Ben Horowitz
① 他说过的话
41 条
所以他们最不想听到的就是一个与他们信念体系相悖的原创想法。
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And so the last thing they want to hear is an original idea that contradicts their belief system.
—— Ben Horowitz · [00:28]
但正是这些事情,这些唯一的事情,你相信的事情,你周围每个人都不相信的事情,当你是对的时候,那些是在世界上创造真正价值的事情。
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But those are the things, those are the only things, things that you believe that everybody around you doesn’t believe, when you’re right, that create real value in the world.
—— Ben Horowitz · [00:38]
但就在那一刻,在我沮丧的顶点,我学到了我在哥伦比亚学到的最有价值的一课,那就是不要听你朋友的。
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But it was at that point, at my height of frustration, that I learned the most valuable lesson that I learned at Columbia, which is don’t listen to your friends.
—— Ben Horowitz · [05:13]
而当你带着一个主意来找我时,我最看重的一点是,你是否独立思考了,这是你知道的别人都不知道的事情,还是大家都知道的事情?
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And the biggest thing that I’ll look for when you come to me with an idea is, have you thought for yourself, is it something that you know that nobody else knows, or is it something that everybody knows?
—— Ben Horowitz · [06:50]
这是一个有趣的秘密,因为它可能是世界上每个人在某个时刻都知道的事情,但它们都忘记了。
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And it was an interesting secret because it was something that probably everybody in the world knew at one point, but they had all forgotten.
—— Ben Horowitz · [08:59]
然后最后也是最重要的是,追随你的热情是一种非常以我为中心的世界观。
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And then finally and most importantly, following your passion is a very me-centered view of the world.
—— Ben Horowitz · [11:47]
当你度过一生时,你会发现你从世界上拿走的东西,无论是金钱、汽车、物品、荣誉,都不如你给予世界的重要。
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And when you go through life, what you’ll find is what you take out of the world over time, be it whatever money, cars, stuff, accolades, is much less important than what you put into the world.
—— Ben Horowitz · [11:54]
每个拥有智能手机的人,这很快将是世界上的每个人,口袋里都有国会图书馆。
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And everybody who has a smartphone, which is pretty soon gonna be everybody in the world, has the Library of Congress in their pocket.
—— Ben Horowitz · [16:59]
所以这意味着一个现在在孟加拉国长大的女孩拥有一个比 20 年前哥伦比亚大学或哈佛大学的学生拥有的更好的图书馆。
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So that means a girl growing up in Bangladesh now has a better library than a student at Columbia or Harvard had 20 years ago.
—— Ben Horowitz · [17:09]
当海盗变成了海军。
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When the pirate becomes the Navy.
—— Ben Horowitz · [17:47]
那你为什么不去试着解决这个问题,反而在那里大放厥词?因为你对外部认可的在意超过了对实际事情本身的在意。
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Well, why don’t you try and solve that as opposed to go running your mouth because you care about the external validation more than the actual thing.
—— Ben Horowitz · [58:56]
人人都热爱进步。他们受不了的是变化。
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Everybody loves progress. It’s change they can’t stand.
—— Ben Horowitz · [85:25]
如果你回顾这个行业的历史,所有东西的开源版本都要安全得多。
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If you look at the history of the industry, the open source version of everything has been much safer.
—— Ben Horowitz · [03:38]
对世界来说最安全的事情是,没有一个统治一切的 AI。
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The safest thing for the world is that there’s not one AI to rule them all.
—— Ben Horowitz · [05:24]
我们不能被当作人质,最坏的情况是 AI 领域最终出现垄断。
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we can’t be held hostage by, like, the worst scenario is there ends up being a monopoly in AI.
—— Ben Horowitz · [09:29]
这看起来比人们试图在开源叙事中戳破的那些小漏洞要大得多的国家安全风险。
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that seems like a much bigger national security risk than the kinds of little holes people are trying to poke in the open source story.
—— Ben Horowitz · [10:01]
Anthropic 刚刚花了 15 亿美元来偷走所有人的书,顺便说一下,包括我的。
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Anthropic just paid $1.5 billion for stealing everybody’s books, including mine, by the way.
—— Ben Horowitz · [11:13]
就像第一名从来不开放。然后,你知道的,第二名走向开放,这在某种程度上是软件行业的历史。
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Like the number one is never opened. And then, you know, number two goes open is kind of the history of the software industry.
—— Ben Horowitz · [13:06]
在 anthropic 之上构建已经相当危险了,因为每次一个应用类别开始做得很好时,他们就会进入那个类别。
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it’s been already fairly dangerous to build on anthropic because every time an application category starts to do well, they move into that category.
—— Ben Horowitz · [14:35]
一个后训练得非常好的、算力弱一点的、更小的模型,在商业任务上的表现通常比像一个大型专有模型这样的大型模型更好,而且也便宜得多。
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A really well post-trained, kind of less powerful, smaller model works often better for a business task than like a large, you know, kind of a large proprietary model and is much cheaper as well.
—— Ben Horowitz · [21:08]
他们的那种 token 使用量每年增长十倍。
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their kind of token usage is growing like tenfold annually.
—— Ben Horowitz · [24:19]
我认为这对艺术来说将是一次小小的文艺复兴,因为每次我们拥有一项新技术,我们就会获得新种类的艺术。
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I think it’s going to be a little bit of a renaissance for art in that like every time we have a new technology, we get new kinds of art.
—— Ben Horowitz · [28:48]
这应该是人类历史上做年轻人最棒的时代。
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This should be the greatest time in the history of humanity to be young.
—— Ben Horowitz · [00:00]
但我们面临的挑战是,我们为训练你们所建立的一切,都是为一个即将不复存在的世界而建立的。
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But the challenge that we have is everything that we’ve built to train you was built for a world that is soon to no longer exist.
—— Ben Horowitz · [00:09]
但我们现在正迎来 AI 革命,在我们看来,它在工作、工作的方式、可获得的工作种类等方面带来的变革,将与工业革命对之前农业社会的变革一样。
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But we’re hitting the AI revolution now, which is going to be in our estimation as transformational in terms of jobs, the way jobs are done, the kinds of jobs that are available and so forth as the industrial revolution was to the agricultural kind of society that came before it.
—— Ben Horowitz · [07:45]
而认为为工业革命所做的训练能完美映射到 AI 革命,这种想法很可能并不成立。
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And the idea that the training for the industrial revolution is going to map into the AI revolution is probably not perfectly.
—— Ben Horowitz · [08:04]
所以你将在非常年轻的年纪进入,比拥有三四十年经验的人更有能力。
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So you’re going to go in at a very young age being more capable than people with 30, 40 years of experience.
—— Ben Horowitz · [12:34]
拜托,哈佛,复制我们。
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Please, Harvard, copy us.
—— Ben Horowitz · [29:23]
或者你可以把问题设计得足够难,以至于没有 AI 就无法解决。
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Or you can make the problem so hard that you can’t solve them without AI.
—— Ben Horowitz · [32:21]
如果你想成为机器上的一个齿轮,那这里不会是最适合你的地方。
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If you want to be a cog in a machine, then this is not going to be the best place for you.
—— Ben Horowitz · [33:14]
你可以读遍所有关于如何打橄榄球的书,但如果你进入一场 NFL 比赛并且你在打四分卫,书里没有任何东西能教会你如何应对一个 300 磅的怪物朝你冲过来,而你还正在试图搞清楚该把球传给谁。
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You know, you can read every book ever written on how to play football, but like if you get into an NFL game and you’re playing quarterback, like nothing in a book is going to teach you to deal with like somebody, some 300 pound monster rushing at you while you’re trying to like figure out who to throw the ball to.
—— Ben Horowitz · [35:47]
他们的优势是世界级的吗?或者他们在某件事上是全世界最顶尖的?然后你就可以无视其他一切。
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Are their strengths world class? Or are they the best in the world at something? And then you overlook everything else.
—— Ben Horowitz · [00:17]
每个伟大的创业者身上都有某种糟糕透顶的缺陷,但这没关系。
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Every great entrepreneur has got something like horribly wrong with them, but that’s okay.
—— Ben Horowitz · [00:34]
我认识的任何人都有低谷,不只是低谷,还有那种存在层面的危机,我们称之为 Wiffio 时刻——我们完了,结束了。
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I don’t know anybody who doesn’t have, like, not just downs, but existential, what we call the Wiffio moment, we’re fucked, it’s over.
—— Ben Horowitz · [12:12]
生活中你是一个人,在极端压力下你是另一个人。
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You’re one person in life, and you’re another person under extreme pressure.
—— Ben Horowitz · [13:06]
Andreessen Horowitz 背后的想法其实就是,哇,如果我们打造一个更好的产品——不是为 LP,而是为创业者——会怎样?
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You know, the idea behind Andreessen Horowitz was really, like, wow, what if we made a better product not for LPs but for entrepreneurs?
—— Ben Horowitz · [17:23]
但那不是真正重要的。重要的是,他们的优势是不是世界级的?
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But that’s not what matters. What matters is are their strengths world-class?
—— Ben Horowitz · [21:41]
每一个伟大的创业者身上都有一些糟糕透顶的问题,但这没关系。
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Every great entrepreneur has got something like horribly wrong with them, but that’s okay.
—— Ben Horowitz · [22:39]
这不是黑人人才。这是人才。你只是必须能够看到这些人才。
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It’s not black talent. It’s talent. You just have to be able to see the talent.
—— Ben Horowitz · [31:35]
我觉得它显然比互联网更大。
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I think it’s clearly bigger than the internet.
—— Ben Horowitz · [36:07]
想象一下,整个计算机产业被发明出来,但它不是花了 80 年发展起来,而是花了两年。
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Imagine the entire computer industry got invented, but instead of it developing over 80 years, it developed over two years.
—— Ben Horowitz · [36:25]
② 出现在这些集
7 集
- 《Ben Horowitz:别追随激情,追随贡献》 — 作为主持
- 《Travis Kalanick 王者归来:把厨房变成「物理世界的计算机」》 — 作为联合主持
- 《Ben Horowitz 谈开源 AI 保卫战:没有垄断,才有安全》 — 作为联合主持
- 《OpenAI 总裁 Greg Brockman:我们已进入 AGI 时代,而真正的瓶颈不是模型》 — 作为联合主持
- 《Ben Horowitz 创办 AI 时代新学院:18 岁可能是历史上最好的年纪》 — 作为主持
- 《AI 这么聪明,自动化去哪儿了?Jev 把智能装进软件本身》 — 作为主持
- 《好老板不看短板:Ben Horowitz 聊选人、AI 与嘻哈教会他的事》 — 作为联合主持
③ 他谈到的
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