![]() ![]() How do we think? How do we reason? How do we communicate? Philosophy doesn’t have a better understanding than anyone else. I was intensely interested in the questions of who are we as individuals in society, and who should we be. Why did you then go on to get a master’s in philosophy? Then I did a summer internship at IBM on expert systems. I’ll go do that.” So I did a summer internship at Xerox PARC, where my job was building a simulator for a multiagent learning system. I went, “O.K., if I go and do the tech internship, I’ll get paid more. The pivot to working in tech was simply that the pay was better. major you only had to do some of the introductory things. light,” because you didn’t have to do the full C.S. The computer science majors would mockingly call it “C.S. How did you get interested in technology?Īt Stanford, my undergraduate major was called symbolic systems, which was artificial intelligence and cognitive science. Part of science fiction is imagining the world as it could possibly be, thinking about it on a scale of the change of humanity, or the change of what it is to be human, and thinking about the impact of technology on those things. I would go to the public library and would just pull the next book off the science fiction shelf and read it. The second is that I was an obsessive science fiction reader. Not lions and tigers and bears, but dwarves, elves and dragons, oh my. It was a focus on strategy, and how tactics and strategy go together. One was board games and fantasy role-playing games. There were two obsessions I had as a child that were pretty instrumental to the path I ultimately ended up taking. ![]() A great interview with Reid Hoffman at NYT ![]()
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