At the end of the lecture, Mr. Ochiai described today’s “industrial society” as an “agrarian society” and “white-collar” as an “agrarian people,” with a strong message of “leave the world, hunt bears. The message was powerful: “Let’s leave the world behind and hunt bears. Humans, “Leave the world, hunt bears.” Yoichi Ochiai talks about how to live in the age of super AI (2018)
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Doing a given task toward a future-earned wage is stressful.
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The way to release stress is “festival.”
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The true stress reliever is “hunting bears.”
- = Earn money doing what you love and enjoy.
- Lifestyle driven by sudden goals and objectives
- Find an assignment with zero marginal cost and start a second job or something you love to do.
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Think of AI as a weapon to “hunt bears”.
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Form matagi-like organizations with teams of several people to solve problems
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How do we find problems in society and how do we solve them?
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How do we build an organization for this purpose?
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