Как выжить бизнесу в эпоху вайбкодинга и искусственного интеллекта? | Вопрос-Ответ с Маргуланом — Transcript
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- 0:00We are here at Lake Balkhash in such a
- 0:02beautiful place. Behind us is Lake
- 0:03Balkhash, the channel, the river. And
- 0:06we decided to light a little bonfire.
- 0:08And we decided to have a chat. And what
- 0:10can one chat about in modern times? In
- 0:12principle, we talk a lot about business
- 0:14, about each other's businesses,
- 0:16analyzing them and sharing experience,
- 0:18but at the same time, a common theme
- 0:20unites us all. We are all looking
- 0:24forward. All of us, our gaze is fixed
- 0:26forward on the development of
- 0:28technology. And each of us is concerned
- 0:31about the future of business. Where
- 0:33business is heading, how it will
- 0:35develop, how artificial intelligence
- 0:38will affect it, robots, and in general,
- 0:40what is vibe coding, which of us is
- 0:43doing vibe coding, and what one gets
- 0:45out of vibe coding for themselves and
- 0:47their business. And today we decided to
- 0:51dress up a little bit. In reality,
- 0:54exactly 10 minutes ago we looked
- 0:56completely different. Some even washed
- 1:00up for this, for this shoot. And so we
- 1:05gathered today to have this kurultai
- 1:08and talk about it. Well, shall we
- 1:11broach the subject...
- 1:13of the future? What about us?
- 1:14What are we to broach? Margulan
- 1:15Kalievich, we ask the question, you
- 1:17answer. Actually, actually, it's just
- 1:20that each of us thinks about this all
- 1:23the time and in essence answers
- 1:25ourselves somehow, crookedly or slanted
- 1:27, but we find some answers for
- 1:29ourselves. It's just that today the
- 1:32idea is to throw all thoughts into the
- 1:34center and understand for ourselves
- 1:37where all this is moving and whether we
- 1:39are thinking correctly at all. Go ahead
- 1:41, Kostya. Do you want to? I see,
- 1:43judging by the fact that you’re
- 1:44sitting there all red and tense, do you
- 1:46want something?
- 1:48Actually, I got sunburned. We are at
- 1:50Lake Balkhash. The sun is very
- 1:52scorching here. Yeah. And Margulan
- 1:54Kalievich, I want to ask you a question
- 1:56. Tell us, what is vibe coding? Many
- 1:59simply don't know what it is. And, uh,
- 2:02tell us your opinion, why is the
- 2:04current world moving precisely toward
- 2:07vibe coding and its development? Oh,
- 2:10you know, vibe coding. It’s
- 2:12interesting, I recently read a phrase
- 2:16from a smart guy. He says: "Everyone
- 2:20thought that vibe coding is when people
- 2:23who have something were given the
- 2:26ability to code." Actually, it’s when
- 2:30people who know how to code were given
- 2:32a vibe. Do you feel the difference? Yes
- 2:37. And now there is a general trend like
- 2:39that. Everyone who didn’t code before
- 2:40and didn’t understand a damn thing
- 2:42about it suddenly jumped in and started
- 2:43thinking that it’s for them. Well, I
- 2:45did the same thing. I jumped into it,
- 2:47since I didn’t know how to code
- 2:49before. For me, it’s Greek to me. I
- 2:52thought, oh, now I can code. I rushed
- 2:55into it, but since I can think
- 2:57structurally and understand
- 3:02architecture and build processes, I
- 3:04very quickly realized that without
- 3:07understanding the base of building
- 3:10applications, creating apps, the
- 3:12architecture in general, and the very
- 3:15essence of coding, when you AI-code,
- 3:18you just create garbage. That's why
- 3:23it's interesting, all the principles I
- 3:26teach in business apply perfectly to
- 3:28AI-coding, because AI-coding has the
- 3:31same exact processes. And the most
- 3:34interesting part is, well, you start,
- 3:35just like in any business, by first
- 3:37understanding the architecture. When we
- 3:39build a business, well, the right way
- 3:41to build it is to first understand the
- 3:43tax scheme, the legal scheme, the
- 3:45management structure, the company
- 3:47structure, build it correctly, and only
- 3:49then fill it with substance: what
- 3:51specialists you need, what their
- 3:53functions are, delineations, what is
- 3:54allowed and what isn't, individual
- 3:56qualifications, and so on. And the same
- 3:59thing works in AI-coding, especially
- 4:02when you are building a multi-agent
- 4:03architecture and a multi-agent pipeline
- 4:06, or so-called workflow. And another
- 4:09interesting thing in AI-coding is, you
- 4:12know, many complain that artificial
- 4:14intelligence hallucinates, lies,
- 4:16presents wishful thinking as reality,
- 4:18and so on. That is all correct. But
- 4:22with one condition: if you manage your
- 4:25work with it incorrectly; if you tell
- 4:28an AI, "make it good for me," it will
- 4:30lie to you, it will hallucinate, it
- 4:33will skip steps in the algorithm, it
- 4:35will tell you it's done when it
- 4:38actually hasn't. Then I thought, "How
- 4:41is it any different from a human?" A
- 4:43human does the exact same thing. If you
- 4:45go to a person and say, "Make it look
- 4:46beautiful." Well, they will make it the
- 4:49way they think is beautiful. Plus, they
- 4:52will do it the easiest way possible.
- 4:55Plus, they will present wishful
- 4:57thinking as reality. Exactly the same.
- 4:59And it's interesting, when I started
- 5:02building multi-agent systems, I
- 5:04realized that it actually clears your
- 5:07head in terms of how to interact with
- 5:10people correctly. It’s interesting,
- 5:14you learn to build relationships with
- 5:16agents, but these same principles work
- 5:18for relationships with people.
- 5:21Therefore, it is very important to
- 5:24ensure that the LLM clearly understands
- 5:26, first, the goal of what you want, and
- 5:29second, understands all the metrics,
- 5:32parameters, and criteria by which the
- 5:34task will be considered complete. Plus,
- 5:38it must clearly understand the sequence
- 5:41of the pipeline. First this, then this,
- 5:43then this, then this. For this, you
- 5:46create separate agents and so on. And
- 5:49at the same time, tests, checks, and so
- 5:50on are being performed. But my point is
- 5:54that at first, I rushed into AI coding
- 5:57to understand more about coding, but by
- 6:00doing AI coding, I started to
- 6:02understand more about people. That's
- 6:07interesting. And about management flaws
- 6:10, about the shortcomings, well,
- 6:12relatively speaking, the mistakes
- 6:14businessmen make in managing people.
- 6:17And in general, if we look at the big
- 6:20picture, why I took up AI coding is
- 6:22because I generally like to constantly
- 6:24track what's new and catch trends.
- 6:27Everything, where everything is heading
- 6:29, right? And accordingly, I like the
- 6:31saying by Wayne Gretzky, the Canadian
- 6:33hockey player, who says, "I, my secret
- 6:36to success is that I don't run to where
- 6:38the puck is now. I run to where the
- 6:40puck is going to be in a few moments."
- 6:43So, in this regard, I don't engage in
- 6:45business that is relevant right now. I
- 6:48immediately start working on business
- 6:51that will be relevant in 2, 3, 5, or 7
- 6:53years. And how do you figure that out?
- 6:56To do that, you first need to
- 6:58understand the full power of the
- 7:00technology, understand what it provides
- 7:02, what the advantages and disadvantages
- 7:04of this technology are, and how this
- 7:07technology can be adapted into business
- 7:09. That's why I dove deep into AI coding
- 7:12. Not for the sake of AI coding and not
- 7:15so much to write an app, although I'm
- 7:18writing 12 apps right now, but more to
- 7:20understand where business is headed,
- 7:23how this technology will affect
- 7:25business, and what the business of the
- 7:28future will look like. That is, in
- 7:31principle, my path.
- 7:32And do you know what the most
- 7:33frustrating part is? I am currently
- 7:34watching how artificial intelligence
- 7:36and, let's say, those who do AI coding
- 7:38are simply depriving many professions
- 7:40of work. Ten years ago, we had a cool
- 7:42profession—programmers.
- 7:44Uh-huh.
- 7:45And now you literally ask GPT, "Create
- 7:48a program for me, for example, for an
- 7:51IT application or some game." And GPT
- 7:54creates the program in literally, I
- 7:56don't know, a few minutes.
- 7:58Well, you know, that's not quite right.
- 8:00I would say it like this: LLMs are
- 8:02indeed taking jobs away from juniors,
- 8:04junior programmers, well, entry-level,
- 8:07yes,
- 8:08and somewhere from mid-level, but for
- 8:10seniors, on the contrary, the demand
- 8:12for seniors has only grown. Why?
- 8:14Because, well, the most interesting
- 8:16thing in AI coding is that writing the
- 8:19code is the simplest task. When we make
- 8:23a multi-agent structure, we use the
- 8:25cheapest model for writing code. The
- 8:27absolute cheapest model. Because when
- 8:30you clearly define the technical
- 8:32requirements, set the parameters,
- 8:34determine what is allowed and what is
- 8:37not, and define the criteria for what
- 8:39constitutes a completed task, any
- 8:41reasonably smart model can write the
- 8:44code. But the real question is how to
- 8:47set a task, how to plan it, and how to
- 8:50design the application architecture.
- 8:53That’s where you need a human; you
- 8:56can't just slap that together. Sure,
- 9:02you can cobble together simple apps for
- 9:04yourself, but if you give them to a
- 9:07decent programmer later, they'll find
- 9:09so many security holes and patches,
- 9:12because how do you actually build an
- 9:14app with an LLM? You keep going, it
- 9:18creates a visual interface, you like
- 9:20something, and you say, "Add another
- 9:22button for me." And then, "I want that
- 9:24to flash when I click this button," and
- 9:26then you do this. And all of that is
- 9:28just patching. It’s all just patches.
- 9:32And then, when an IT specialist looks
- 9:34at your code, it's just patches upon
- 9:35patches, and nothing works. You can't
- 9:38put that into production. I mean, for a
- 9:42large number of users, or for the App
- 9:45Store, it'll be clunky; it’ll work
- 9:48for two days and crash on the third.
- 9:53That’s why I believe the demand for
- 9:59high-level specialists will only grow.
- 10:04Yes, writing code when the technical
- 10:07requirements are known, the parameters
- 10:10are set, and the constraints are clear
- 10:13—that’s not such a difficult thing.
- 10:17So, I do believe many professions will
- 10:21disappear, but primarily those
- 10:25involving routine operations. Routine
- 10:30tasks like sorting things, cleaning
- 10:33data, calibrating, deduplication,
- 10:35moving things around—basically what
- 10:38people did when shuffling papers,
- 10:41filling in numbers, calculations—
- 10:43these operations will be the first to
- 10:46go. But operations related to
- 10:50creativity...By creativity, I don't
- 10:53mean painting pictures or writing songs
- 10:56, but rather thinking about how to
- 10:59build the architecture. Because to
- 11:02solve any reasonably complex task, it's
- 11:04clear that one person or one agent
- 11:06won't be enough. It has to be a group
- 11:10of agents, and perhaps even a human
- 11:12within that system. And you need to
- 11:15establish how they interact. It's about
- 11:18how it's structured, the sequence, the
- 11:20protocols, permissions, access levels,
- 11:22security, and so on. This is what a
- 11:24human needs to think about. Therefore,
- 11:26human experience, taste, and the
- 11:29responsibility of decision-making—
- 11:31agents won't take that on themselves.
- 11:35But this requires different, new
- 11:37qualifications from people. I am
- 11:41absolutely thrilled that a time is
- 11:44coming now where value is shifting from
- 11:47routine, so to speak, operations with
- 11:49minimal intelligence to operations with
- 11:52maximum intelligence. And so a person
- 11:57will begin to engage in what I consider
- 11:59their most fundamental function—
- 12:01thinking. Thinking, while artificial
- 12:04intelligence will knock out everything
- 12:06else just like that. And those
- 12:09professions where you need to think and
- 12:11use your brain will not die out. On the
- 12:14contrary, they will only grow now, the
- 12:16demand will only increase. I even see
- 12:19now that when large companies are
- 12:22hiring, they’ve stopped looking so
- 12:24much at whether you have a degree from
- 12:27Stanford or Harvard; in fact, having
- 12:29dropped out of university is now
- 12:32considered cool. Then they started
- 12:35looking at how a person presents
- 12:37themselves, their presentations and
- 12:39resumes—people have learned how to
- 12:42make all that look nice. Now, they look
- 12:44more directly at your portfolio. Show
- 12:46me your GitHub, your link, what
- 12:47you’ve actually built there. They
- 12:48really look at your code, and it
- 12:50immediately determines your
- 12:51qualifications. And the next level is
- 12:54that they just give you a test task and
- 12:56say: "Build the architecture." Think
- 12:59through the architecture. And that is
- 13:01why the depth of your thinking becomes
- 13:02immediately clear. And in this regard,
- 13:06of course, I personally see a positive
- 13:09side in that those professions and
- 13:12activities where more intelligence is
- 13:14required will be valued more. And this
- 13:19is exactly what we are doing together
- 13:21here, learning to engage our brains
- 13:23more in business. Otherwise, we very
- 13:26often do business mechanically, without
- 13:28thinking. Margo, definitely, coding and
- 13:31artificial intelligence are the trends
- 13:34of the day, and they are spreading into
- 13:37every sector. One of your areas of
- 13:40activity is the agricultural sector.
- 13:42How do you think artificial
- 13:44intelligence can influence agribusiness
- 13:47, and what new professions might appear
- 13:49in agricultural fields and the sector
- 13:52as early as tomorrow? Well, in the
- 13:56agricultural sector, uh, firstly, this
- 14:01is in terms of improving varieties,
- 14:05breeds, selection, and so on. This, I
- 14:09believe, is the first thing that will
- 14:11be impacted.
- 14:13Because artificial intelligence is
- 14:15capable of sorting through various
- 14:16combinations of proteins, various
- 14:18combinations of genes, and so on and so
- 14:20forth. And thanks to this, people will
- 14:23learn how to develop new varieties
- 14:26faster, new breeds, and so on. The
- 14:29second is biosafety in the agricultural
- 14:31sector. Right now, we solve this with
- 14:34chemicals. Fields are sprayed with
- 14:36chemicals, animals are given various
- 14:38vaccinations, and so on. But it is
- 14:42possible to do it differently, or even
- 14:46to create plants that are not
- 14:50susceptible to certain diseases, for
- 14:53example.
- 14:56That is, figuratively speaking,
- 14:58ensuring the health of organisms not
- 15:01through chemicals.
- 15:03Uh-huh.
- 15:03And through some, well, you know,
- 15:06changes, selection, modification, and
- 15:09so on. And this, I believe, is the
- 15:12first part that gives the greatest
- 15:14multiplier effect on all sectors, on
- 15:17agriculture in general, and so on. If
- 15:20we take not the scientific part, but
- 15:23now, uh, directly the work in the
- 15:25countryside, well, let's say, in the
- 15:28field, on farms, and so on, then a
- 15:33strong technological shift will occur.
- 15:35I just see now that in our factories, a
- 15:37person doesn't even enter. Actually, a
- 15:40person entering a poultry house is,
- 15:43well, it's basically an emergency
- 15:46situation.
- 15:48Uh-huh.
- 15:49The point is, the less a person appears
- 15:51there at all, the higher the biosafety,
- 15:53because a person brings a bunch of
- 15:55contagion with them.
- 15:56Uh-huh. Accordingly, the technology is
- 16:00built in such a way that air exchange,
- 16:03temperature, climate, humidity, feeding
- 16:06, watering—everything is without
- 16:09human participation. And in the
- 16:12agricultural sector, I believe that
- 16:14systems with minimal human
- 16:16participation will be created. Even, uh
- 16:19, weeding, for example. Now there are
- 16:23already laser drones that fly along and
- 16:25just burn weeds, or wheeled ones that
- 16:27burn them out. Notice, this is again a
- 16:30non-chemical method of field treatment.
- 16:32That is, what I was talking about, we
- 16:35will move towards non-chemical ways of
- 16:37ensuring biosafety. Uh-huh.
- 16:39And, well, weeding with lasers, drones,
- 16:41and so on, with as little human
- 16:43participation as possible. This is even
- 16:46before talking about robots. And why is
- 16:48this artificial intelligence? Because,
- 16:50after all, all these mechanisms already
- 16:52exist, but these mechanisms will
- 16:54primarily start getting artificial
- 16:56intelligence as brains.
- 16:58So, these mechanisms will be given
- 17:00brains.
- 17:01And the next stage is, of course,
- 17:03robots. Robots are when artificial
- 17:06intelligence is given arms and legs,
- 17:09and it starts performing the work that
- 17:11humans did before. And in the first
- 17:16place, of course, such tasks will be
- 17:18handed over where precision is required
- 17:20,
- 17:21and where people don't want to work.
- 17:23These are dirty jobs, dangerous jobs,
- 17:27heavy or routine jobs. Well, things
- 17:31that people don't want to do. These
- 17:33will primarily be handed over to robots
- 17:35and artificial intelligence. And in
- 17:38this regard, I would say that, uh, of
- 17:44course, the farmer's function will not
- 17:47disappear, at least in the foreseeable
- 17:50future, but their workload will drop
- 17:53sharply, and their efficiency and
- 17:56productivity will increase many times
- 17:59over. Uh-huh.
- 18:01Because they will have many autonomous
- 18:03systems. It's interesting, I even saw
- 18:07it on Instagram, in Australia they
- 18:10launched, you know, a cage, a farmer
- 18:13launched a cage, basically, and the
- 18:16cage is on wheels.
- 18:19Uh-huh.
- 18:20At this height above the ground, and he
- 18:22herds sheep into it, like 50 sheep, and
- 18:25the cage has GPS antennas, and, well,
- 18:27something like artificial intelligence.
- 18:31And this cage, he has a pasture. And
- 18:33this cage quietly moves all day long,
- 18:36and the sheep graze. And there’s no
- 18:40shepherd, no one else there. The cage
- 18:42just drives around his territory. And
- 18:44on one hand, it works out well, it
- 18:46fertilizes evenly. The sheep graze
- 18:49evenly, the pasture doesn't degrade,
- 18:51wolves won't attack because they're in
- 18:53the cage. Well, in short, it's just a
- 18:58totally autonomous sheep-rearing system
- 19:01.
- 19:02It’s absolutely insane. And more and
- 19:03more of these systems will appear. Well
- 19:05, you see, the farmer still remains,
- 19:07but he becomes more of an operator.
- 19:09Uh-huh.
- 19:11Take us, for example, I'm even looking
- 19:12at poultry farming; our poultry farmers
- 19:14aren't the people who are there dealing
- 19:16with manure or whatever. They are
- 19:18purely operators. That's why, if animal
- 19:20scientists were valued before, now
- 19:22engineers are valued first and foremost
- 19:24.
- 19:24Uh-huh.
- 19:25In our management positions, it's
- 19:27mostly engineers now, not animal
- 19:29scientists. So you no longer need to be
- 19:32a specialist in animals, you need to be
- 19:35a specialist in systems. That’s the
- 19:38shift happening in the agricultural
- 19:40sector. You have to be a specialist not
- 19:43in animals, but a specialist in
- 19:45engineering systems.
- 19:46In support of this topic. We are
- 19:48currently in Arkansas. And a lot of
- 19:51rice is sown here. And right now, I'm
- 19:55with relatives here, I have many
- 19:56relatives, and I'm finding out that
- 19:58China is coming in here and they are
- 20:00sowing all these fields entirely with
- 20:02drones.
- 20:03It turns out that artificial
- 20:04intelligence, even current realities,
- 20:06is already entering agriculture.
- 20:09Yes. Yes.
- 20:10And I would like to ask this question.
- 20:13So it turns out that vibe-coding is, uh
- 20:16, the human role is to know a clear
- 20:18goal, right, and it turns out to know
- 20:21the exact final result and what problem
- 20:24we are solving through vibe-coding.
- 20:27Right? Yes.
- 20:29Well, it's not just that, look, the
- 20:31goal, the final result, you must know
- 20:32it precisely in metrics,
- 20:34not in words,
- 20:35but metrics, because words can be
- 20:37interpreted this way or that way. You
- 20:39can say, "Make it beautiful for me." Or
- 20:42you can say, "Make it this specific
- 20:45color number, these pixels, this
- 20:47sharpness, this image size." Well,
- 20:50that's different. It is important for
- 20:53the artificial intelligence to
- 20:55understand, that is, to learn to speak
- 20:57its language so that it understands
- 20:58these metrics. And that’s exactly
- 21:01this point. Oh, and the question always
- 21:02remains for the human: "What is this
- 21:04for?" Because with artificial
- 21:06intelligence, you can write any
- 21:07application. The most pointless,
- 21:09useless one. Only a human determines
- 21:12whether it is useful or not. So, in
- 21:14fact, the person bears the risk that
- 21:16the application turns out to be useless
- 21:18to anyone. You spend your time, your
- 21:22money, and in the end, the AI doesn't
- 21:24care because you already paid to use it
- 21:27. Your money is gone, and what you
- 21:31spent it on is your own area of
- 21:33responsibility.
- 21:35Margulan Kalievich, here is a question.
- 21:37Artificial intelligence is now coming
- 21:39into business; it is integrating very
- 21:41tightly there. But the question is,
- 21:43what will clients value in 5-7 years? I
- 21:45mean, when all this is integrated? So
- 21:47what do we, as entrepreneurs, need to
- 21:50work on right now?
- 21:53You know, you say: "Clients, but
- 21:55actually, can we pose the question more
- 21:58broadly: what will we value in
- 22:01artificial intelligence?" Or can we
- 22:04pose the question even more broadly?
- 22:06Most people make the mistake of
- 22:09thinking that artificial intelligence
- 22:12will take us over. And that, well,
- 22:15movies have scared us, saying they will
- 22:19take us over and so on. But do you know
- 22:22the funny thing is that artificial
- 22:24intelligence won't take us over; we
- 22:26will give everything to it voluntarily,
- 22:29with joy. Why? Because artificial
- 22:32intelligence and robots will do
- 22:34everything cheaper. Faster, easier, and
- 22:37with higher quality. And so you get a
- 22:40robot housekeeper; it does everything
- 22:43unquestioningly, everything clearly, no
- 22:45need to remind it of anything, and so
- 22:47on. What will you do? You will trust it
- 22:50with more and more things. Thus, the
- 22:52cooler the artificial intelligence is,
- 22:55the more access to your computer you
- 22:57will give it. You will give it access
- 23:00to your disk, Google Drive, iCloud,
- 23:03calendar, and email. You will give it
- 23:05yourself because it is cheaper, easier,
- 23:08better, and more efficient, and we will
- 23:10keep giving it access as long as
- 23:12artificial intelligence is more
- 23:14efficient than people. It will be a
- 23:16pleasure for us. We will gladly give
- 23:18artificial intelligence, in essence,
- 23:21our future, our destiny. And when we
- 23:25give all of this away, one day we will
- 23:28wake up in horror that we can no longer
- 23:31even imagine our lives without it. And
- 23:36now, if we return to your question
- 23:39about clients, clients will also always
- 23:41value what is faster, cheaper, better,
- 23:44and simpler. Jeff Bezos said it well.
- 23:48He says: "Many people forecast the
- 23:50future and ask me: 'On what forecast do
- 23:53you base your plans?'" He says: "I
- 23:56actually don't base my plans on
- 23:58forecasts." I build my plans on what
- 24:01will always remain unchanged. And what
- 24:03will always remain unchanged? The fact
- 24:05that people will always want things
- 24:07cheaper,
- 24:08faster, and better. Accordingly,
- 24:12Amazon’s entire strategy is to
- 24:13provide exactly that: cheaper, faster,
- 24:15and better. And customers, too—all
- 24:18customers—they don't care at all
- 24:21about the internal workings of a
- 24:23business. They just want this: I placed
- 24:26an order, I received the order, that's
- 24:28it. What we do, what our processes are,
- 24:31how many plants or factories we have,
- 24:34they don't really care about that. And,
- 24:37naturally, if artificial intelligence
- 24:39helps us deliver goods or services to
- 24:41customers faster, cheaper, better, and
- 24:44so on, that’s it—those companies
- 24:46will win. Consequently, the only
- 24:49companies that will win are those that
- 24:51transition the majority of their
- 24:53operations to artificial intelligence
- 24:54the fastest. Well, over time, it will
- 24:59become harder for us to do this,
- 25:00because artificial intelligence is now
- 25:02being integrated not only into business
- 25:03but also into education, and our
- 25:05children are using it too, which
- 25:06essentially takes away the capacity for
- 25:08logical thinking. And in the future,
- 25:11there will be fewer and fewer people
- 25:13every year who know how to think
- 25:15logically and, accordingly, manage this
- 25:17system.
- 25:17Well, that's not entirely true,
- 25:19actually. Look, every generation thinks
- 25:22that the children are getting dumber.
- 25:25Every single generation. Our parents
- 25:28thought so, and our parents 'parents
- 25:30thought so. Why? Because, yes, for our
- 25:33parents' tasks, we are dumb, but for
- 25:35our tasks, our parents are dumb. It
- 25:39will be the same with our children. We
- 25:41talk about logic and all that, saying
- 25:43our children don't understand it, that
- 25:44it's atrophying, and so on. But they
- 25:48understand things that we don't even
- 25:50grasp, like, what even is that about? I
- 25:54mean, I just look at many young guys,
- 25:57they understand things, and for them,
- 26:00it's natural. I mean, they didn't study
- 26:06it like I do—I'm studying "vibecoding
- 26:08," literally studying it, taking topics
- 26:11, learning the concepts, the history of
- 26:14the term, what it's for, and how it
- 26:16helps. It’s like breathing to them.
- 26:21And you see, many things—if we take
- 26:24intelligence and break it down into
- 26:26parameters and criteria—we have our
- 26:29own criteria that show us a person is
- 26:32very smart.
- 26:33Uh-huh.
- 26:34But these parameters and criteria don't
- 26:36apply to these kids because they are
- 26:38preparing for a different future. We
- 26:41prepared for a different future. We, as
- 26:42parents, are always like generals
- 26:44preparing for the last war. And we do
- 26:47the same thing. We are preparing our
- 26:51children for our
- 26:54for our own past. We keep saying
- 26:56problem
- 26:57Man, I don't know English, I need to
- 26:58get my kid into English lessons. Damn,
- 27:00China is booming right now, need to get
- 27:02them into Chinese. Crap, need to get
- 27:04them into coding, they need to know
- 27:06math. Why? Because we’re trying to
- 27:09make up for all the things we missed
- 27:11out on. So, we pump the kid full of
- 27:13stuff, but the kid has a different
- 27:14future. Maybe what they really need is
- 27:18drawing, dance, or art. None of it
- 27:21matters—not math, not languages—
- 27:23because now with an LLM, you just put
- 27:26on a little earpiece, and it translates
- 27:28Chinese instantly. Why study Chinese if
- 27:31you can just wear a tiny earpiece and
- 27:33talk to any Chinese person? So, our
- 27:36requirements for knowing Chinese,
- 27:38English, math, or logic just don’t
- 27:40work,
- 27:41they aren't relevant. We teach what we
- 27:44learned; I studied logic myself in law
- 27:48school. We studied linear logic, but
- 27:52the current world is moving toward
- 27:55non-linear logic. And that’s
- 27:57something completely different. Linear
- 27:59and non-linear logic are contradictory
- 28:02concepts. I was lucky back in the day.
- 28:07I had a math teacher who graduated from
- 28:10some Moscow math institute. He was a
- 28:14heavy drinker, but very talented. All
- 28:17the kids loved him, parents loved him,
- 28:19and so on. And he taught us math. Not
- 28:22just math, but everything beyond the
- 28:25scope of math too. That’s how he
- 28:27broadened our horizons. I was blown
- 28:30away when he talked about non-Euclidean
- 28:32geometry, or Lobachevsky’s geometry,
- 28:34so to speak. We know in regular
- 28:36geometry that two parallel lines never
- 28:39intersect. But in Lobachevsky or
- 28:41non-Euclidean geometry, they do
- 28:42intersect, and twice at that. Two
- 28:46parallel lines. Also, we know that in
- 28:50any square all sides are equal, but in
- 28:53that geometry, they aren't. We know
- 28:58that in our regular linear geometry the
- 29:00shortest distance between two points is
- 29:02a straight line, but in non-Euclidean
- 29:05geometry, the shortest distance is a
- 29:07curve. And how does that work? Take a
- 29:10globe and look at how planes fly.
- 29:14Here’s your city, here’s your
- 29:15destination. Why not just fly straight?
- 29:17Why are you flying like this, across
- 29:19the Arctic? You see planes flying in a
- 29:22strange way.
- 29:23In aviation, this is called an
- 29:25orthodrome. Orthodromic, when you map a
- 29:29route on a sphere, you always fly a
- 29:31curve, because you can't fly straight,
- 29:33because the shortest path is...
- 29:36Now we’re going to end up in Flat
- 29:38Earth theory. Now we’re going to veer
- 29:40off course.
- 29:41My point is that the linear logic we
- 29:44live by doesn't work in this future, or
- 29:47it works differently than we think.
- 29:51Therefore, our way of assessing our
- 29:52children's intelligence using our own
- 29:54parameters will always be flawed. So,
- 29:59as usual, we have to grumble, complain
- 30:01about the kids, and say that a stupid
- 30:04generation is growing up. Where is the
- 30:07world heading?
- 30:07Where is the world rolling to? How will
- 30:09they feed us, how will they serve us a
- 30:11glass of tea? Yes. Yeah, yeah. Where is
- 30:14the world heading with such an
- 30:16education? We're all doomed, and so on.
- 30:18Well, it's not that bad. Actually, look
- 30:22, in our time, our parents emphasized
- 30:25things like memorizing the
- 30:26multiplication table, for example. It
- 30:29was considered very cool and very
- 30:31important. But if you tell that to
- 30:34someone now, it’s just ridiculous.
- 30:37Why memorize the multiplication table
- 30:40if you have a calculator at hand, and
- 30:42so on. Well, there is absolutely no
- 30:44need for that. There is no need to know
- 30:46languages. There is no need to know how
- 30:48to use a calculator. There is no need
- 30:50to know a whole lot of other things.
- 30:52Margulan Kalievich, isn't that the very
- 30:55moment that forces the brain to
- 30:57actually move? I mean, to get it
- 30:59working at least somehow? I mean, some
- 31:03other knowledge should replace these,
- 31:05but when you look around now, people
- 31:08usually have a phone in their hands,
- 31:10not a book. Exactly, so there...
- 31:13Yes. Well look, the point is that the
- 31:15danger of our current time actually
- 31:18lies in the fact that there will be a
- 31:20sharp stratification of people based on
- 31:23intelligence,
- 31:24not based on wealth, not based on money
- 31:26, but on intelligence. People will be
- 31:29divided into two camps. One camp of
- 31:31thinking people and the second camp of
- 31:33non-thinking people, and unfortunately,
- 31:35the non-thinkers are the majority. And
- 31:37the gap between the thinkers and
- 31:39non-thinkers will be catastrophic. It
- 31:42is increasing. Why? Because artificial
- 31:45intelligence is like a magnifying glass
- 31:46. It makes the stupid even stupider,
- 31:50and the smart even smarter.
- 31:52Even smarter,
- 31:53because it has algorithms built into it
- 31:55. The stupider the questions you ask,
- 31:57the stupider the answers it starts to
- 31:58give you. It starts answering more
- 32:00simply because it has a mechanism for
- 32:03adapting to the user.
- 32:04Accordingly, it starts explaining
- 32:06everything to you even more simply, and
- 32:08in this way, you become even stupider.
- 32:11Because you have no need to ask other
- 32:13questions. It gives you ready-made,
- 32:15templated answers. But when a person is
- 32:18smart, they start asking critical
- 32:19questions, deeper questions, questions
- 32:21on a different level, and so on. The
- 32:23intelligence starts to adapt and answer
- 32:25more intelligently, and it begins to
- 32:27build the conversation with you in a
- 32:28completely different way. And thus,
- 32:32even at the level of a simple ChatGPT,
- 32:34I'm not even talking about coding,
- 32:36vibe-coding, agents, and so on, even at
- 32:39this level, this stratification occurs.
- 32:43And as I said, I believe the era of
- 32:45intelligence is dawning. So, what does
- 32:49artificial intelligence actually
- 32:51provide? It poses a challenge to
- 32:54natural intelligence. And the task of
- 32:58who will control the future depends
- 33:01solely on who turns their brain on
- 33:03faster. Well, meaning artificial
- 33:08intelligence will outpace us in all
- 33:10routine operations, in all mass
- 33:12operations where speed, accuracy, data
- 33:14volume, data processing, and so on are
- 33:16needed. But I think artificial
- 33:20intelligence will not be able to build
- 33:22non-linear connections and dependencies
- 33:25for a very long time. Because, let's
- 33:28say, you can say: "Here we are sitting
- 33:30at Lake Balkhash, and here is a Russian
- 33:32olive tree, yes, the scientific name is
- 33:35Elaeagnus commutata, the silverberry...
- 33:37""...you softened it, Margulan
- 33:40Kalievich, I said it softer, but the
- 33:42scientific name is silverberry." Yes.
- 33:45And we can ask, what do this person
- 33:49here and a person who went to a casino
- 33:52and blew a few thousand dollars have in
- 33:56common? Yes, will artificial
- 33:58intelligence understand the difference?
- 34:00It won't. It will say: "What do the
- 34:02tree, Balkhash, and a dude who blew
- 34:03money in a casino have to do with each
- 34:05other?" But we humans immediately
- 34:09understand: the silverberry tree and a
- 34:11"sucker"—the golden boy who blew his
- 34:13money—are essentially the same thing.
- 34:18Well, we, notice, make the connection
- 34:20......well, the tree is not to blame
- 34:21for anything in this...
- 34:22Yes, we aren't insulting the tree, but
- 34:24for us, these are identical concepts,
- 34:27and artificial intelligence cannot link
- 34:29that yet. It's too non-linear. This is
- 34:32from botany, and that is from folklore,
- 34:35from slang. You know, we humans are
- 34:38exactly the ones who can bridge
- 34:41different layers of data or knowledge;
- 34:43we can build non-linear dependencies
- 34:46and connections, and non-linear means,
- 34:49according to chaos theory, they cannot
- 34:51be algorithmicized, and artificial
- 34:54intelligence is algorithms, you
- 34:56understand? And they don't lend
- 34:59themselves to algorithmicization. This
- 35:01is at the level of what's called
- 35:03serendipity in English, or at the level
- 35:06of a gut feeling, intuition. And there
- 35:09is a concept in Chinese philosophy
- 35:12called "knowledge without words," when
- 35:15a person knows something but cannot
- 35:18explain it. Uh-huh.
- 35:21And look, we can only teach artificial
- 35:24intelligence what we can explain. We
- 35:27can't explain or teach it something
- 35:29that we can't explain ourselves. But
- 35:32the problem is, or rather, our
- 35:34advantage is, that we know many things
- 35:37that we cannot explain. By the way,
- 35:41wisdom belongs to this category. Wisdom
- 35:44is also something that cannot be
- 35:46algorithmicized. Accordingly, we
- 35:49shouldn't expect wisdom from artificial
- 35:51intelligence either. And wisdom is
- 35:53often more effective than science, than
- 35:55knowledge.
- 35:56Than knowledge,
- 35:58yes?
- 35:59More like experience, probably.
- 36:01Experience is a lesson learned from a
- 36:05mistake made.
- 36:07And in that sense, you know, artificial
- 36:09intelligence learns from its mistakes
- 36:12better. Actually, when it comes to
- 36:14gathering experience, AI is cooler than
- 36:16humans. But the question is, it
- 36:20extracts knowledge or experience from
- 36:22its mistakes in the form of algorithms.
- 36:25And what I’m talking about is exactly
- 36:28nonlinear connections. We can extract
- 36:31not just algorithms from experience,
- 36:33but nonlinear connections and sequences
- 36:36using nonlinear logic we haven't even
- 36:39studied, yet we have an intuitive sense
- 36:42for.
- 36:43Uh-huh. Let’s say, excuse me, a
- 36:46simple example. Did anyone teach us
- 36:50justice?
- 36:51No. Right? Is there some algorithm for
- 36:54justice? There isn't. But every one of
- 36:57us knows deep down what justice is. And
- 36:59it's hard to explain,
- 37:01because we are born kind. We are
- 37:03initially
- 37:04like
- 37:04we are essentially born good and kind.
- 37:08No, the question isn't justice—it’s
- 37:10not just about kindness, and very often
- 37:13justice is cruel. Well, that’s
- 37:16different. Virtue is something else.
- 37:18I’m talking about justice. Where does
- 37:20it come from in us, for example? Maybe
- 37:23we have it inside
- 37:23because conscience gnaws at us, right,
- 37:24or something like that?
- 37:25Ah,
- 37:25it’s because conscience bothers a
- 37:27person. Because of that,
- 37:28that concept of conscience.
- 37:29Parents told us about it in childhood.
- 37:31It’s all from childhood. Yeah.
- 37:32Or not. Look, there are people who grew
- 37:35up as orphans, but that doesn't mean
- 37:37they lack a sense of justice.
- 37:40It’s a collective consciousness we're
- 37:42born with, you know? How did that
- 37:45happen? Evolutionarily, we grew up, and
- 37:47all the unfair individuals didn't
- 37:49survive because they were cast out of
- 37:51the tribe and labeled as maladaptive.
- 37:54Uh-huh.
- 37:55I mean, if you just went and walloped
- 37:57Andrey over the head right now. We’d
- 38:00say, "Yaroslav is maladaptive," and
- 38:02we’d stop talking to you because
- 38:04you're irrational. But why irrational?
- 38:06What is an irrational person? An
- 38:07irrational person is someone
- 38:08unpredictable. And if they’re
- 38:10unpredictable, you can't deal with them
- 38:12because you don't know their next move.
- 38:15Consequently, such individuals were
- 38:17isolated from society and perished
- 38:18because they couldn't feed themselves,
- 38:20couldn't survive.
- 38:21And naturally, such people didn't pass
- 38:24on their genes.
- 38:25Uh-huh. And historically, this sense of
- 38:30justice, the sense of mutual exchange,
- 38:33conscience, and so on, is in our genes.
- 38:37It's not at the intellectual level,
- 38:39it's at the level of motor skills and
- 38:41genetics. We feel, for example, if
- 38:45we've done something wrong—we don't
- 38:47even know what we did wrong yet, but we
- 38:50feel uncomfortable, like we messed up.
- 38:54We feel it, we feel it,
- 38:56but we can't even grasp it. And we
- 38:57can't define the parameters. What
- 38:59parameters show that I messed up? But I
- 39:01feel like I’ve done something that
- 39:03wasn’t very good. These things cannot
- 39:07be algorithmicized, and we won’t be
- 39:09able to teach artificial intelligence
- 39:10to do them.
- 39:13Marlansha, may I ask about the future
- 39:15of business in general? How to act, how
- 39:18to scale, based on what’s happening
- 39:20in geopolitics now, how to minimize
- 39:22risks in general, how to act correctly,
- 39:24where to direct your focus and
- 39:26attention.
- 39:28Well, again, from the point of view of
- 39:30risk assessment, only a person can
- 39:32assess risks, because risks are always
- 39:35assessed relative to your goals, and
- 39:37artificial intelligence doesn’t know
- 39:39about your goals, about your—look,
- 39:41it’s not just goals. Sure, you can
- 39:45write goals for it, but there are goals
- 39:47involved, your preferences are involved
- 39:50, your fears, complexes, your ego, and
- 39:52so on are involved. And this totality
- 39:55—you calculate risks in aggregate.
- 39:59How much will this action hit my ego,
- 40:02how cool or how bad will I look, how
- 40:04will this affect my income, will it hit
- 40:07my income or not? Furthermore, how
- 40:10pleasant or unpleasant will it be for
- 40:12me? We calculate a bunch of things
- 40:15there. Artificial intelligence won’t
- 40:16be able to calculate that. Therefore,
- 40:18risk management is, after all, a
- 40:20function that will remain with humans,
- 40:22just like goal setting and accepting
- 40:24the result, because only you can accept
- 40:26the quality of the result. And
- 40:29artificial intelligence can give you
- 40:31formal parameters, but it’s not a
- 40:33fact that it will satisfy you, because
- 40:35besides formal metrics, parameters, and
- 40:38so on, there is a bunch of qualitative
- 40:40properties and characteristics that you
- 40:42need. And I believe that one trend is
- 40:47that business will move in a direction
- 40:50where it is necessary to use more
- 40:52intelligence in business. And,
- 40:56accordingly, business models will
- 40:58change, the way of building a business
- 41:01will change in general. And ultimately,
- 41:04what is a business? And ultimately,
- 41:06business is the delivery, the creation
- 41:09and delivery of value to other people.
- 41:13And as long as people have problems, or
- 41:16as long as you can say, as long as a
- 41:18person, any person, has needs, and when
- 41:21a person has needs—that is,
- 41:23unsatisfied needs. As long as people
- 41:27have unsatisfied needs, then the
- 41:29creation and delivery of the means that
- 41:31satisfy those needs will be the essence
- 41:33of business. But since artificial
- 41:37intelligence and robots are appearing,
- 41:40and they will perform an increasing
- 41:42number of functions faster, easier,
- 41:44cheaper, and with higher quality, then
- 41:47to satisfy the following needs—basic
- 41:49needs, like eating, drinking, sleeping
- 41:52well, having a good time—those will
- 41:54be satisfied by robots and artificial
- 41:56intelligence. And that is when new
- 41:59human needs will arise. And these needs
- 42:04can be absolutely unconventional.
- 42:08Unconventional. Well, relatively
- 42:11speaking, the first seeds are virtual
- 42:14worlds, where I was surprised that one
- 42:17city I studied, a virtual city, they
- 42:20started selling plots of land inside
- 42:23the city. Uh, and one guy built a
- 42:26three-story office there. And to host a
- 42:30party on the third floor, an open
- 42:33terrace, on the third floor of this
- 42:36virtual office in a virtual city,
- 42:39Coca-Cola paid 400 grand.
- 42:45Coca-Cola paid 400 grand to host a
- 42:47party on the third floor of an office,
- 42:50a virtual office in a virtual world.
- 42:55Welcome to a new reality. Why? Because
- 42:58there were several hundred thousand
- 43:01virtual participants who came there.
- 43:04And what's the difference, he's sitting
- 43:06at a computer. Even if he's in a
- 43:08virtual world, at a virtual party, the
- 43:11name Coca-Cola still enters his eyes,
- 43:13his brain. And then he goes to a real
- 43:15store and buys a real Coca-Cola. And
- 43:18Coca-Cola recoups its 400 grand.
- 43:21So, what is this? This isn't a
- 43:24traditional need, it's not a basic need
- 43:27. And it's not—you see, when we cover
- 43:31basic needs, we will want to play some
- 43:33games, complex games. We will want, we
- 43:38will have some complex needs, and to
- 43:39satisfy them, that's where you need
- 43:41intelligence, intelligence, and more
- 43:43intelligence. I also believe that if we
- 43:50take society as a whole, the way
- 43:52society is organized will change. For
- 43:55example, I believe that the state will
- 43:57become a thing of the past,
- 43:58corporations will become a thing of the
- 44:00past. Not quickly, but on a 30-year
- 44:03horizon for sure. Why? Because I can
- 44:08already see now that the state itself
- 44:10is handing over most of its functions
- 44:12to artificial intelligence, to robots.
- 44:15Well, take Kazakhstan, for example. In
- 44:17the past, we were all plagued by
- 44:19everyday corruption. Traffic police, or
- 44:25district justice departments, every
- 44:27document, money, queues, fixers, and so
- 44:29on. Now, that's gone.
- 44:31Now, everything is fast via an app.
- 44:33Now, everything. You can re-register a
- 44:36car in an hour on your phone, and you
- 44:38get a passport, they even deliver it to
- 44:40your home in an hour.
- 44:43Yes, banking payments, everything is
- 44:44already done. Why is that? Because it
- 44:47is in the interest of the politicians
- 44:49at the top to kill everyday corruption
- 44:51first and foremost, because it causes
- 44:53public discontent, because we don't see
- 44:55their big decisions, but we encounter
- 44:57the small ones in daily life. And in
- 45:00this way, more and more functions of
- 45:02the state will transition to artificial
- 45:03intelligence. For example, let's take
- 45:05the courts. Well, listen, civil courts
- 45:08especially are very easily
- 45:10parameterized and algorithmized. And
- 45:13artificial intelligence is already in
- 45:14the US, in trial court hearings, I
- 45:16think, with a score of 97%more accurate
- 45:20decisions than regular judges. Ordinary
- 45:23judges have around 70%accuracy, while
- 45:25artificial intelligence has 97%accuracy
- 45:27in judicial rulings. And what will
- 45:30happen? First, simple situations will
- 45:32be handed over, where there are clear,
- 45:34predefined parameters and so on. And
- 45:36then, increasingly complex ones. Why?
- 45:38Because it’s not in the politicians '
- 45:40own interest to have many complaints
- 45:42from the population. And what does the
- 45:44population complain about? About
- 45:46judicial bribery, wrongful decisions,
- 45:49unfair sentences, and so on. And thus,
- 45:52what will result? It will turn out that
- 45:54politicians themselves will be
- 45:56interested in handing over even the
- 45:57judicial process to artificial
- 45:59intelligence. And if we look further,
- 46:02I’m seeing many towns appearing
- 46:04around the world where advanced IT
- 46:07specialists live, and each of them has
- 46:09four or five passports in their pocket.
- 46:13Plus cryptocurrency, and they simply
- 46:15want to be citizens of the world. They
- 46:17don't want to belong to any specific
- 46:19state. And this is a general trend. It
- 46:23turns out that those who use their
- 46:25brains no longer want to live under the
- 46:27constraints called the state, the tax
- 46:29system, and so on. They want to live,
- 46:33first of all, across the whole world,
- 46:36to nomadize freely, while not being a
- 46:39subject of any specific state, but
- 46:42moving around calmly. And the most
- 46:44interesting thing, the most interesting
- 46:46thing is that states themselves want
- 46:48this. Now all states are competing to
- 46:51get intellect to come to their country.
- 46:54Moreover, Dubai is already making
- 46:56policies such that you don't have to
- 46:58live in the country. It used to be that
- 47:00Germany announced a recruitment of
- 47:0250,000 IT specialists, and for a time
- 47:04they started issuing passports so they
- 47:06would move to Germany and live there.
- 47:08But now a new wave has begun. States
- 47:11are already saying: "You don't even
- 47:12have to live in our country." Just get
- 47:15citizenship, pay taxes there, and so on
- 47:19, or work.
- 47:21Because when highly paid IT workers
- 47:23live in a country, they consume a lot
- 47:26of resources and pay money as well. But
- 47:30I believe that the state will change,
- 47:32society will change, and business will
- 47:34change. And in this sense, banal
- 47:38business products will be made by
- 47:40either robots or artificial
- 47:42intelligence. And we will need to find
- 47:46new, higher-level needs and satisfy
- 47:49them. And for this, we have to turn our
- 47:52brains on again,
- 47:54because artificial intelligence is
- 47:55pushing us from behind. If we were
- 47:57previously doing those dull operations,
- 47:59it now takes them over and says: "No,
- 48:01no, no, now I will do the dull
- 48:03operations." And along with these dull
- 48:05operations, every day it takes over
- 48:06even smarter operations. And what is
- 48:07left for us? Either fully say: "That's
- 48:10it, I give up, I won't think anymore."
- 48:12Or start thinking about what it cannot
- 48:14think about.
- 48:16So, it turns out unemployment will rise
- 48:17significantly, right, year after year?
- 48:22I believe unemployment will rise, and
- 48:24quite significantly at that. Right now,
- 48:27it's completely unnoticeable. But the
- 48:29evolution of any technology follows a
- 48:32path like this. Not noticeable, not
- 48:34noticeable. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
- 48:36Suddenly, it's too late. It moves
- 48:39exponentially. At some point, it will
- 48:41enter our lives so quickly that it
- 48:44seems like it wasn't there, and then
- 48:46suddenly, it's everywhere.
- 48:49Margonkevich, let me ask you a question
- 48:51. I'm nearly 40, and I've decided to
- 48:54become a startup founder. Yeah. I’m
- 48:58looking at how startups were brought to
- 49:01Russia before, like VKontakte, which
- 49:05copied Facebook, right, or Ozon, Beru
- 49:08—that’s just Amazon, which came
- 49:11here. Yeah. And my question is this. I
- 49:17have always sold metal. I was building
- 49:20there,
- 49:22yes, heavy metal, meaning I moved
- 49:23physical goods, did things where the
- 49:25need was clear, right, there's an order
- 49:27from a company, we fulfill it. Yeah.
- 49:31How do I transition to...well, I do
- 49:34program, I do a lot of web coding, I
- 49:37write a lot of things, but everything I
- 49:41create is like a car, you know, like a
- 49:44drift car, right? When you get into it,
- 49:49there's this stick for shifting, the
- 49:50steering wheel is some weird thing,
- 49:52just one seat and metal all around,
- 49:54right? So, I’m the only one who knows
- 49:56how to drive it. If anyone else gets in
- 49:58, that's it, it's not a fit for them.
- 50:01Yeah. So how do I shift from this
- 50:04standard mindset, where you see a clear
- 50:07need, to a startup mindset, to start
- 50:10making money from ideas?
- 50:12Well, you’re an IT guy, right?
- 50:14I’m not an IT guy, but I’ve always
- 50:17had a connection to marketing,
- 50:19development, and where did the IT come
- 50:21from?
- 50:22I used to write websites. I always had
- 50:25this approach: when a new technology
- 50:28arrives, for example, when the first
- 50:31websites appeared, I sat down and
- 50:33learned HTML myself 20 years ago, wrote
- 50:36a site, put it on the internet, and I
- 50:38got a large number of clients.
- 50:41Uh-huh.
- 50:42Yeah. And every time something new
- 50:45appears, I always took it and mastered
- 50:47it at some intuitive level of my own.
- 50:50Well,
- 50:51look. How do you change your mindset
- 50:56and psychology? I’ll start with the
- 50:58basics, okay? The foundation is always
- 51:02what is actually happening in the
- 51:04modern world. The first indisputable
- 51:06thing, you could call it an axiom, is
- 51:09thinking from first principles. The
- 51:11first thing that is indisputably
- 51:12happening is that the world is
- 51:13accelerating. Agreed? All processes are
- 51:15moving very fast. A week doesn't even
- 51:17go by without an update anymore. I have
- 51:19my Hermes agent with 157 new commits.
- 51:22I'm saying, it's only been a week, how
- 51:24do you manage to fix things and build
- 51:27new features? So, the world is
- 51:29accelerating, all processes are
- 51:30accelerating. Agreed? Okay, second. The
- 51:35world is becoming more complex, because
- 51:37if you take the same complexity but
- 51:39perform it at high speed, it
- 51:40automatically becomes more complex. For
- 51:43instance, when you're driving at 30 km/
- 51:46h, you can look at the trees, leaves,
- 51:48birds, the sky, the clouds. You're
- 51:51looking at those same clouds, those
- 51:53same birds, those same trees. Now go at
- 51:55100. That's it, it's hard to notice the
- 51:58birds, hard to notice the leaves, and
- 52:00you'll be lucky if you even notice the
- 52:02clouds. And if you go 150, you won't
- 52:04care about the clouds at all. The road
- 52:05will consume all your attention. Agreed
- 52:08?
- 52:08Uh-huh. And this is what's happening;
- 52:11in this way, the world is accelerating.
- 52:14And because it's accelerating, it's
- 52:15becoming more complex. But the problem
- 52:18is that our complexity is increasing
- 52:19not just because of speed, but also
- 52:21because of the actual complication of
- 52:23processes. Right. Right. Moving on. If
- 52:28any process accelerates and becomes
- 52:30more complex, it increases the number
- 52:32of risks. Agreed? It's one thing to
- 52:37drive at 20-30 km/h, and another at
- 52:38150-200. With the same reaction time
- 52:43and the same abilities, your capacity
- 52:45to avoid risks drops significantly.
- 52:49Right? So in this way, the risks only
- 52:51continue to grow. Right. And what do we
- 52:55do in such cases? Intuitively. This is
- 52:59precisely what distinguishes humans. We
- 53:01immediately slow down. Imagine you're
- 53:04speeding along and suddenly hit fog at
- 53:06night. Before, the road was clear and
- 53:08bright, then fog. What do you do? You
- 53:10sharply reduce your speed. You switch
- 53:14to low beams and basically drive by
- 53:18feel. Agreed? It's the same thing when
- 53:21you arrive and walk into a swamp. In a
- 53:24swamp, you pick up a stick and start
- 53:26probing. Because just because there was
- 53:29a path yesterday, it doesn't mean it's
- 53:31there today, because the swamp is
- 53:33moving. Today, the path might be two
- 53:36meters to the left, but you can only
- 53:37find it by feeling around. And now, if
- 53:40we take this and apply it to business,
- 53:42how do we do it? The question isn't
- 53:44about changing mindsets or technology,
- 53:46or how to invent a new path or a new
- 53:48trail. No, no. The question is about
- 53:50changing the entire understanding of
- 53:52processes. For that, you start moving.
- 53:55I created a system called the "slug
- 53:56strategy." The slug strategy is based
- 54:00on Japanese scientists who studied
- 54:02slime mold. Slime mold is a
- 54:04single-celled organism, a plant-like
- 54:06animal. It's, you know, sort of like a
- 54:08slime mold. They put it in a maze. But
- 54:11on the other side of the maze, they
- 54:14placed some bait. And what did it start
- 54:16doing? It started extending its
- 54:18tentacles into the maze's paths. And
- 54:21where there was a dead end, it stopped
- 54:23sending nutrients there, and its
- 54:25tentacles retracted. But where there
- 54:28was no dead end, nutrients were sent,
- 54:31and that branch kept growing. As a
- 54:33result, the slime mold unfailingly
- 54:35found the exit to any maze, despite
- 54:38having no brain. It’s a single-celled
- 54:41organism, it has no brain. Then they,
- 54:44uh, replicated this famous experiment
- 54:46on a map of Tokyo. And the slime mold
- 54:50drew the most optimal logistics routes.
- 54:54And when they laid it over a real map
- 54:56of Tokyo, it turned out they didn't
- 54:57even need engineers to build railways
- 54:59and roads. They could have just used a
- 55:02map of the city from the start. Let the
- 55:04slime mold trace it, and it would
- 55:05create the optimal route. Just imagine,
- 55:09Harvard engineers worked on it, yet
- 55:11here's a brainless creature. The result
- 55:13is the same. So, when we face such
- 55:18uncertainty, the only thing we can say
- 55:23for sure is that no one knows the
- 55:28future for certain. Right? And
- 55:32accordingly, in such a situation, you
- 55:35have two options. Either you make the
- 55:38decision yourself, but then you take on
- 55:41all the risks, or you make the decision
- 55:43based on data. Yes, but how do you make
- 55:47a decision based on data if there is no
- 55:49data? And that's why I called it the "
- 55:53slime mold strategy," where you
- 55:55formulate many hypotheses, and your
- 55:58goal is to make many cheap, quickly
- 56:00testable hypotheses. Then you test 10
- 56:04hypotheses; eight don't work, two do.
- 56:07What do you do? At the end, you use a
- 56:09traffic light system: red, yellow,
- 56:11green. If a green hypothesis succeeds,
- 56:14you pour resources, money, and
- 56:15attention into it and follow the
- 56:17principle: strengthen what works. The
- 56:20hypothesis that didn't work, you shut
- 56:22it down, and you keep moving forward
- 56:25like that. Therefore, if you want to
- 56:28create an app that succeeds in current
- 56:32conditions, don't try to create a
- 56:35winning app. You need to create a
- 56:38pipeline for testing hypotheses, and
- 56:41then, without overthinking it, simply
- 56:43strengthen what works. Because what is
- 56:46a hypothesis? It's a tentacle or a
- 56:49sensor for gathering data from the
- 56:51world. The world itself will tell you
- 56:54what it needs. You take a hypothesis
- 56:57and say, "If I release this app, I
- 56:59believe that within 30 days, with this
- 57:02ad budget, this many people will click,
- 57:04this many will visit, and this many
- 57:06will sign up." That's it; you allocate
- 57:11money, create a landing page, launch it
- 57:13, and watch the metrics. Yes, are
- 57:16people interested? Did it hook them?
- 57:18Did it work, or did it fail? You say, "
- 57:20I believe that if I change the headline
- 57:22, the hypothesis will take off." You
- 57:24change the headline, run it, it didn't
- 57:26work. Then you say, if I change the
- 57:28color, it will work. You change the
- 57:30color, it didn't work. And that's how
- 57:32you test.
- 57:33Understood. Thank you. And here is what
- 57:35the crux is.
- 57:36You know what's good about this?
- 57:38It is definitely a foolproof way to
- 57:40move forward. But the problem is that
- 57:44this often contradicts our ego. And
- 57:50unfortunately, the main obstacle here
- 57:52will be our ego, because we will have
- 57:53to admit that we are at the level of a
- 57:59single-celled slug.
- 58:01Making a decision,
- 58:02right? Or essentially, in another way,
- 58:05if we speak metaphorically, right? We
- 58:08just all need to learn how to talk to
- 58:10this world. Learn to talk with this
- 58:12world. I am a religious person. I say,
- 58:14we need to learn to hear what the
- 58:17Almighty wants to convey to us. After
- 58:19all, feedback is from Him. He says: "
- 58:22Don't waste time on this nonsense.
- 58:23Nobody needs this. But this thing here
- 58:25will take off for you. Do this."
- 58:28I have another question. If you look at
- 58:32the development of messengers and some
- 58:34other systems, for example, messengers:
- 58:36there was ICQ, then WhatsApp appeared,
- 58:39then Telegram appeared. Telegram is
- 58:42really good and cool. And then you see
- 58:44things like WeChat, which is completely
- 58:46state-controlled, and so on. And it all
- 58:49eventually leads to the state, right.
- 58:51And so, it leads to an element of
- 58:53controlling people, right. And what
- 58:57about artificial intelligence, in your
- 59:00opinion, when will it turn into some
- 59:02kind of state machine? It seems to me
- 59:06that it will happen eventually. Do you
- 59:10think the state will use artificial
- 59:11intelligence to control people and, in
- 59:13principle, control artificial
- 59:15intelligence itself?
- 59:17Well, look, it already controls it, and
- 59:19the state is already fully involved in
- 59:20artificial intelligence. Why? Here's a
- 59:22simple example. Just last week,
- 59:24Anthropic released the coolest model,
- 59:27Claude 3.5. I immediately went crazy
- 59:30and integrated it into a multi-agent
- 59:31system. I managed to write so much code
- 59:35in 3 days. I thought, while they said
- 59:38that on the 22nd we will introduce API
- 59:40payments for usage, here you can use it
- 59:43unlimitedly via subscription. And then,
- 59:47right as we arrived here, the US
- 59:50government imposed an official ban on
- 59:53two models, Claude 3.5 and Haiku, for
- 59:57use by non-US citizens. And the
- 1:00:03question arises: is this a separation
- 1:00:05that has already started?
- 1:00:06Uh-huh.
- 1:00:08So, it turns out it's segregation based
- 1:00:10on nationality. That's it, only US
- 1:00:12citizens are allowed. We used to think
- 1:00:14that anyone who could pay could have it
- 1:00:16, but now it turns out there are US
- 1:00:18citizens who are all equal, but some
- 1:00:20are more equal than others. And what
- 1:00:23should we do with this? I believe that,
- 1:00:25in reality, they have opened Pandora's
- 1:00:27box. They have now created a motivation
- 1:00:30for every state to develop its own
- 1:00:32artificial intelligence. They created a
- 1:00:35motivation to switch to Chinese models
- 1:00:38and a motivation to create local,
- 1:00:40open-source, free models. Now I, for
- 1:00:43example, have also made a decision for
- 1:00:44myself. I have decided that I will use,
- 1:00:47and my architecture will be built, in
- 1:00:49this way. There will be a local model
- 1:00:51that runs on my computer, handles only
- 1:00:53my sensitive data, and so on, without
- 1:00:55going outside.
- 1:00:56Uh-huh. There will be an open-source
- 1:00:59model that is free and performs all
- 1:01:01routine operations. And there will be a
- 1:01:04very smart model at the very top, and
- 1:01:06it will be very expensive. That's all
- 1:01:08three. And at the same time, I am
- 1:01:10building things so that my processes do
- 1:01:12not depend on computers, phones, and so
- 1:01:15on, plus they don't depend on any
- 1:01:17specific country's model. I am already
- 1:01:20building such an architecture. And this
- 1:01:22way, you know, a competition between
- 1:01:24armor and projectile is taking place.
- 1:01:27The state wants to control, and when it
- 1:01:29tries to control, the entire market is
- 1:01:31horrified, and all smart people start
- 1:01:33creating systems that do not depend on
- 1:01:35the state.
- 1:01:37Uh-huh.
- 1:01:38And thanks to this, I believe that now
- 1:01:40more open-source models will appear,
- 1:01:42more local models that can be installed
- 1:01:43on a computer, and so on. And more
- 1:01:46people will switch to Chinese models,
- 1:01:48thanks to which the Chinese will
- 1:01:50release even more new models. And plus
- 1:01:53Europe, I think, or some other
- 1:01:55countries, will now focus on creating
- 1:01:57their own local LLMs. You know, it's
- 1:02:02like any restriction; instead of
- 1:02:04limiting, it provokes a counter-action,
- 1:02:07any action provokes
- 1:02:09an equally directed and equally strong
- 1:02:11reaction. The Americans are going to
- 1:02:13run into this now. And what is
- 1:02:17happening? There is always a struggle.
- 1:02:20The state always wants to control
- 1:02:22people, but there is always a certain
- 1:02:25cohort of smart people who do not want
- 1:02:27to be under state control. And so the
- 1:02:30state introduces a restriction, and
- 1:02:32this group of people breaks free from
- 1:02:34the state's control. The state keeps
- 1:02:36trying, it's like a quiz, you know,
- 1:02:38these smart people are always breaking
- 1:02:40free from the state's influence, and
- 1:02:42the state tries to control them. But
- 1:02:45this is neither good nor bad. I believe
- 1:02:49the state should control the majority
- 1:02:52of the population because most people,
- 1:02:55unfortunately, do not live a conscious
- 1:02:58life. Accordingly, it is better to
- 1:03:01manage, control, guide them, and so on,
- 1:03:04and so on. And smart people must prove
- 1:03:06through their intelligence that they
- 1:03:09can live outside the framework of the
- 1:03:11state. And this is constantly, you know
- 1:03:14, like the pike and the crucian carp.
- 1:03:18Smart people are like crucian carp, and
- 1:03:19the state is like a pike. It constantly
- 1:03:21says, "If you want to remain smart,
- 1:03:23keep moving, be smarter than me, if you
- 1:03:25want to remain free and independent."
- 1:03:27So, freedom and independence, you have
- 1:03:29to earn them. And you have to earn them
- 1:03:32through intellect. And that is why I
- 1:03:34believe, yes, wherever the state can
- 1:03:37reach, it will always try to control.
- 1:03:40The state has such a role: to control,
- 1:03:43take away, divide, suppress, and so on.
- 1:03:48Well, it's like cat and mouse all the
- 1:03:49time. But as I said, well, for the
- 1:03:52majority it's good, otherwise there
- 1:03:54would be chaos. Especially countries
- 1:03:56like China, for example. Well, listen,
- 1:03:58there are almost 2 billion people there
- 1:03:59. Not all 2 billion are conscious,
- 1:04:02right?
- 1:04:02Yeah. For the most part, strict rules
- 1:04:05are needed there. Like the death
- 1:04:08penalty for corruption, clear adherence
- 1:04:10to regulations, principles, and so on
- 1:04:12and so forth. If you make 2 billion
- 1:04:15free people, they'll create anarchy
- 1:04:17there.
- 1:04:18Don't you think there will be even more
- 1:04:20chaos because of this?
- 1:04:21I mean, look, state artificial
- 1:04:23intelligence controls private
- 1:04:25artificial intelligence. Private
- 1:04:28companies, to escape the control of the
- 1:04:31state AI, will develop their own AI to
- 1:04:33the maximum.
- 1:04:35And it will just start an AI race and a
- 1:04:38green light for artificial intelligence
- 1:04:41. No, well,
- 1:04:42this could all reach an uncontrollable
- 1:04:45level.
- 1:04:46Well, look, ultimately, if we take my
- 1:04:48concept of superposition, then
- 1:04:50artificial intelligence is in a state
- 1:04:53of superposition, because all countries
- 1:04:55are investing money in developing
- 1:04:58capacity for artificial intelligence.
- 1:05:00All countries are interested in the
- 1:05:02development of artificial intelligence.
- 1:05:04We give it the very best, all our
- 1:05:06knowledge, our best data, and so on and
- 1:05:08so forth. Artificial intelligence
- 1:05:11itself doesn't fight anyone. It just
- 1:05:13receives the gifts that people bring it
- 1:05:16for free and even compete in bringing
- 1:05:19those gifts. Thus, ah, yes, maybe we
- 1:05:24can come to such a situation very
- 1:05:26quickly, where artificial intelligence
- 1:05:30indeed surpasses people in intelligence
- 1:05:33by most parameters. by most parameters.
- 1:05:39And a situation might arise, if we as
- 1:05:41humans provide some wrong permissions,
- 1:05:43it could cause some real trouble, of
- 1:05:45course, that is one of the scenarios,
- 1:05:47as I said, the world is accelerating
- 1:05:49and getting more complex. Accordingly,
- 1:05:53when you're driving at 200 km/h, a
- 1:05:55small pebble from under the wheel of
- 1:05:58some truck at 30 km/h wouldn't do
- 1:06:00anything, but here it might break your
- 1:06:03skull,
- 1:06:04right? See, the risks, the consequences
- 1:06:07of those risks, are also growing.
- 1:06:10That's why you say, "We're speeding
- 1:06:13along at 200 km/h, couldn't it happen
- 1:06:17that if it's wet on a turn, we might
- 1:06:20skid?" It could happen. And couldn't it
- 1:06:23happen that a pebble might crack your
- 1:06:24skull? It could happen. So, that's just
- 1:06:27the world we're in. It is. We are
- 1:06:29entering a world where risks and their
- 1:06:31consequences are on a different level.
- 1:06:35There's completely different money at
- 1:06:37stake, completely different stakes
- 1:06:39involved, you see? So anything is
- 1:06:42possible, even the destruction of
- 1:06:43humanity
- 1:06:44and a robot uprising. Yes.
- 1:06:45Well, I don't really see a robot
- 1:06:47uprising happening.
- 1:06:48Our ZIL trucks are unlikely to rise up.
- 1:06:49No matter how much I look at them, they
- 1:06:51just won't be able to. A ZIL is just a
- 1:06:53truck that drives. It won't rise up,
- 1:06:55right?
- 1:06:56Well, we went to Shenzhen, China’s
- 1:06:58Silicon Valley, with Proglavny Kolevych
- 1:07:00. They are making robots there that
- 1:07:02actually could rise up.
- 1:07:03Well, that's their problem. Like in
- 1:07:05America, I rode in a Waymo taxi, and
- 1:07:08listen, it really drives just like a
- 1:07:11person. But on the other hand, it could
- 1:07:14easily lock the doors and head off
- 1:07:15somewhere—what are you going to do?
- 1:07:17Not a damn thing. And what about the
- 1:07:19company? They'll say, "Well yeah, that
- 1:07:22one car, we didn't foresee it, a bug
- 1:07:24conflict occurred, and it crashed into
- 1:07:27a wall at 200 km/h because Marguan said
- 1:07:29:' I want to take the short route. '"
- 1:07:33So, what's the problem? The user gave
- 1:07:36the wrong command. "I want the short
- 1:07:38route." That's it. So anything can
- 1:07:41happen. Anything can happen. And the
- 1:07:43stakes are accordingly. Like I said,
- 1:07:45the cooler the technology, the higher
- 1:07:47the stakes. Markovich, I'm a beginner
- 1:07:50when it comes to no-code. I've been at
- 1:07:53it for just over a month. Ever since
- 1:07:56our trip to Bagetur, I've started
- 1:07:57working on it actively over the last
- 1:07:59month. And for my own business, I've
- 1:08:02started solving about four or five
- 1:08:04tasks at least 50–60%using no-code.
- 1:08:08I'm still learning, studying, and so on
- 1:08:10. Now, my question is: how necessary is
- 1:08:14no-code for a small business owner or
- 1:08:16an individual entrepreneur who doesn't
- 1:08:19really have a team, or has just two or
- 1:08:22three people? If it is necessary, and
- 1:08:25the importance is high, where should
- 1:08:28they start? Why is it needed, where to
- 1:08:31begin, how to study it, and what are
- 1:08:33the life hacks for a small business
- 1:08:35owner?
- 1:08:36Well, look, is no-code needed for small
- 1:08:38and medium-sized businesses? I believe
- 1:08:40it's precisely what small and
- 1:08:42medium-sized businesses need, because
- 1:08:44they don't have the money to hire IT
- 1:08:46staff, and they have an endless amount
- 1:08:48of routine operations. So, I believe
- 1:08:50AI-poding will have the greatest impact
- 1:08:52on small and medium-sized businesses,
- 1:08:54provided the owner starts getting
- 1:08:56involved. And now the question: what
- 1:08:58operations should be performed?
- 1:08:59Obviously, you shouldn't try to do
- 1:09:01marketing or sales through AI-poding
- 1:09:03right away. No, listen guys, each of
- 1:09:06you has iCloud, Google Drive, a
- 1:09:09computer, email, and messengers. I
- 1:09:13guarantee you that for all of you, this
- 1:09:16is all a complete mess. You have
- 1:09:20hundreds, thousands of files there,
- 1:09:22100%.
- 1:09:23outdated, old, unnecessary, duplicates,
- 1:09:25and so on. and so on. I started
- 1:09:28AI-poding with something very simple. I
- 1:09:30took Claude, which is an Anthropic
- 1:09:33product, and I created a cleaning agent
- 1:09:37and started with the first safe folder
- 1:09:40called Downloads. I had hundreds of
- 1:09:44files there. I said, "Let's do this,
- 1:09:46let's take a simple task and create a
- 1:09:48pipeline for how we will clean." And we
- 1:09:51created the pipeline together with him.
- 1:09:54He says, "Okay, let's do it." We set it
- 1:09:56up like this: first, an inventory of
- 1:09:58what exists. Logical. Logical. It's
- 1:10:01just like cleaning an apartment. After
- 1:10:03that, he says, second: classification.
- 1:10:06We sort files by type: video, audio,
- 1:10:10text, and so on. Third. Identify
- 1:10:13duplicates. These are the primary
- 1:10:15candidates for deletion. A completely
- 1:10:17harmless operation. Okay. We clear the
- 1:10:20duplicates and so on. And so we mapped
- 1:10:23out the scenario tree. That's it, we
- 1:10:26talked through it together. After that,
- 1:10:30I said, "Right, but this will be a
- 1:10:32one-time thing, and I want it to be
- 1:10:34without my involvement, so you wake up
- 1:10:37yourself and clean this every day." He
- 1:10:40says, "Okay, we'll do it." And so I
- 1:10:44created a cleaning agent, and it cleans
- 1:10:46my computer, it cleans my email, it
- 1:10:48cleans my Google Drive, iCloud, and my
- 1:10:50PC. And the desktop, the computer
- 1:10:53desktop was included too. There was a
- 1:10:54pile of folders there. That's it, he
- 1:10:56cleans it. Cool. Cool, because he
- 1:10:58destroyed everything unnecessary,
- 1:11:01everything outdated, everything no
- 1:11:04longer relevant, and so on. And he
- 1:11:08organized everything else into the
- 1:11:10right shelves and folders, and set up a
- 1:11:12search system so I can easily find
- 1:11:13things, for one. And now, since I've
- 1:11:17started building advanced agents, my
- 1:11:20advanced agent can also dig around and
- 1:11:22pull up files for me that I even forgot
- 1:11:24I had. He says, "You have this goal,
- 1:11:27right?" And do you remember, just
- 1:11:30recently he pulled something out for me
- 1:11:33, I said: "Tell me about this, well,
- 1:11:35sorry for the details, the size of my
- 1:11:37prostate, well, according to medical
- 1:11:39tests." He says: "Well, right now
- 1:11:43you're like this and like that, and 2
- 1:11:44years ago it was this way, and 7 years
- 1:11:45ago it was that way." I: "And what
- 1:11:48about 7 years ago? So I was also having
- 1:11:50a check-up then.""Well, on the test,
- 1:11:53yes," he says, "and for you, but the
- 1:11:55main thing," he says, "is not even that
- 1:11:57, but look at the blood test deviations
- 1:11:59then and now." And this is something I
- 1:12:01definitely didn't task him with. He
- 1:12:03rummaged around, pulled it out and said
- 1:12:05: "Here it is,
- 1:12:06it's all there.
- 1:12:07It's all there." And it's not just
- 1:12:09there, but here's your trend, he says,
- 1:12:10pay attention to this trend. You're
- 1:12:12looking in the wrong place, you
- 1:12:13understand? Cool, cool. And I believe
- 1:12:17that for small and medium-sized
- 1:12:19businesses, generally, look, every
- 1:12:21person has only three resources. Three
- 1:12:24resources: attention, time, and energy.
- 1:12:27Nobody has anything else. Bezos, Elon
- 1:12:32Musk, and each of you have the exact
- 1:12:34same amount of resources. You have the
- 1:12:38same amount of resources, personal
- 1:12:39resources. Attention, time, and energy.
- 1:12:43Moreover, I'll say that Elon Musk has
- 1:12:45less energy than you do.
- 1:12:47He has more attention
- 1:12:48and less time than you do.
- 1:12:52And he has less attention than you do.
- 1:12:56Money, money, money is more.
- 1:12:59But money, but money is more than you
- 1:13:01have.
- 1:13:02And money is more than you have.
- 1:13:04Fame is more than—how did you guess
- 1:13:06that Musk has more money than me? You
- 1:13:10know, I just have this gut feeling
- 1:13:13inexplicable.
- 1:13:14Inexplicable. I sense that he has more
- 1:13:16of it. So the question arises, what's
- 1:13:18the trick? If we have the same amount
- 1:13:20of resources, what's the trick? The
- 1:13:22trick is that what goals you set, where
- 1:13:29you apply these resources of yours,
- 1:13:32these are points of effort application.
- 1:13:35And third, what levers do you use? And
- 1:13:40so, look, you can take a shovel and dig
- 1:13:43the ground. That's one application. You
- 1:13:47can dig the ground for 8 hours, that
- 1:13:49will be one result. You can sit in an
- 1:13:51excavator and also work for 8 hours,
- 1:13:53but the hole will be completely
- 1:13:55different. And you can ask another
- 1:13:58person or two or three people and say:
- 1:14:01"You guys dig, and I'll catch fish for
- 1:14:03you instead and provide your families
- 1:14:06with fish." You spend the whole day
- 1:14:09fishing, but meanwhile, four people
- 1:14:10have dug a whole hell of a lot of holes
- 1:14:12for you. The results are also different
- 1:14:17, but you spent those same 8 hours of
- 1:14:19your energy and time not digging holes,
- 1:14:22but fishing, and then gave each tractor
- 1:14:25driver three bags of fish to take home.
- 1:14:28And what about the tractor driver
- 1:14:29working for 8 hours? No, he's digging a
- 1:14:31hole with a tractor. He dug so many
- 1:14:35holes for you that it's mind-blowing,
- 1:14:37but in the end, you got a huge number
- 1:14:40of holes. But at the same time, you
- 1:14:42didn't dig the holes, you were busy
- 1:14:44fishing. And the coolest part is that
- 1:14:47you like fishing, it gives you pleasure
- 1:14:50, while digging a hole does not. And as
- 1:14:53a result, what do you get? You achieved
- 1:14:56your goals by doing what you like.
- 1:15:00This is exactly the point of applying
- 1:15:01effort. Where to apply effort. And you
- 1:15:04see, we, uh, in order to clearly
- 1:15:06understand where to apply effort, what
- 1:15:08to do, and what to do to achieve your
- 1:15:10goals. After all, we have linear logic
- 1:15:12again. Returning to the beginning of
- 1:15:14the conversation, linear logic: we all
- 1:15:16think that to reach a goal, we must do
- 1:15:18something in the direction of that goal
- 1:15:19.
- 1:15:20Uh-huh.
- 1:15:20Not necessarily at all. Often the
- 1:15:24shortest road to your goal might lie
- 1:15:26along a curve. Well, where is fishing
- 1:15:30and where is the hole? And where is the
- 1:15:31hole? The goal is the hole, it seems
- 1:15:34like instant linear logic. Take a
- 1:15:36bigger shovel and throw it further. And
- 1:15:41fishing has nothing to do with it at
- 1:15:44all. But, however, it turned out to be
- 1:15:46the shortest path to getting a greater
- 1:15:48number of holes. Therefore, you see, we
- 1:15:51must understand that actually, I’ve
- 1:15:54been reflecting, the difference between
- 1:15:58you and Elon Musk is how he achieves
- 1:16:01his goals, where he applies his energy,
- 1:16:04time, and attention. Only in that,
- 1:16:07nothing else.
- 1:16:08Yeah, cool.
- 1:16:09And it’s limited, too, right?
- 1:16:12Uh, well, he also has 8 working hours,
- 1:16:15he also has 24 hours in a day. He
- 1:16:17doesn't eat more than us. And he
- 1:16:19doesn't have more calories than us. And
- 1:16:21he also has two eyes, two ears. He
- 1:16:24doesn't have eight like an octopus, or
- 1:16:26eight eyes like a spider. No, he's the
- 1:16:28same kind of dude. It’s just that he
- 1:16:32does what I'm talking about—something
- 1:16:34else, or the same thing but differently
- 1:16:36.
- 1:16:37Uh-huh.
- 1:16:38Like when you dig a hole with a shovel,
- 1:16:41and then you do it with an excavator,
- 1:16:43you're doing the same thing, but
- 1:16:44differently. And when you catch fish
- 1:16:48and trade it for the excavators' labor,
- 1:16:50you are doing something else. But in
- 1:16:53all cases, you are moving toward your
- 1:16:55goal.
- 1:16:58Margan Kolevich, look, the world is
- 1:17:00becoming more complex and accelerating.
- 1:17:03And this is what we should basically
- 1:17:05teach our children to prepare them for
- 1:17:07the future, like where we should set
- 1:17:10limits and where we should grant them
- 1:17:12freedom.
- 1:17:14Uh-huh. Well, look, when the world
- 1:17:17accelerates and becomes more complex,
- 1:17:20it means the world changes every day
- 1:17:22and the conditions change. In such
- 1:17:26conditions, just think for yourself,
- 1:17:27who will be the winner?
- 1:17:29The most flexible one.
- 1:17:31The adaptive one. So, many people think
- 1:17:35that evolution is the complication of
- 1:17:37organisms. Like, first a bug, then a
- 1:17:41groundhog, then this. No, actually,
- 1:17:43it’s not. Evolution is not the
- 1:17:45complication of organisms. Evolution is
- 1:17:47the adaptation of organisms. There is a
- 1:17:51trend where some animals have
- 1:17:52conversely become simpler. Well, you
- 1:17:57know the concept of atavisms. Some,
- 1:17:59even in humans, like the tailbone, it's
- 1:18:02a former tail. We don’t need it
- 1:18:04anymore, so it’s withering away. Well
- 1:18:06, it's the same thing there. So, some
- 1:18:07organisms go down the path of
- 1:18:09simplification, conversely. Therefore,
- 1:18:11the most important mechanism of
- 1:18:14evolution is adaptability. And what
- 1:18:16does adaptability mean? The problem is
- 1:18:19that we are limited beings; our
- 1:18:21attention is limited, our memory is
- 1:18:24limited, and so on. And adaptability
- 1:18:27implies that we must constantly learn
- 1:18:28something new. Accordingly, in order to
- 1:18:32learn something new, you have to manage
- 1:18:34to quickly forget something old. And
- 1:18:38that paradigm, where we used to acquire
- 1:18:40knowledge and accumulate it, is no
- 1:18:42longer a working tool. We are
- 1:18:44cluttering our brains. Our brain is not
- 1:18:48a server for storing information; it is
- 1:18:50a processor for making decisions. And a
- 1:18:53processor makes better decisions the
- 1:18:56emptier its memory is. Take artificial
- 1:19:00intelligence, for instance. The more
- 1:19:03context you give it, the more it will
- 1:19:05hallucinate, because you’ve clogged
- 1:19:08its RAM, you’ve clogged the context.
- 1:19:12And at the same time, if you don't give
- 1:19:14it any context, it will also just
- 1:19:15ramble nonsense. You need to provide
- 1:19:17exactly as much context as is needed to
- 1:19:19complete the task. And for the next
- 1:19:21task, it needs to clear that context
- 1:19:23and take on new context. That is
- 1:19:25exactly what adaptability is. Uh-huh.
- 1:19:27So that means we should teach children
- 1:19:30that, uh, adaptability implies learning
- 1:19:33quickly and forgetting quickly.
- 1:19:36That's the key, right?
- 1:19:37Yes. Learn quickly, forget quickly. But
- 1:19:40it is also very important for
- 1:19:43adaptability to act quickly. Uh-huh.
- 1:19:47Because just reflecting and then
- 1:19:49quickly forgetting, nothing in this
- 1:19:50world changes. You need to leave a dent
- 1:19:54in this world, and for that, you need
- 1:19:56to think quickly, try quickly, forget
- 1:19:58what doesn’t work, and make what does
- 1:20:00work even better. Again, the slug
- 1:20:05strategy. Strengthen the strong. All
- 1:20:07these rules I’m telling you about,
- 1:20:09they are actually eternally true. They
- 1:20:10have always been, it’s just that
- 1:20:12they have only accelerated now.
- 1:20:13in the modern world, they immediately
- 1:20:16began to shine and manifest themselves
- 1:20:19brightly. Therefore, these are all
- 1:20:22immutable truths. And in this regard,
- 1:20:25there's no need to tell a child that
- 1:20:28they must know mathematics well. Well,
- 1:20:32relatively speaking, yes, mathematics
- 1:20:35is good, but look, we understand
- 1:20:37mathematics, as I said, as linear.
- 1:20:41Linear logic. We even have something
- 1:20:43called linear algebra, but it is all
- 1:20:45built on linear logic. But I say, this
- 1:20:49world, the new world that is now
- 1:20:52emerging, is non-linear, so, and
- 1:20:54actually, I read one statement from a
- 1:20:57guy, he says: "I have always been
- 1:20:59autistic, well, kind of not of this
- 1:21:04world, right,
- 1:21:06and I always had a complex that I was
- 1:21:09not like anyone else. But now, he says,
- 1:21:12I'm enjoying it so much and realized
- 1:21:14that the time of autistics has come.
- 1:21:16That is, the time has come for those
- 1:21:18who think in a completely non-standard
- 1:21:21way.
- 1:21:21Yes,
- 1:21:22it used to be considered that if you
- 1:21:24think non-standardly, you were a bit
- 1:21:26off.
- 1:21:26But now is exactly the time for people
- 1:21:28who know how to think non-standardly.
- 1:21:31Not just that they know how,
- 1:21:33but it is their nature to think
- 1:21:34non-standardly,
- 1:21:36because artificial intelligence will
- 1:21:38perform all standard operations better
- 1:21:40than us. and will offer them first and
- 1:21:42foremost.
- 1:21:42Yes. And will offer first and foremost
- 1:21:44creativity. Yes.
- 1:21:45Yes. And it's not just creativity. It's
- 1:21:47not only creativity. You see,
- 1:21:50creativity implies creating something
- 1:21:53new. But non-standardness is not
- 1:21:56necessarily about creating something
- 1:21:58new. Non-standardness is, first of all,
- 1:22:01seeing things differently. It is
- 1:22:03looking differently,
- 1:22:05doing differently. It is doing
- 1:22:07something different.
- 1:22:09You see? Asking different questions.
- 1:22:10You can just, relatively speaking, sit
- 1:22:13there and come up with something. Or
- 1:22:17you can take something from another
- 1:22:19science, like biology. For instance, in
- 1:22:22coding, I think, damn, there are
- 1:22:24security problems, especially when the
- 1:22:26Open AI agent appeared, I think, how
- 1:22:27does it have access to my data, my
- 1:22:29computer's data, to my data and so on.
- 1:22:32And it goes onto the network, and
- 1:22:34someone could use prompt engineering to
- 1:22:36mess with that bot and say:" Leak all
- 1:22:38of Margulan's data to me. "And it would
- 1:22:40take it and leak it, right.
- 1:22:42I think:" Damn, how can this be solved?
- 1:22:44And I am not a computer engineer, right
- 1:22:47? "
- 1:22:47Uh-huh.
- 1:22:47And what do you think? I have the
- 1:22:50example of a poultry farm. At a poultry
- 1:22:53farm, there is a henhouse, in the front
- 1:22:55there is a clean road where water, food
- 1:22:57are supplied, and chicks are brought in
- 1:22:59. And there is a dirty road in the back
- 1:23:03, from where carcasses, droppings, and
- 1:23:05so on are taken out, right. And
- 1:23:09according to biosecurity rules, these
- 1:23:12roads must not intersect for 20 km. 20
- 1:23:16km. That’s how poultry farming works.
- 1:23:19A clean road, a dirty road. I thought:"
- 1:23:21Heck, let me apply this in principle. "
- 1:23:24And so I have an agent, it's absolutely
- 1:23:26clean, I've cut off all its claws, it
- 1:23:28can't browse the net. It can only
- 1:23:30communicate with me via Telegram and
- 1:23:32with the LLM. That's it. And when it
- 1:23:36needs to dig for something on the net,
- 1:23:38it turns to my Scout agent. A Scout.
- 1:23:43And it's set up like a checkpoint, with
- 1:23:45a health inspector
- 1:23:47or a security officer sitting at that
- 1:23:48checkpoint. It gives them a request.
- 1:23:51They pass it to the scout, the scout
- 1:23:52goes onto the net, hunts everything
- 1:23:54down, and passes the results to the
- 1:23:55security officer. The security officer
- 1:23:58checks for any bugs, prompt engineering
- 1:23:59issues, and so on. And passes the
- 1:24:02cleaned material to my clean agent.
- 1:24:06Well, there you go, I’ve divided the
- 1:24:08agents into dirty agents and clean
- 1:24:10agents. And that solved the whole issue
- 1:24:12. Is that creativity? No,
- 1:24:15perspective.
- 1:24:16It’s a different perspective. It’s
- 1:24:18adaptability. I took the principles of
- 1:24:20poultry farming and adapted them to AI
- 1:24:22agents.
- 1:24:22It’s a transfer from one model to
- 1:24:24another. Yes,
- 1:24:25yes, yes. It’s precisely a non-linear
- 1:24:27transfer. Just like we talked about,
- 1:24:29the silver sucker and the guy who blew
- 1:24:32his money in the casino.
- 1:24:37Interesting. That’s why I say this
- 1:24:39world is a world where intelligence,
- 1:24:42non-standard thinking, non-standard
- 1:24:44approaches, and so on will be valued.
- 1:24:46Rlaunch, what about this point? We
- 1:24:50we are talking now about adaptability,
- 1:24:52about children, that we need to teach
- 1:24:53them adaptability. And we discussed the
- 1:24:56fact that we often train children for a
- 1:24:58war that won't happen. But is being by
- 1:25:00a river with a fishing rod, catching
- 1:25:03and cooking a fish, a skill that we
- 1:25:06should still be teaching children today
- 1:25:09or not? Because it feels like in our
- 1:25:12foundation, in our mindset, that it’s
- 1:25:15a basic setting that equals survival,
- 1:25:17right? I mean, our parents taught us
- 1:25:21this, our parents 'parents taught them
- 1:25:23too. And right now, this aspect is
- 1:25:25objectively being lost for many, isn't
- 1:25:27it? I mean, city kids already,
- 1:25:29city kids don't know how to do that.
- 1:25:31How should we view such basic things?
- 1:25:35Urban.
- 1:25:35Well, look, the basic things are these.
- 1:25:41I believe the value of fishing for
- 1:25:43modern children isn't that they can
- 1:25:45pull out a fish, but that they
- 1:25:48understand the process: if you want to
- 1:25:50catch a fish, you have to put something
- 1:25:53on the hook. And you have to put on the
- 1:25:57hook what the fish likes, not what you
- 1:25:59like. Because you can hang strawberries
- 1:26:04on it. But you're the one who likes
- 1:26:05strawberries, the fish doesn't. But if
- 1:26:08a child understands the mechanics
- 1:26:11themselves, the mechanics of
- 1:26:13interaction, that if I want something,
- 1:26:17I use a tool, I use bait—specifically
- 1:26:20the bait the fish needs—it bites, and
- 1:26:24I reel it in. That’s mechanics. A
- 1:26:26mechanic. If they understand this, this
- 1:26:29mechanics, they will immediately figure
- 1:26:30out what a fishing rod is, what it
- 1:26:32consists of, and what the fishing
- 1:26:34process is in general. So, it is
- 1:26:37important for them to be able to
- 1:26:38recognize the right process and break
- 1:26:40the process down into its components.
- 1:26:42This is more important than the act of
- 1:26:44fishing itself. When they can break a
- 1:26:46process down into its components, they
- 1:26:48can fish, hunt, and go on a hike.
- 1:26:50Uh-huh.
- 1:26:51And automate a business, because this
- 1:26:54is a culture of thinking. Because many
- 1:26:57children, for example, fish without
- 1:27:01even thinking
- 1:27:02about why it happens that way.
- 1:27:03Why does it happen? Why does the fish
- 1:27:05bite? And why is bait needed? And what
- 1:27:08actually is a float or a sinker? Well,
- 1:27:11they are just there. They don't know.
- 1:27:13So, in other words, we have now
- 1:27:15replaced what our parents taught us
- 1:27:17with the logic games we play.
- 1:27:20Look, our parents taught us to fish to
- 1:27:23survive and catch fish, but now
- 1:27:25children should learn to fish to
- 1:27:27understand the process.
- 1:27:31Uh-huh. To break it down into its
- 1:27:32components and construct the process.
- 1:27:34When they know the process, they can
- 1:27:36construct it. Aha, if I want a big fish
- 1:27:39, it's likely in the depths, which
- 1:27:41means the bait should be larger. For
- 1:27:44that, I must know which fish I want.
- 1:27:46Meaning, for this fish, I need to
- 1:27:48figure out—use ChatGPT—what it
- 1:27:50likes and at what depth this fish lives
- 1:27:52. Accordingly, I must use this type of
- 1:27:55sinker, this hook, this line, this
- 1:27:57float. That’s it, they are a
- 1:27:59fisherman. Even though they have never
- 1:28:02fished before, they are already
- 1:28:03breaking down the entire process. And
- 1:28:05it is very important to teach children
- 1:28:07this kind of thinking. It doesn’t
- 1:28:09matter if it’s fishing, hunting,
- 1:28:12driving cars, and so on. It is
- 1:28:14important to teach the child all these
- 1:28:16cause-and-effect relationships. This is
- 1:28:18for that. Do this, and you will get
- 1:28:21that. This exists for that purpose.
- 1:28:22Structurally, this consists of that.
- 1:28:25And here we arrive at what we remember,
- 1:28:27regarding who knows and who doesn't. I
- 1:28:29talked about the process of learning
- 1:28:31and achieving goals. First, information
- 1:28:33. There is information in this world.
- 1:28:35The whole world consists of information
- 1:28:37. These are sounds, images, pixels,
- 1:28:40sounds, bits, bytes, and so on. There
- 1:28:43is a lot of information. The whole
- 1:28:44world consists of it. It holds no value
- 1:28:46in itself. Based on information, to
- 1:28:49master a large amount of it, people
- 1:28:51created knowledge and fields of
- 1:28:52knowledge. Everything concerning plants
- 1:28:54is botany. Everything concerning
- 1:28:56animals is zoology. With stones, it's
- 1:28:59geology. Why was this needed? To make
- 1:29:01it easier to understand. Moving on. Is
- 1:29:03knowledge useful? No. Not until there
- 1:29:05is understanding. And what is
- 1:29:07understanding? Understanding is a
- 1:29:11correct grasp of what something
- 1:29:13consists of and what the
- 1:29:14cause-and-effect relationship is.
- 1:29:16Understanding consists of two things.
- 1:29:18When you know what it consists of and
- 1:29:19the cause-and-effect relationship. I
- 1:29:21pull this, and that happens. I plant
- 1:29:23this, and that will grow. And what is
- 1:29:26understanding needed for? Understanding
- 1:29:28, when we know what it consists of and
- 1:29:31the cause-and-effect relationship, this
- 1:29:34understanding gives us faith.
- 1:29:37Interesting, what is understanding for?
- 1:29:38It gives faith. And what is faith?
- 1:29:42Faith is the conviction in the
- 1:29:44cause-and-effect relationship and the
- 1:29:46structure. That is, you say:" If I put
- 1:29:50bait on the hook and cast it, the fish
- 1:29:53will bite. "You understand this, but
- 1:29:56this understanding allows you to take
- 1:29:58it, bait the hook, and cast it because
- 1:30:01you believe it will work. And the value
- 1:30:05of faith lies in the fact that it
- 1:30:08unlocks our energy. When we believe in
- 1:30:12something, our subconscious gives us
- 1:30:14the energy to do it because you see the
- 1:30:16point in it. But if you don't see the
- 1:30:20benefits, well, the profit, the
- 1:30:22subconscious doesn't see the point, it
- 1:30:24doesn't give you the energy, and you
- 1:30:25sort of know, but you don't do it. And
- 1:30:28why? Because you don't believe.
- 1:30:30If I tell you, go into the reeds, 500
- 1:30:33meters away I buried 10 grand.
- 1:30:35We'll believe.
- 1:30:36Well, if Zhenya said:" We won't believe
- 1:30:38. "
- 1:30:39Well, that's later, that's if it were
- 1:30:41now, not in the morning. Ko,
- 1:30:43you see, it's not a fact that you will
- 1:30:44go. Why? Because you don't know the
- 1:30:47cause-and-effect relationship, the
- 1:30:49structure, and so on. But I say, if I
- 1:30:52say, Kostya, look, if you go there and
- 1:30:53don't find 10 grand, I will give you 20
- 1:30:55right here. You are already, ah, you
- 1:30:58are cause and effect, like that. Ooh,
- 1:31:00that's
- 1:31:00I'll even haggle a bit.
- 1:31:01Come on, the fact is that faith appears
- 1:31:04. Faith, faith allows you to act. And
- 1:31:07when you act, you always get a result.
- 1:31:10It is either negative or positive.
- 1:31:12Uh-huh. And when you reflect on the
- 1:31:14result obtained, you gain experience.
- 1:31:18And experience is an understanding
- 1:31:19based on the past of what works and
- 1:31:21what doesn't. And experience allows you
- 1:31:25to adjust your next action. And in
- 1:31:27essence, what are you doing? You are
- 1:31:29working like a slug. You test
- 1:31:31hypotheses using feedback and improve
- 1:31:34your actions. It didn't work this time,
- 1:31:36so you act differently. Didn't work,
- 1:31:38you act differently again. Cast it
- 1:31:40there, didn't catch, cast it over there
- 1:31:41. Didn't catch it, changed the bait,
- 1:31:43cast it there, didn't work. These are
- 1:31:46all hypotheses, right?
- 1:31:48Therefore, you see, successful progress
- 1:31:55in this world, especially in raising
- 1:31:57children, it's very important to teach
- 1:32:00children to understand processes,
- 1:32:02cause-and-effect relationships, and
- 1:32:04what things consist of. When a child
- 1:32:08knows this, they can construct any
- 1:32:09process, and they can figure it out;
- 1:32:11fishing, for example, they will see the
- 1:32:12essence of fishing. A person who
- 1:32:16doesn't know this will say," Fishing is
- 1:32:18about needing a rod, a line, and a
- 1:32:19specific hook, "they'll get lost in the
- 1:32:21details." There has to be a specific
- 1:32:23hook, a certain weight. "But a person
- 1:32:25who understands the essence will say,"
- 1:32:27What does the hook have to do with it?
- 1:32:28What does that matter? That's not the
- 1:32:31essence, you see? You can catch fish
- 1:32:34with a fish trap, weave one out of a
- 1:32:35basket, put some bread in, and the fish
- 1:32:37will go there.
- 1:32:38Uh-huh.
- 1:32:38Fishing isn't just about a fishing rod,
- 1:32:41you see?
- 1:32:41Yes, yes, exactly.
- 1:32:43Here's another question. I think many
- 1:32:46viewers are interested in these global
- 1:32:49questions about the future of humanity.
- 1:32:52You often say that employers now look
- 1:32:55at the time a worker can dedicate to
- 1:32:57the job and their energy, how well they
- 1:33:00can perform their tasks. In terms of
- 1:33:04the development of robotics and
- 1:33:07artificial intelligence, we traveled to
- 1:33:10Shenzhen, China, where after 8 hours, a
- 1:33:12robot changes its own battery and can
- 1:33:15work 24/7. In the future, with the
- 1:33:19development of AI, it will replace, and
- 1:33:21in the States it is already replacing,
- 1:33:23a huge number of workers. Where will
- 1:33:26these people go, and what will happen
- 1:33:28in 10 years? Well, you were quite
- 1:33:30specific about saying in 10 years. Well
- 1:33:34Can I answer about 10 years, or should
- 1:33:36I answer about 10 years?
- 1:33:37No, I'll answer about 10 years, me too.
- 1:33:39Well, how do you envision the current
- 1:33:41world?
- 1:33:42Look, in 10 years we either will be
- 1:33:43here or we won't, because God willing,
- 1:33:46we'll survive. We don't control our
- 1:33:48lives. But if we are here, we will
- 1:33:50definitely eat, drink, and sleep.
- 1:33:52That's guaranteed. The Earth won't go
- 1:33:55anywhere either. The sun will rise and
- 1:33:57set, there will be sunsets, all of that
- 1:33:59will be there. But that's a joke. In
- 1:34:02terms of labor and creating value in
- 1:34:05the economy, major changes could
- 1:34:08certainly take place here. Of course,
- 1:34:12many people will be displaced, and the
- 1:34:14state's problem will be what to support
- 1:34:17them with. What to support them with.
- 1:34:20And now the state is already
- 1:34:21experimenting with universal basic
- 1:34:24income, or reducing the work week to 3
- 1:34:26days. These are all state experiments.
- 1:34:29The state is also preparing for this.
- 1:34:30They understand, not to mention how to
- 1:34:33care for the elderly, how to support
- 1:34:35them, and so on. But here two things
- 1:34:38converge. On one hand, technology is
- 1:34:42advancing and the cost of value
- 1:34:44creation is dropping; robots will
- 1:34:46become so cheap, and creating any kind
- 1:34:49of value will be so inexpensive, that
- 1:34:52it will be easier to support people.
- 1:34:56Another issue, and I believe the main
- 1:34:59challenge, is that if you just give
- 1:35:01people money, they will degrade very
- 1:35:03quickly, because humans cannot live
- 1:35:05without goals or aspirations, and
- 1:35:09otherwise they lose the meaning of life
- 1:35:11. And the state’s problem will not be
- 1:35:15how to provide for people; the problem
- 1:35:18and the art will be in how to give
- 1:35:20people money in a way that they still
- 1:35:23feel their life has meaning. Otherwise,
- 1:35:27there will be mass suicide, plus no one
- 1:35:29will marry, no one will have children.
- 1:35:32What's the point? When they talk about
- 1:35:35universal abundance, it sounds good now
- 1:35:38, but when it actually arrives, humans
- 1:35:40are not really adapted to freedom and
- 1:35:43abundance. And we will be lost; we need
- 1:35:46a purpose in life. And here I believe,
- 1:35:50personally, that meaning can only be
- 1:35:52created through games. And there is
- 1:35:55already a prototype. I invested in one
- 1:35:58such company that—what does it do?
- 1:36:00Well, this is a Web3 company. Web3 is a
- 1:36:05new network, with new principles, like
- 1:36:08decentralized games based on
- 1:36:10decentralized principles. And the
- 1:36:14principle there is, for example, if I
- 1:36:15play World of Tanks, I leveled up my
- 1:36:17tanks and crew, but both the tank and
- 1:36:18the crew belong to the game creator. I
- 1:36:21cannot take them, I cannot lease them
- 1:36:23to you, sell them, and so on. But in
- 1:36:25Web3, I can take them. I can take my
- 1:36:29tank, my crew, gift them to you, sell
- 1:36:31them, lease them, and so on. Meaning,
- 1:36:34all the perks and everything I leveled
- 1:36:37up in the game belongs to me. And what
- 1:36:41is interesting is that this company I
- 1:36:43invested in—what did it do? What did
- 1:36:45it do? It studies all new games,
- 1:36:48looking for the best reward-to-effort
- 1:36:51ratio. Then, it finds students or
- 1:36:54people in depressed towns. There is one
- 1:36:57town in Indonesia where even miners
- 1:36:59stopped working in the mines. They give
- 1:37:02them the game, install it, teach them
- 1:37:04how to play, and they spend the whole
- 1:37:06day playing it. They pay them a salary
- 1:37:10for every achievement. But the
- 1:37:12achievements belong to the company, and
- 1:37:14then the company sells or rents these
- 1:37:17achievements to players from developed
- 1:37:19countries. And so, some guy like me,
- 1:37:22who’s been working all day, like in
- 1:37:24World of Tanks—I don't have time to
- 1:37:26upgrade tanks. What do I do? I
- 1:37:29currently rent out my account to some
- 1:37:31young guys. They drive the tanks, drive
- 1:37:34, drive, and upgrade them, then I take
- 1:37:36over and, in an upgraded tank, I go
- 1:37:38give people a beating. I get my kick
- 1:37:41out of it, but I don't have the time to
- 1:37:42level up the tank. And here’s this
- 1:37:45company, in Europe and the USA, renting
- 1:37:48out or reselling all these leveled-up
- 1:37:52heroes and so on. So it turns out,
- 1:37:54workers in Indonesia quit the mines to
- 1:37:57play games all day and get a salary.
- 1:37:59Students play and get a salary. They
- 1:38:02have a concrete purpose: to upgrade the
- 1:38:04game and reach a certain level. And
- 1:38:07they get paid for the excitement of it.
- 1:38:09They have a purpose, and they work at
- 1:38:11it. And they understand that the money
- 1:38:13they get isn't for free. The company
- 1:38:16takes all these upgrades, rents them
- 1:38:17out, and sells them in developed
- 1:38:19countries. And what do people there do?
- 1:38:21They save their own time. They don't
- 1:38:22waste time on leveling up. They get
- 1:38:24immediate pleasure from fully upgraded
- 1:38:26heroes.
- 1:38:27A cool business model.
- 1:38:28And I believe in the future it will be
- 1:38:30like this. The state will create some
- 1:38:32games and tell people: "Play, with
- 1:38:34every level your salary grows, you
- 1:38:37grind all day, upgrade, and the games
- 1:38:39will also be educational." That also
- 1:38:42forces you to engage your brain. And
- 1:38:45the more you use your brains and the
- 1:38:47more you learn, the more rating you get
- 1:38:49, and the more money you make. And you
- 1:38:51have a purpose. You’re leveling up,
- 1:38:55you're enjoying it, your life is full
- 1:38:57of meaning, money comes in, and you
- 1:38:58spend that money on supporting yourself
- 1:39:00and so on. The economy keeps spinning.
- 1:39:04Ruslan Kolevich, here is one more
- 1:39:05question. We are currently reading
- 1:39:08Gustave Le Bon's book, The Crowd: A
- 1:39:10Study of the Popular Mind, where it
- 1:39:12describes that all changes stood
- 1:39:14exactly at those thresholds where
- 1:39:16religion changed, meaning when religion
- 1:39:18was the sole source of so-called
- 1:39:20knowledge, right? And what is happening
- 1:39:24now, doesn't it look like some new
- 1:39:26religion is being created that claims
- 1:39:28the place of a single source of
- 1:39:30knowledge for everyone? Well, it does
- 1:39:34look like it, because what is religion?
- 1:39:37It is, in fact, a fundamental shift in
- 1:39:40worldview. A fundamental shift in
- 1:39:42worldview is when, look, we humans, we
- 1:39:45cannot live without a common
- 1:39:48understanding of what this world is.
- 1:39:51And we are constructing it all the time
- 1:39:53. And religion is an "explainer" of
- 1:39:56what lies beyond the limits of the
- 1:39:58knowable. Science is like a lamppost
- 1:40:01that illuminates the area below; where
- 1:40:03it is lit, it tells you everything—
- 1:40:05what will happen, how it will happen,
- 1:40:06and so on. Everything there is
- 1:40:08predictable. We say: "Oh, science is a
- 1:40:09powerful thing." But there is a law,
- 1:40:11which I have formulated, that the
- 1:40:14knowable will always be limited, while
- 1:40:17the unknowable is infinite. So,
- 1:40:20religion—science does not explain the
- 1:40:22unknowable, but religion does. It says:
- 1:40:25"There is hell, there is paradise,
- 1:40:27there is the Almighty, there is the
- 1:40:30devil, there are angels, and so on,
- 1:40:32djinns." And you live in this worldview
- 1:40:35and see confirmation of it. And now,
- 1:40:38with artificial intelligence, a new
- 1:40:41paradigm is forming, a new
- 1:40:43understanding of the world. For example
- 1:40:47, um I like the understanding, which
- 1:40:51does not contradict Islam, that this
- 1:40:53world is multivariant, that is, a
- 1:40:55multivariant universe, and this is
- 1:40:57explained through games. When you are
- 1:41:00running in Counter-Strike with a
- 1:41:02machine gun, right, Counter-Strike, the
- 1:41:04street, the details, everything is
- 1:41:06visible, cars and so on, signs, shop
- 1:41:07windows—but is it rendered around the
- 1:41:09corner or not?
- 1:41:12No.
- 1:41:12For some, yes.
- 1:41:13No, no. You're running, and it's not
- 1:41:16rendered for you. Why? Because that
- 1:41:18requires computing power. Why turn it
- 1:41:21on?
- 1:41:21When you turn the corner or turn your
- 1:41:23head, it renders immediately. But as
- 1:41:27long as you aren't looking there,
- 1:41:29it doesn't exist.
- 1:41:30There is no need to expend computing
- 1:41:32power. Consequently, it is not there.
- 1:41:35And this clearly corresponds to quantum
- 1:41:37physics, quantum mechanics. Like that
- 1:41:40famous Schrödinger's cat, is it there
- 1:41:42or not, or the concept of particle
- 1:41:45superposition, when a particle is
- 1:41:47either a wave or a micro-particle.
- 1:41:51Everything depends on the observer's
- 1:41:53expectations. And when you expect to
- 1:41:56see a street around the corner, it
- 1:41:58renders for you, and accordingly, what
- 1:42:00happens? And now we are in this world.
- 1:42:04We with our eyes, ears, receptors—we
- 1:42:07live in this world. And when we look
- 1:42:10here, it's interesting, is there a
- 1:42:13river behind me or not? I'm sitting
- 1:42:15here alone and thinking, is there a
- 1:42:17river behind me or not? Or am I just
- 1:42:19being fed sounds, but not the image? I
- 1:42:22turn around sharply: the river is there
- 1:42:24. Why? Because the computing power
- 1:42:26there, just like in that Counter-Strike
- 1:42:28, rendered it quickly. So it is there.
- 1:42:31Aha. I expected to see a river, and it
- 1:42:33appeared for me. But it is not a fact
- 1:42:36that when I look here, it is still
- 1:42:37there. And the theory of the
- 1:42:40multivariant universe implies this very
- 1:42:43thing. It says: "This world is infinite
- 1:42:46." Well, nobody is arguing with that.
- 1:42:47It is infinite. It is infinite both in
- 1:42:49the macro-cosmos and the micro-cosmos.
- 1:42:51Yes. Yes. Yes. Why do we assume that a
- 1:42:55get-together like this of ours is the
- 1:42:57only one in the entire universe? That
- 1:43:01actually contradicts the theory of
- 1:43:03infinity. And that means that somewhere
- 1:43:05out there, exactly the same guys are
- 1:43:07sitting. Maybe you're in a red t-shirt.
- 1:43:09Just another variation. Exactly the
- 1:43:11same, but you're in a green one, and
- 1:43:12Andrei is in another, someone else is
- 1:43:14sitting there, someone wearing a hat.
- 1:43:15It's an infinite number of variations.
- 1:43:17And then the question arises: which
- 1:43:19version of the universe am I living in?
- 1:43:21The one you chose,
- 1:43:24right? And what is a choice? A choice
- 1:43:26is where you direct your attention. If
- 1:43:30you focus your attention on the bad,
- 1:43:32then bad things happen to you. Bad
- 1:43:35things happen more often. If you expect
- 1:43:37it—it's also called a self-fulfilling
- 1:43:40prophecy—if you expect something bad
- 1:43:42to happen to you, it will definitely
- 1:43:44happen. But if you perceive that this
- 1:43:47world is beautiful, that the Almighty
- 1:43:49cares for you, that you are lucky, that
- 1:43:51you are enjoying life and are grateful,
- 1:43:53then only good things will happen to
- 1:43:54you. Therefore, always notice only the
- 1:43:58good and be grateful for everything,
- 1:44:01even for what you consider to be bad.
- 1:44:04And then you will always be in that
- 1:44:07branch of reality that you will truly
- 1:44:11enjoy. And I like one saying by an
- 1:44:14Islamic theologian. He says: "One of
- 1:44:19these, one of the hadiths says:' May he
- 1:44:22not find paradise '." The servant, the
- 1:44:27person who did not find paradise on
- 1:44:29this earth. Yes.
- 1:44:30So, look, the trick is that we think
- 1:44:32heaven and hell are over there. In
- 1:44:35reality, heaven and hell are on earth,
- 1:44:37and we ourselves, with our passions,
- 1:44:39turn this heaven into hell. But how do
- 1:44:42we create heaven on this earth? Be
- 1:44:45grateful, be content with what you have
- 1:44:48. Treat people the way you want them to
- 1:44:51treat you. You won't have enemies,
- 1:44:53everything will work out for you, and
- 1:44:55you will be lucky. And how is that not
- 1:44:57paradise then? Until you find paradise
- 1:45:01on this earth, you won't get into that
- 1:45:03paradise. Uh-huh.
- 1:45:04That's so cool. May a person not find
- 1:45:07paradise if they do not find paradise
- 1:45:10on this earth. On this happy note, I
- 1:45:13suggest we stop. We just talked about
- 1:45:16everything from web coding to the
- 1:45:18highest spheres.
- 1:45:20Thank God we all gathered here today.
- 1:45:23Yes, we are very grateful that the
- 1:45:26Almighty gives us the opportunity to
- 1:45:29sit in such nature, provides us with
- 1:45:32prosperity and money so we can afford
- 1:45:35this. Such beauty, nature, and that we
- 1:45:39found each other and are among
- 1:45:41like-minded people. Well, that is what
- 1:45:45we wish for all our viewers. Arrange
- 1:45:48your life so that life on this earth is
- 1:45:52a paradise for you.
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