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How to Fight AI Doomers with Gill Verdon

2025/5/28
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Gill Verdon: 我在魁北克长大，那里充斥着语言法律，政府过度干预和官僚主义让我感到压抑，这最终导致了我对自由意志的追求。我渴望逃离这种束缚，追求无限的上升空间。在加拿大，人们一旦变得士气低落，就会出现一种“高罂粟花综合症”，抑制了人们追求雄心壮志的自由。那些更有雄心壮志、渴望最大自由和能够获取他们为世界创造的价值的人，往往会搬到美国。我从小就不信任权威，必须从第一性原理重新思考一切，重建我对宇宙如何运作的理解。这种经历塑造了我对自由和个人能动性的深刻理解，并促使我积极倡导技术进步，以最大限度地发挥人类的潜力。

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Gill Verdon discusses how growing up in Montreal, Quebec, with its high density of language laws and government overreach, influenced his views on regulation and bureaucracy. He felt a yearning for the United States' greater freedom and the ability to capture the upside of one's work, contrasting it with Canada's 'tall poppy syndrome'.
  • Montreal's high density of language laws
  • Government overreach in Canada
  • Tall poppy syndrome
  • Yearning for greater freedom in the United States

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Join Atlas Society CEO Jennifer Grossman for the 255th episode of Objectively Speaking (formerly The Atlas Society Asks), where she interviews Extropic founder Guillaume Verdon.

Guillaume Verdon, or Gill Verdon, is the founder of Extropic, a startup AI hardware company to meet the demanding power and computation requirements of generative AI. A physicist, applied mathematician, and researcher in quantum machine learning, Gill is also known under his online persona, @BasedBeffJezos, and for his creation of effective accelerationism (e/acc), which advocates for rapid technological progress as an ethically preferred path for human progress, emphasizing optimism and proactive efforts to shape a better future.