Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona U commencement speech(theguardian.com) |
Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona U commencement speech(theguardian.com) |
"When someone offers you a seat on the rocketship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on. [...] Find a way to say yes."
In my understanding, that's the billionaire class telling you where your place is in their plan for the world. Nobody asks if you even want to leave the planet, figuratively speaking.
The last sentence in particular shows the contempt he has for the students in the audience, and is reminiscent of another (alleged) incident: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/tried-to-convince-me-i-...
The quoted part of the speech can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MYggR_PPRg
The interesting thing is the advice isn’t terrible. The speaker, however, has no right delivering it.
This is the same guy that is testing autonomous murder drones in Ukraine to make his next billion.
So much let them eat cake energy with this guy.
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So bizarre!
Schmidt is paraphrasing advice around getting on a boat. Broadly speaking, if there is a green field and you're young and ambitious and not born rich, and you're able to choose whether or not to get on board, your odds are better there than wherever you are right now.
The analogy with AI would be doing something few others are doing. Just "accepting AI and integrating it deeply" is closer to trend following.
He's distracting people to pay no attention to the unintended consequences of their actions, distracting people from the Epstein files and the role of many of the people in his circle in them, and he's bloviating in front of a bunch of people who see through his tenuous charade.