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Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg

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Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms, the company he started as Facebook in 2004.

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3 of Mark Zuckerberg's claims fit 2 mental models. Most often: Play long games, Exponential growth.

Models they name

Their own words name the idea.

Exponential growth

Growth that doubles looks like nothing for a long time and then like everything; intuition is linear and gets it wrong.

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An exponential feels like it cannot possibly keep going, which is exactly why people keep expecting AI progress to stop.

  1. Mark Zuckerberg Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms when you have an exponentially growing curve, I think the way that an exponential curve feels is it's growing so quickly that the the kind of emotional feeling is it can't possibly keep going, right? “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerbergyoutube.com · 10 Jun 2026 · 53:53 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    when you have an exponentially growing curve, I think the way that an exponential curve feels is it's growing so quickly that the the kind of emotional feeling is it can't possibly keep going, right?

Models we see in what they say

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Play long games

A longer horizon makes some problems solvable and some short-term wins look like what they are.

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Toxic behaviour online is a consequence of anonymity removing the repeat game that makes people behave well in person.

  1. Mark Zuckerberg Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms It's because you have one identity. And if you stiff them, then life is a repeat game and that's not going to work out well for you. But in a digital world where you can be anonymous and show up in different ways, I think the incentive to act like a good citizen can be a lot less, and that causes a lot of issues and toxic behavior. Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398youtube.com · 28 Sept 2023 · 0:48:48 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    It's because you have one identity. And if you stiff them, then life is a repeat game and that's not going to work out well for you. But in a digital world where you can be anonymous and show up in different ways, I think the incentive to act like a good citizen can be a lot less, and that causes a lot of issues and toxic behavior.

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    ↗Mark Zuckerberg: First Interview in the Metaverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #398youtube.com

    28 Sept 2023 · video · 1h 04m · spoken · official transcript

Tools this complicated need a ten-to-fifteen-year horizon, which is why they belong in a philanthropy rather than a startup.

  1. Mark Zuckerberg Co-founder and chief executive of Meta Platforms I think part of the theory is like if you're building tools that are this complicated, you kind of want to have a 10 to 15 year time horizon on on building out these efforts. “Curing All Disease by next century is too conservative" - Mark Zuckerbergyoutube.com · 10 Jun 2026 · 19:09 into the videoAll korrents from this video
    I think part of the theory is like if you're building tools that are this complicated, you kind of want to have a 10 to 15 year time horizon on on building out these efforts.