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#163 – Eric Weinstein: Difficult Conversations, Freedom of Speech, and Physics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Innovation Is the Main Meal

Google purchased DeepMind as a company that kind of represents a lot of radical ideas. The idea is that innovation is like dessert. You can have dessert after you solve the problem of the main course. If you train a deep learning system on exclusively white faces, it's going to get confused. In fact, that's an issue of innovation in data. Your data should be responsive. And this completely simplistic idea that every failure of an organization to promote each person who has particular intersectional characteristics, we cannot hold progress hostage to that.

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