The Hidden Advantage of Hyperfixating on Everything

Join my Community: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/about I've lost more nights to Civ six than I'll admit, and it turns out the game is the best picture I've found of what it's like to have too many interests. So this one is for everyone who's been told to pick one thing. We go through the psychologists who built AI, why smart people with a lot of interests procrastinate, the ruler we measure people with, whether PhDs are still worth it, and what actually changes now that AI has lit up the middle of every field. My bet is the specialists and the explorers both win, and the people who run away with it do both. CHAPTERS 0:00 One more turn 1:10 Who I am 1:42 Psychology built AI 3:26 The map and the fog of war 4:42 Eurekas 5:19 Why smart people procrastinate 6:53 The ruler: IQ and "best" 8:06 What AI changes 9:05 Are PhDs still worth it? 10:15 Geoffrey Hinton: both 11:13 Clief Notes 11:48 Three moves 13:05 More map MENTIONED IN THIS VIDEO Frank Rosenblatt's perceptron, Psychological Review, 1958: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/13602... Rosenblatt at Cornell: https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019... Herbert Simon, Nobel 1978: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/eco... Herbert Simon at Carnegie Mellon: https://www.cmu.edu/50/founder-storie... Ada Lovelace's 1843 Notes: https://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Lovela... Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine (Bodleian): https://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/adalo... Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Prize in Physics 2024: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/phy... Hinton on "another six months" (Globe and Mail, 2017): https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/... Hinton's Edinburgh interview (2024): https://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/aics_hist... John Perry, structured procrastination and the 2011 Ig Nobel: https://www.chronicle.com/article/15-... Matt Might, The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. (the circle, redrawn here in our own style): https://matt.might.net/articles/phd-s... What a PhD requires, an original contribution (QAA): https://www.qaa.ac.uk/docs/qaa/guidan... The first intelligence quotient, William Stern, 1912: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles... Civilization VI Eurekas (Civilopedia): https://www.civilopedia.net/gathering... Civilization is Firaxis's game. The map, the tokens and everything else on screen are our own drawings. The characters are nods to the people in the story, not portraits of them. The reviews are real, word for word, from the Clief Notes page. The narration is my own cloned voice. Either way, happy learning everyone.