5/20/2026 at 9:03:55 AM
The part of his speech that I found most offensive was:"When someone offers you a seat on the rocketship, you do not ask which seat. You just get on. [...] Find a way to say yes."
In my understanding, that's the billionaire class telling you where your place is in their plan for the world. Nobody asks if you even want to leave the planet, figuratively speaking.
The last sentence in particular shows the contempt he has for the students in the audience, and is reminiscent of another (alleged) incident: https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/tried-to-convince-me-i-...
The quoted part of the speech can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MYggR_PPRg
by antfarm
5/20/2026 at 2:34:22 PM
> that's the billionaire class telling you where your place is in their plan for the worldThe interesting thing is the advice isn’t terrible. The speaker, however, has no right delivering it.
by JumpCrisscross
5/20/2026 at 3:13:56 PM
I find his advice rather terrible to be honest. Accepting AI and integrating it deeply into your work and life so you won't be among those made obsolete by AI will accelerate exactly that replacement process even further. Looks a lot like a new variant of self-fulfilling prophecy.by antfarm
5/20/2026 at 4:10:02 PM
> Accepting AI and integrating it deeply into your work and life so you won't be among those made obsolete by AI will accelerate exactly that replacement process even furtherSchmidt is paraphrasing advice around getting on a boat. Broadly speaking, if there is a green field and you're young and ambitious and not born rich, and you're able to choose whether or not to get on board, your odds are better there than wherever you are right now.
The analogy with AI would be doing something few others are doing. Just "accepting AI and integrating it deeply" is closer to trend following.
by JumpCrisscross
5/20/2026 at 4:35:51 PM
Schmidt is admonishing people for resisting what he and others in a small group of morally deficient technocrats are coercing them to do.He's distracting people to pay no attention to the unintended consequences of their actions, distracting people from the Epstein files and the role of many of the people in his circle in them, and he's bloviating in front of a bunch of people who see through his tenuous charade.
by Teever
5/20/2026 at 2:49:13 PM
What delulu-land do you live in where the advice is not terrible?by wccvw
5/20/2026 at 4:42:43 PM
reminds me of c.m. kornbluth’s ‘march of the morons’ , highly recommended.by signa11
5/20/2026 at 1:33:20 PM
When someone demands you go to Epstein Island you swim if you have to.This is the same guy that is testing autonomous murder drones in Ukraine to make his next billion.
So much let them eat cake energy with this guy.
by sitkack
5/20/2026 at 2:39:52 PM
You're not serious, are you? Who is being "murdered" in Ukraine? Do those people have any right, or any business to be there? Whose country is Ukraine anyway?by somelamer567