I previously saw an interesting discussion with NVIDEA Jensen Haung where in the context of AI he was asked: who is the smartest person you ever met?
Jensen Haung paused for quite a few moments thinking about the question before he answered.
Haung then redefined the word “smart.”
‘Smart’ is a word we have historically used in reference to ‘intelligence’. If a person was intelligent, we say that person is smart. However, in this era of AI at your fingertips, we must break this connection.
Intelligence, the assembly of knowledge about a particular matter of discussion, is no longer limited to educational or real-life training or study by people who focus intensely on subject material.
All of the knowing about a system, any system, process, history or discussion topic is now available almost instantly to anyone in this era of artificial intelligence.
The NVIDEA CEO then continued, therefore, once we break our historic reference connecting ‘intelligence’ and the generalized term ‘smart’, we can properly address the question you present.
Who is the smart man? Or, in the context of the originating question, “who is the smartest person?”
With this baseline established, Jensen Haung then outlined the traits of the smartest person. The smartest person is not the person with the greatest knowledge; the smart individual is the person who can tune into the frequency of the universal moment, look at the human reality of what is factually taking place that has not yet become an input into the AI capture record, and then predict the material outcome – the destination of knowledge that has not yet arrived.
Essentially, Haung explains the smart person is alone, tuning themselves into the vibration that is the consequence of human activity, financial interests, geopolitical movement, social transformation, economic shifts and cultural modifications. Then, positioning their interests at the place in the future where they predict all the activity will arrive.
The accuracy of prediction, or predictive positioning, then determines the scale of smart. The more accurate a person is under this perspective, the smarter they are.
I agree with this perspective.
All of human knowledge is now being assembled into AI databases for exploration by anyone with a keen interest or stake in the subject matter. Knowledge is no longer the valuation of ‘smart.’ The ability to predict the next step, phase or moment is the smart attribute.
With this context, we can now look back over the past few decades, not looking for the most intelligent voice, but rather looking at the accuracy of current position, contrast with the outline from the voices who make the predictions.
This interview about the ramifications of cultural change in Europe was given in 2010, sixteen years ago, centered on a book written by Mark Steyn and the context within the questioning is looking forward over a period of about 20 years.
Remember, this is 2010, written before the “arab spring, long before Brexit, well before President Donald Trump and the MAGA agenda as policy and before the U.K churned through seven prime ministers’ in a decade.
Remarkably, Steyn discusses/predicts what would happen if Islam tried to reform; if the U.S. pulled NATO resources out of Germany; if the U.K doesn’t radically alter direction and much more.
Watch the discussion or put the interview on play while listening to it in the background as you go about your tasks. Remind yourself at moments throughout the roughly 30 minutes, that the interview took place fifteen years ago.
Mark Steyn, a writer, political commentator, and friend of the Treehouse outlines his 2010 prediction about the destination of the Western world during a discussion with Peter Robinson.
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CTH has no financial association with any of this; I just find it super interesting, because my research folder is growing increasingly large with material behind a hemispheric shift. {TWEET}
I would also put Victor Davis Hanson up there on the stage with the current and happening events now taking place…
And Thomas Sowell
Yes, I agree, Cherp! And he was a Semper Fidelis Marine in Korea!
Especially Thomas Sowell. Great man, great mind.
Sowell is a genius and one of God’s gifts to us.
Truly a national treasure.
Referenced Thomas Sowell’s Preferential Policies while arguing with a radical black woman professor at L’Istituto Tecnologia di Massachusetts, and she recoiled as if physically struck–a lasting memory.
I would also include the late Walter Edward Williams….
I agree.
The thing is, our man in the arena is doing all three here and now.
I agree with much of what he says, but on certain topics he’s as clueless as most because, as one example, he apparently doesn’t watch Mike Benz’s very convincing, well supported content.
I like people who make things, and then make those things even better. Elon Musk has to be close to the top of the “smart” tree.
Use to be called “being ahead of the curve”. Much like the Tree House has been.
Having knowledge is one thing but applying that knowledge is key.
Yup. Always has been.
Using this criteria Pat Buchanan is part if the discussion.
I would add President Donald Trump to the list.
I saved a WSJ opinion piece written by Walter Russell Meed, published on Tuesday, June 4, 2019. The article is titled “Trump’s Case against Europe.” It cites the 5 observation Trump holds about Europe that are true today.
Pat was decades ahead of everyone else. He saw the future clearly when no one else did.
To paraphrase my favorite passage from ‘America Alone’:
“In 20 years the only thing French about France will be the street names, if the Imams let them remain.”
Been following Mark for years along with CTH. All the news I need or want except for local!
Persistent Immersive Cognitive Symbiosis. Learn what that is, or forever be at a competitive disadvantage.
The idea of Symbiosis (i.e. relationship) of human with AI pretty much makes me wanna throw up. It’s just so wrong.
Like 7 of 9, pretty, but hard to really have a relationship with.
I know of what you write.
I’m not sure if that is good or bad LOL
What “competitive disadvantage”?
Is everyone competing with each other?
Is the happy simple man at a disadvantage?
Is the competitive man no longer happy?
The only leader with an almost instinctive feel for where changes may steer history is President Donald Trump.
Love it when Mark Steyn would guest host on Rush’s show. Wish he’d be on more often. https://www.steynonline.com/
Might have been the only person who came close to Rushbo.
I always enjoyed listening to Mark when he would fill in for Rush. I hoped he would take over the show after Rush’s passing.
I wonder if it was offered to him. Surely nobody would choose the dopes in there now over Mark.
great video of the direction the world is going in. Scary correct prediction.
Thank GOD that Trump came along when he did.
Thank GOD that Sundance came along when he did.
Scary that Biden was president up until 2 years ago, and Kamala was going to be president, if the Leftist’s could have locked up TRUMP when they wanted to before the 2024 election.
I would also add DISCERNMENT as critical for being smart; able to detect falsehoods and deception inside the knowledge pools available to you. That necessarily requires SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT as the wisdom comes from God.
Yes, indeed. We’ve been given several years breathing room, and for those of us who had the prescience to migrate out of blue states to red, especially when mortgage rates were still in the 2.00-3.00’s, we’ve really been blessed.
And I need to add: Those of us who had the discernment (prompting by the Holy Spirit and by absorbing alternatives to trad-media) and understood the vaxx was a demonic formula, we have sooo much to be grateful for.
But those who have the “gift” of discernment are often labeled as cynical or negative, because they tend to see the trajectory of the situation far earlier than most people.
Thus, their warnings fall on deliberately deaf ears and their offers to help, before the problem becomes too big to be easily corrected, are ignored or even belittled.
Until later, of course, when people ask how in the world they knew…or a few people even acknowledge and apologize for not listening when the early warnings were sounded.
“There is nothing new under the sun…” Ecclesiastes 1:9
“Past is prologue…” Shakespeare “The Tempest”
In other words, for instance:
Whom tuned into the untold plandemic information 2020-2024, in real time
and
then discerned a wise(r) choice
and found ways to overcome the various hurdles or 6 ft spaced blue dots on a floor etc,
and quietly
helped others during the discernment process
to also make wise choices – for ones health?
Was that an opportunity to achieve an untold, unnoticed, undefined different level of ‘smart’ or human real ‘intelligence’
or
caaes of just knowing in advance,
for decades,
to not take any wooden nickels – as wise Grandpa advised decades ago.
and
as Paul wrote to the Thessalonians 5:21
‘ prove all things,
hold fast to that which is good’
[ the Lord is smart, wise, often beyond many human understandings.
There are writings that try to use insufficient human words to explain…
Imho ]
I do not know ; )
p.s.
there is no plaque, medal, honor, certificate, media hype for ‘smart’etc.
( if there was, then the recipient could become a target of the envious or nefarious. That has already happened many times to people. )
So avoiding being labeled ‘smart’
is also ‘smart’.
There is also however ongoing
humility, sadness for so, so many other people in this world – that had the opportunity to gather and discern the same plandemic information and made
or had
other choices placed upon them
with various results over time…
We can do better…to help to make this a better place – for others – than how we find it.
That endeavor is a 24/7/365 part of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness…and full faith life journies…
Imho
Love thy neighbors…
As a member of the Mark Steyn club, I have been sad to hear how ill he has been. Mark is in need of prayers as he continues to recover from multiple heart attacks and the stress of being fired by GB news and the frivolous lawsuit by Michael Mann. Fortunately, he has a great group of friends filling in for him at Steynonline, but we miss his voice.
Many people have accurately predicted the same. Steyn doesn’t stand out for that alone. He is truly great because he has depth and always finds an extra level to the issues, making subtle connections in so many ways.
Also his integrity. The legal cases he has courageously fought have nearly killed him. He is a brave man, as much as anyone carrying a weapon. A real hero for Western Civ.
Victor Davis Hanson and Thomas Sowell for sure are deserving. I would add Sundance to this group as well. I think Sundance should write a book about the past, present and looking forward.
If I were one of Cuba’s top leaders today I would be sleeping in a different house in the Cuban slums every night. Trump is gonna free Cuba soon.
I have been an admirer of Steyn for many years. Very prescient.
Intelligent and wise people will use AI; not be used by it (and the agenda of its creators).
“Mark Steyn, a writer, political commentator, and friend of the Treehouse”
I absolutely LOVED when Mr. Steyn hosted the Rush Limbaugh show.
I love Mark and the things that have been done to him, which literally nearly killed him, in the name of racism are absolutely criminal. Which is putting it mildly.
For those interested there are many of Steyn’s books available at: ABEBOOKS.com.
All contains and editions.
“All of human knowledge is now being assembled into AI databases for exploration by anyone with a keen interest or stake in the subject matter.”
Allow me to muddy the waters, if I may…while referencing ‘smart’, ‘intelligent/intelligence’…so can we safely say that one’s smarts or intelligence, is based on knowledge, which is information?
As Sundance often says…there is not ‘disinformation’ or ‘mal-information’…just ‘information’.
There is nothing The West can’t survive except for a nuclear war or continuing massive Third World immigration. Either will obliterate us. Massive Third World immigration is obliterating us as we speak.
Sidebar: I respectfully disagree with the statement that “All of human knowledge is now being assembled into AI databases” (my emphasis) simply because the stuff AI is collecting is not necessarily knowledge. A lot of so-called “knowledge” to be currently found is just pure junk, created by radically bent leftists who distort knowledge, fact, truth, into something entirely unrecognizable; just plain wrong.
And this is just one of multiple reasons why AI is at best 80% “smart” (by current estimates, including gargoyle’s own newly-admitted analysis) and 20% outrageously stupid.
Knowing Precludes mental activity, therefore, it is not about what one knows, it is Knowing Itself that Knows.
Yup! We have many Wise people on this website. When I joined the “GOD TEAM”, that was one of the first things I experienced, INSTANT KNOWING …
I guess you were taught that too.
Actually it was one of the Saddest days of my WHOLE LIFE. I lost everything very shortly after JOINING the GOD TEAM. Years later I realized those people around me, did NOT join the GOD TEAM, so GOD TEAM removed all the distractions so I could begin my “training”. Horrible years 40 years ago, everything was removed, it was ONLY through the GRACE OF GOD, I lived .
I guess if you go the GOD PATH, (people, places, things could be removed to PRUNE you) ,… there is price to pay.
Nick Fuentes.
Nick Fuentes is a Deep State tool
i don’t agree.
smart is the ability to collate knowledge filtered thru one’s own cognitive ability, with a dash of intuition and experience.
dependance on AI might make you informed about what AI was programmed to make you think,
but i wouldn’t define that as smart.
reliance on AI might, in fact, make one less smart,
as individual thinking recedes in favor of AI’s viewpoint.
in that respect, Mark Steyn is VERY smart –
all his conclusions reached on his own, without AI.
perhaps for times, dates, places, AI is a useful aid.
but i won’t let tesla drive my car and i won’t let AI do my thinking.
JMHO.
Haung’s father was a chemical engineer. You could say that Haung was just a chip off the old block.
“Essentially, Haung explains the smart person is alone, tuning themselves into the vibration that is the consequence of human activity, financial interests, geopolitical movement, social transformation, economic shifts and cultural modifications.”
IAW “connecting the dots” which AI can do very well. HOWEVER, since it currently uses products from humans with their biases, its products, especially on political topics require skeptical analysis by humans adept at critical thought and analysis.
All I know I learned from Sundance. 🧐
Quite similar to what makes a great athlete, as attributed to Wayne Gretzky – “I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.”
The deep south woodcarver explaining how he could, consistently produce the most beautiful, lifesize ducks: “I just cut away everything that is not duck.”
Most of the way through this interview, I conclude … ‘America First’ is Smart
It’s smart and critical for our survival.
AI is just a better search engine. It cannot access any content behind pay walls, academic, institutional, or private sites that require a subscription. Of course this is where the most useful data resides. Plus, it will take 5 to 8 years to to convert the Library of Congress to be accessible if they get around ©️ restrictions…
I remembe reading this book when it first came out, and the truth of it was so eye-opening that this is when I began searching for others who could see what was what, and that is what led me to the Treehouse about a year later having noticed constant references to the Treehouse on Doug Ross’ blogspot:
https://directorblue.blogspot.com/
and simultaneously canceled our office’s subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal, Time and Newsweek and put in subscriptions to Sports Illustrated and some Mine Engineering for the waiting room as I just couldn’t continue to feed people with irrelevant information and couldn’t justify the cost.
One teacher I had in the early years was there are two kinds of people, one are called seekers, the other finders, and we were urged to learn how to become a finder. DirectorBlue blogspot, Mark Steyn’s writings, Watts Up With That and The Conservative Treehouse became the places to find in those early days where writers were still free to say what they wanted to say, before the censors began to fight back.
Before smart there is faith.
And faith without courage is not smart.
Steyn was brilliant in that interview. Thanks.
Huang is a BS artist selling to the AI merchants.
AI has NO knowledge. It has information. And that information includes all the garbage that the left wants to force on us. Instead of us accepting or discarding information, when we use AI, someone else is doing that and forcing the result upon us.
AI also has NO understanding. It just spews out words that go together in that information.
AI doesn’t know the meanings of those words.
AI has NO intelligence at all.
And computers have no sentience. They blindly carry out instructions.
Maybe there is some Utopia where all information will be gathered and great intelligences can use tools to learn and grow from that information. We used to call those libraries and universities. But those things have fallen astray.
Now AI is skipping the good parts and going straight to manipulation and control.
In short, AI is the greatest argument today for expanding our personal knowledge. If we don’t, we won’t ever free ourselves. And we won’t ever be allowed to be smart like Steyn.
All I see him define is the game that they have used to play us for decades…..
Now you can see where all the control and manipulation have led….
And the reason they cling to it at all costs….
No, intelligent isn’t playing their game….
Intelligent is seeing through it….
NO MERCY!
What a great 38 minute interview. If SD, did not preface the fact that this was 2010 this could be played today and you would be hard pressed to dispute the claims that Mark has made.
The key take away from this for me is that over 16 years look at the demographic make up of the countries discussed, this is where the liberals “held” the upper hand as time was always on their side as they would patiently wait. Now the liberals have run out of patience and want this extreme change now and our eyes are wide open to the transformation taking place.
Can this intentional carnage be reversed, I think our lord and savior is the only one capable of answering that.
Great find SD, thanks.
It doesn’t matter how smart you are if you believe the wrong things. Better a dumb guy who will listen than a genius who won’t.
Proverbs 1:7, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
MAGA
I can’t recall where I read this quote by Mark Steyn, but it resonated with me so much that I wrote it down and refer to it sometimes.
Mark Steyn: “I take the same view to the civilized world that Islam takes to the dar al islaam…once we hold this, we hold this forever and we will not surrender it.”
This muslim belief is why it pains me to see foolish Western leaders tolerate their behavior.
(Edit: If you haven’t read Steyn’s obit for “Take ‘er down!” Ted Kennedy, it’s worth finding. Sheer brilliance.)
Looking only at the end of this article, I have to ask. Why didn’t Trump tackle Cuba first?
That dictatorship is a dead man walking, right now.
Iran, on the other hand is the strongest opponent Trump has ever encountered. Religious fanaticism with its willingness to die for its principles is a toughest hardline opponent Trump will have ever faced in his lifetime.
Smartest guy in my opinion. My dad. He taught me everything, especially how to survive during hard economic time. That’s my world. Outside these four walls. Thomas Sewell.
Don’t know if Mark is the smartest, but he is indeed smart.
To Steve Robinson:
Agree totally, Steyn was the best guest host of them all.
Steyn should have been the heir-apparent to Rush.
Sadly, he was not.
I always enjoyed Steyn especially when he sat in for Rush. And I appreciate Thomas Sowell’s wisdom. But I think the “Great Discerner” is our dear host, Sundance, The Master of the 10, 000 piece puzzle and Articulator in Chief. Still on the fence as to whether Sundance is a Time Traveler.. 🙂