00:16:59 · Po-Shen Loh
Anyone who's watching this video, I think it's really important that we have as many people as possible find out how much fun it is to delight other people and to have the ability to think and figure that out. That's my agenda. But you see, everyone has an agenda. And if you can't think for yourself and you just listen to some authority. What if that agenda is actually to your detriment? You have no way of knowing. The technology revolution really made all of us start to realize how much of an impact bias has, in the sense that whoever makes some technology tool has some bias. What does bias really mean? Well, I guess as a mathematician, the way I would say it is two plus two is always four. That's right. What's the point of life? Oh, I don't know. Like, there's no clear definition what's the point of life. I think the point of life is is to delight as many other people as you can, but I know that you might not necessarily agree, and it's not a problem. I think it's it's healthy that we may have different starting points. The part that becomes unhealthy is where there are... Is only a very short menu of options, each of which is followed by a huge number of people. That's actually where bias comes in because we just we just mentioned so far in this in this video a couple of different, sources of AI providers. Right? We have we have Claude. We have OpenAI. There's also Gemini. If you're in China, there's DeepSeek. There are all of these, but that's relatively few. If you think about it, that's that would be sort of like saying, well, the world has lots of different viewpoints. It has five of them. Really? No. No. The world has seven and a half billion different viewpoints. There's seven and a half billion people. One of the beautiful things
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00:19:13 · Po-Shen Loh
[00:19:13] S2: But I guess humanity is the fact that there are so many different ideas all out there. And let's be frank. Some of the ideas are bad. Some of the people are unfortunately in prison because they decided to kill someone else. Hopefully, we all understand that this is a bad idea. But the point is, there are lots of different people who are trying different kinds of ideas, lots of different philosophies, and in this great big marketplace of ideas that is the world, we see some ideas come out, and the the variety also allows us to have more creativity perhaps. And when I look at the different AI tools, well, it's actually well known that they have certain biases. This is also why for me, when I try to get the news, I don't only go to cnn.com. I also go to Fox News. I tune my social media so that my ex is all tracking Republican, right leaning viewpoints, and my Facebook is all tracking left leaning viewpoints. And I look at both of them every day because I want to see what's going on. And my expectation is, yes, you're gonna be biased. You have a certain view on the world, and you think you're right, and you're biased too. You have a way of thinking of the world. And my job, as I simulate the world, is to try to figure out where do you disagree? Ah, you disagree perhaps on a few values of how people should live their life. And then that causes you to have different ways of reporting on the story. I think it's all the more important now that there's AI out here, which sounds like a very convincing reasonable person. It's even more important that people look at things and say, alright. Is that really the story? Because I think that the AI is gonna be so good at looking complete that you may think you have the entire story on a controversial situation, but you don't. I am an optimist, as you can probably tell from the way I'm talking. I'm optimistic because I can see that thoughtful people stick together. I've been working on my work with this whole group of high school students and so on for three years, and I can just see there are so many kids who are not kids anymore, who are growing up, who are really clever, but so kind. And they also know each other. They make me optimistic about the future, not only the ones that I work with, but the fact that if I'm working with these people, that means there are other people out there too.
00:21:32 · Po-Shen Loh
I'm basically seeing with my own eyes the power of what can be done if you bring together people who have in common this idea that they actually like people and they want to make the world brighter. See, one reason I'm building this whole community of really kind and clever people is because I'm also hoping to eventually build a whole lot of social entrepreneurs. Social entrepreneur is someone who makes a conscious decision to not necessarily become that rich. You're doing it for a different purpose. It's not because you want tons of money. It's because what makes you happy is seeing lots of delighted people. Social entrepreneurship is hard. The hard part is that sometimes at the beginning you feel this is an important problem that needs to be solved. Why won't people pay me to do it? I need a donation or an investment or something. That's how I started off. Today, when I do my social entrepreneurship, I think very carefully, how much does that problem actually cost? You know, if it's a problem, there's a real cost. In fact, it should be possible to make money. That word entrepreneur hopefully also includes something about sustainability through business type form. A good social enterprise should make a net profit on every single person that they help. Right? The problem that happens with social entrepreneurship sometimes is that people are doing something which would be nice to solve, but they haven't found a way to tie that together with solving a problem that has real monetary value that you can find someone to pay for. You should hopefully be able to figure out how it costs the world something that the problem is there. Uh-huh. Now try to figure out who is paying that cost right now, and see if maybe they would be interested in paying you for you to go and solve that problem. You just have to go and hunt around. How can I figure out how the positive that's created on average is spread apart across everyone who's playing? And then you also get a little bit too. That's actually what we do. For example, we provide all this education Since we make the best after school math classes for middle school students who want enrichment in the world, we have lots of customers. They pay for it. So we have the profit. But because I'm a social entrepreneur, we subsidize students from different parts of their country and different parts of the world.
00:23:53 · Po-Shen Loh
How come nobody else ever thought of putting professional actors to live coach high school math stars who are kind while they livestream math classes to middle school kids? And that whole thing builds an ecosystem that builds a more thoughtful world that can hopefully help to sustain our human civilization. It's actually an obvious idea. There are actors. There are math people. We can all win. It took eleven years to really build up to the stage that I am right now. It took eight years to come up with that idea. You can imagine how many other weird ideas came about along the way. Anytime I see anything in the world or something I need to do, I try to keep coming up with a weird new way to do it. For fun, I like to constantly be thinking, is there another way? Is there another way? Is there another way? When I do this, most of the time, I come up with a way, and then the next question becomes, alright, what could be wrong with it? So I first generate like this, I wanna generate new idea, and after the new idea is there, I say, now I want to destroy the new idea. I wanna shoot it down. How could it possibly be wrong? Because 99% of the ideas that I generate that are new are fundamentally flawed, but 1% are good. You have to just be constantly for its own sake saying, could there be another way of doing this? Could there be another way of doing this? So this combination of generate with excitement, destroy with lots and lots of effort, and then after a while, one diamond appears. Then push it.
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