He was your best friend, and focused more on his ambition to read business magazines as a teenager. His accidental death hunts this book and your life at the age of 17.
Kent helped me shape me as a forward -looking person. And then Paul was reading about chip accessories, and he showed me. He was two years ahead of me but he dropped me out.
Paul also gave you LSD. Steve Jobs once said that LSD was a formal experience and opened his mind in a way that helped him in creativity and design. I do not realize that taking acid was changing life for you.
I think the batch that Steve got must have been really good for product design and marketing. My God, just think that if I was that batch! Yes, when I was young, I did some crazy things. Paul is entitled to some credit for him. As long as we became serious about the work, we were not doing so.
You also write about the famous time that was bust by you for speed. Did you spend one night in jail?
No, it was just a funny thing. They thought it was strange that someone had a good car – what was the story with this child? Was I a drug dealer or something?
You bought yourself a porsche in your early twenty -seventh condition.
I did not clearly fit their normal pattern. We placed enough cash that Paul was able to come down and take me out.
Talking about cash, recently you host the Netflix series, you made an episode about inequality. You did not condemn the views of billionaires, but advocated more equality. How will he work?
The world economy has created some hyper-rich people. Like me And perhaps 50 or 60 others. Elon Musk is head of that list, but with Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Steve Baller, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, there are many people with amazing levels of money. I hope that's okay. I will have a lot of progressive tax system, so I will have about one third of the money as I have. It will still be a huge fortune.
The New York Times reported that NVidia CEO Jensen Huang is on track to avoid $ 8 billion in property taxes. When you read, did you think, “I should consult their tax lawyer”? Or say that is not a good thing?
I am sure that I have paid more taxes than surviving anyone – more than $ 12 billion. I have techniques Be able to Used, I like to borrow against my microsoft shares and do not sell them. But if people are getting away with less payments in taxes in a legal manner, then it is a bit strange to blame them. We should change the tax system.
They are guilty as they use political pressure to preserve their flaws and cut funds for IRS.
The votes of these billionaires should not affect our tax system. In addition, many of the 50 hyper-rich are for more progressive taxation. I wonder that even the Democratic party has not gone far to make the goods more progressive. I am a great protector of estate tax, I think it's a great thing. I will make it even more difficult to avoid this.
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Let's talk about artificial intelligence. You have been working with it over the years, but you were slow to embrace the recent transformational success of generic AI. it was not until Openai demo GPT-4 at your home And an AP Biology test was done that you became fast on it. What was the reason for your initial doubt?
AI's idea is widespread throughout my history with computers. Strangely, when I left Harvard to start Microsoft, I felt that I could regret that the AI could progress quickly in AI, while I was doing the basic interpreters. . It turned out to be so wrong. I hope that when we can encode knowledge in a rich way, where it can read a biology textbook and pass the AP exam, that we would clearly understand how we are encoding that knowledge. Are. Instead, we discovered a strange statistical algorithm that we do not understand. Why does GPT work? We have no clue. But when openi showed me GPT -4, it shocked me that they had crossed a very important threshold. We still have problems of credibility, but we now have a way where I think they will all be solved.