Wikipedia

Q&A with YC Partners at Startup School SV 2016

Y Combinator

Mentioned as a benchmark for thinking about the long-term impact and legacy of a startup idea, suggesting founders should consider what their Wikipedia entry would say.

Tyler Cowen: Economic Growth & the Fight Against Conformity & Mediocrity | Lex Fridman Podcast #174

Lex Fridman

Used as a metaphor for wanting to access the entire history of humanity before death.

Tristan Harris — Fighting Skynet and Firewalling Attention | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss

A free online encyclopedia, cited by Tim Ferriss while quoting information about Frank Luntz.

Marcus Hutter: Universal Artificial Intelligence, AIXI, and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #75

Lex Fridman

A free online encyclopedia, mentioned as the human knowledge dataset for the Hutter Prize.

Yuval Noah Harari on The Story of Sapiens, The Power of Awareness, and More | The Tim Ferriss Show

Tim Ferriss

Online encyclopedia that contained a factual error about Harari living in a Mushav.

Gustav Soderstrom: Spotify | Lex Fridman Podcast #29

Lex Fridman

An online encyclopedia referenced by Lex Fridman for historical information about flute-like instruments.

Cristos Goodrow: YouTube Algorithm | Lex Fridman Podcast #68

Lex Fridman

An online encyclopedia mentioned by Lex as a platform where users collaboratively create a 'beautiful thing,' suggesting YouTube could foster a similar feeling.

YouTube Algorithm Basics (Cristos Goodrow, VP Engineering at Google) | AI Podcast Clips

Lex Fridman

Cited as an example of a platform where users collaboratively create content, similar to how users can contribute to improving YouTube's algorithm.

Tobi Lütke — From Snowboard Shop to Billion Dollar Company | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)

Tim Ferriss

A website Tobi Lütke used to look up business terms and concepts he didn't understand after meetings with venture capitalists.

François Chollet: Measures of Intelligence | Lex Fridman Podcast #120

Lex Fridman

An online encyclopedia used as an example of externalized human intelligence and the target for compression in the Hutter Prize.

David Eagleman: Neuroplasticity and the Livewired Brain | Lex Fridman Podcast #119

Lex Fridman

An online encyclopedia, described as a 'mole hole' for curiosity-driven learning in the internet age.

Oriol Vinyals: DeepMind AlphaStar, StarCraft, and Language | Lex Fridman Podcast #20

Lex Fridman

An online encyclopedia, admired by the speaker for its structured knowledge, suggesting its potential use for AI systems and knowledge graphs.

Ian Hogarth

Y Combinator

An example of a company that grew through SEO.

Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics | Lex Fridman Podcast #113

Lex Fridman

A crowd-sourced online encyclopedia praised as a 'solid accessible survey paper' and an authoritative source for scientific topics, despite initial skepticism.

Greg Brockman: OpenAI and AGI | Lex Fridman Podcast #17

Lex Fridman

Cited as an example of a successful internet platform whose initial conditions (not having ads) were crucial to its development and positive impact, aligning with the idea of setting initial conditions for technology.

Sundar Pichai: CEO of Google and Alphabet | Lex Fridman Podcast #471

Lex Fridman

Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #367

Lex Fridman

Online encyclopedia, mentioned as a triumph of human civilization for its collective knowledge and accessibility.

How to Thrive in an AI World, Tips for Life’s Darkest Hours, & The Art of Sabbaticals (4K)

Tim Ferriss

An example of open-source principles applied to an encyclopedia, where collective contributions led to superior quality over time.

Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming | Lex Fridman Podcast #341

Lex Fridman

Mentioned as a large website that still uses PHP for much of its backend.

Collective Stupidity -- How Can We Avoid It?

Sabine Hossenfelder

Used as an example of collective human intelligence, noting its usefulness for collecting information despite having issues, and its accuracy comparable to other encyclopedias.

What's Going Wrong in Particle Physics? (This is why I lost faith in science.)

Sabine Hossenfelder

Mentioned as a source for lists of unsolved problems in physics, many of which the speaker categorizes as 'pseudo-problems'.

Is the brain a computer?

Sabine Hossenfelder

Cited for its definition of a computer, which is similar to Google's.

Demis Hassabis: DeepMind - AI, Superintelligence & the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #299

Lex Fridman

An online encyclopedia, used as a thought experiment to illustrate the vastness of knowledge AI could assimilate.

Ezra Klein (Full Episode) | The Tim Ferriss Show (Podcast)

Tim Ferriss

An online encyclopedia, whose style of summaries Ezra Klein used to characterize his early writing on international healthcare systems.