I Tried to Warn Them, but We've Lost Control G. Hinton [video]

My 2c—

Diary of a CEO dude is impressively ignorant and sycophantic interviewer who comes across as nothing more than a pampered and buffed robot.

(Lex Fridman is another, and lord have mercy Joe Rogan. I cry for a new generation that make Charlie Rose seem erudite.)

But G. Hinton stands out as commentator on policy for having no idea what he's talking about and just nattering.

OTOH Hinton speaking within be his narrow lane of the history of modern transformers is interesting and intelligent.

But wherever Hinton's speaking veers out into cybernetics, philosophy, or ethics, I cringe because all he can do is make stuff up without discernible structure to his thought. He waves his hands about risk based on appeals to his own authority, but he seems to not know what's going on and shows no signs of involvement with any larger social movement of reckoning-- other than being famous.

To listen to him in his own terms, the creation of transformers was largely an accident, and everything that he expects to happen will be equally accidental. So if it turns into a boon, he can take credit in the same way Beatles or Stones took credit for re-popularized folk music into the electronic age without actually knowing anything about it socially, and if his work turns into a disaster it's his incompetence and playing with fire that is to be blamed. Of course he identifies with being a Beatle, but he also reveals that he's nagged by the self doubt of a sorcerers apprentice.

He's seems wise enough to know better, but the fame and confusion seems to have got the best of him.