \\u2013 Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies\\\\\\n 40:01 \\u2013 Being the person who creates the metaphor vs being the people who simply using them\\n \\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0 43:41 \\u2013 YouTube Channel\\xa0 Kurzgesagt \\u2013 In a Nutshell\\n 44:54 \\u2013 Most fun that Tim has had researching a topic\\n 46:08 \\u2013 Musk model for attaining your goals\\n 53:43 \\u2013 Why not caring what people think is one of the world\\u2019s best superpowers, grand theft life\\n 56:50 \\u2013 Neuralink \\u2013 what is it and how did Tim come to research it\\n 1:02:38 \\u2013 Elon Musk\\u2019s concerns about AI\\n 1:14:28 \\u2013 What then if the Neuralink concept works out\\n 1:18:02 \\u2013 Kindest thing anyone has done for Tim\\n \\xa0\\n Learn More\\n For more episodes go to InvestorFieldGuide.com/podcast.\\xa0\\n Sign up for the book club, where you\\u2019ll get a full investor curriculum and then 3-4 suggestions every month at InvestorFieldGuide.com/bookclub\\n Follow Patrick on twitter at @patrick_oshag'