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Bill Gates Proves Neil deGrasse Tyson Wrong, Talks Hoverboards and the Future in Reddit AMA
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Reddit exist if Bill Gates never did? Since our Foundation can
basically save a life for every $1,000 we spend I would pick it up since
that would be enough to save 40 lives, which is a big deal.
Esquire
Bill Gates just recreated a very chill picture of himself as a teen
The Verge
Bill Gates Talks Artificial Intelligence, the Apple-FBI Battle, and Why He Won't Run for President
Inc MagazineBill Gates Proves Neil deGrasse Tyson Wrong, Talks Hoverboards and the Future in Reddit AMA
Matt Miller,Esquire 11 hours ago
From EsquireWould Reddit exist if Bill Gates never did? That's a question we might never answer-unless he himself invents some sort of device that helps us explore alternate realities. Instead of wrestling with that multi-dimensional headache, just read some of Gates' responses to questions he could actually answer in his Reddit AMA earlier today:
On what new technology we would be better off without:
I am concerned about biological tools that could be used by a bioterrorist. However the same tools can be used for good things as well.Some people think Hoverboards were bad because they caught on fire. I never got to try one.On technology he wishes existed:
I recently saw a company working on "robotic" surgery where the ability to work at small scales was stunning. The idea that this will make surgeries higher quality, faster and less expensive is pretty exciting. It will probably take a decade before this gets mainstream-to date it has mostly been used for prostate surgery. In the Foundation work there are a lot of tools we are working on we don't have yet. For example an implant to protect a woman from getting HIV because it releases a protective drug.On regulating artificial intelligence:
I haven't seen any concrete proposal on how you would do the regulation. I think it is worth discussing because I share the view of Musk and Hawking that when a few people control a platform with extreme intelligence it creates dangers in terms of power and eventually control.On how soon quantum computing will catch on, and the future of cryptography:
Microsoft and others are working on quantum computing. It isn't clear when it will work or become mainstream. There is a chance that within 6-10 years that cloud computing will offer super-computation by using quantum. It could help use solve some very important science problems including materials and catalyst design.On this Neil deGrasse Tyson lecture that says it wouldn't be worth Gates' time to pick $40,000 up off the street:
Since our Foundation can basically save a life for every $1,000 we spend I would pick it up since that would be enough to save 40 lives, which is a big deal.On what things he won't spend money on:
I think people's spending instincts are set when they are in high school. I don't like spending a lot of money on clothes or jewelry (for me-I do like to buy nice things for my wife).On ditching class at Harvard:
I decided that I would be different and never attend any class I was signed up for but always attend a class I wasn't signed up for. This worked out in a funny way when the final exam for a Combinatorics class (which I signed up for) was given at the same table as my Brain studies class (which I attended and did not sign up for). My friends from Brain studies thought it was very strange that I sat on the wrong side of the table and took the Combinatorics exam even when I was the most vocal student in the Brain class.On how he did it:
I studied super hard during reading period and almost always got A's. The big exception was organic chemistry where the promised video tapes of the lectures sometimes had no sound or no video-that spooked me and I ended up getting a C+ in the course!
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