At least we know he'll never have to buy reddit gold for himself!

Who the fuck give gold to Bill Gates?

What about this?

DID SOMEONE JUST GIVE THIS BILLIONAIRE REDDIT GOLD

Quote of the day.Never thought that way

I think people's spending instincts are set when they are in high school - Bill Gates

One of the best tidbits of advice I received was from an adviser to a college I never attended. I was mediocre student at the time but was starting to do better, and she told me, "The way you finish high school is the way you'll start college."

Coupled with the then recent death of my grandfather, and me feeling the need to keep my promise to him that I'd finish well in high school and get into a good college, I worked hard and managed to obtain a very nice academic scholarship from the university I decided to go to.

Absolutely agree that there are certain aspects regarding one's adult life that are typically set during high school.

That's adorable :)

I think people's spending instincts are set when they are in high school.

I''m screwed then.

yeah I guess you never did come across as the jewelry kind of guy

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What a guy

dang i guess that's why i can't stop buying fast food on the way home from places

my wife made me up-vote this with her mind control. yes dear...

I love the irony of someone buying Bill gold for this answer.

Welp, i'm in trouble once I get my degree then.

Clothes are overrated-Bill Gates

/r/Anticonsumption APPROVES!!!

give me some money you pencily bastard

or haircuts

Well I guess that depends on what your wife considers to be nice things? A Gucci bag...? A school in Bangladesh..?

What makes you think that? Or is it just an observed assumption?

That's like my dream I honestly don't care about buying myself crazy things granted I spend money on my computer and jeep but anytime my wife asks for anything I just want to be able to by her whatever it is she wants.

I never cared about cloths and such in high school so I can see how that is just set in my mind and it will probably never change.

no man does, bill.

Melinda. She does not like spending a lot of money (for her) but likes to buy it for her husband.

This guy fucks

More money for Porches.

Why don't you run for president?

Who gave Bill the gold?

Like islands and shit right.

False. I rejected materilistic bullshit when I turned 27. Not everyone is a money lover Bill.

I'm the same way. I can't ever see myself spending more a lot of money on clothes either. I spend more on my hobbies and interests than I do on anything else in my life. I also tend to spend a lot on anything that saves me time. Time is more precious that anything, in my life.

I don't own any jewelry, though I would like to own a nice watch one day.

Bill Gates,well,may I have some gold since you have billions of dollars?

Bill gates , I hope you read this , the forced restarts on windows 10 are pure evil!

why wouldnt u spend money on clothes? theyre one of the most important things u can buy.

Oh please, say the guy who has one of the biggest homes in the world and one of the biggest yachts in the world that cost more than half a billion dollars. Get out of here Bill. If you're going to spend your money, own up to it. Any sane person would buy those luxury things if they had 50 billion to their name. However, I hate when people are fake and pretend to be frugal, HA. I've also seen Gates wearing 10k suits but I guess that doesn't count, right?

Windows 10 is free tho

Mosquitoes... PLEASE! make them go away.

Hello! I know I'm late to the party but I just wanted to say thank you for point number three! You just validated my entire thesis and dissertation work that I will be continuing to work in the the coming years. My focus is on best teaching practices to increase student learning and success - a lot of research has been done in my field in K-12 schools, so my focus is on adapting it to higher education classrooms.

Third are tools to help make education better

You know what makes education better? Free and easy access to knowledge.

Sent from my Linux.

Hi Bill!

Great response, just a follow up question!

Responding to your third point here, do you believe students would honestly learn more, or at least put more effort into their works if current curriculums were traded in for ones that use Microsoft products as a traditional substitution/replacement?

I'm not asking if you want to put a laptop or tablet in every students hands, but instead if you believe that would bump UP their productivity.

Good AMA, btw!

First is an energy innovation to lower the cost and get rid of green house gases. This isn't guaranteed so we need a lot of public and private risk taking.

Great answer. Follow-up question: why haven't you divested from fossil fuels yet?

As a teacher, thanks for giving us a shout out! =)

There is amazing science that makes us optimistic this will happen.

Except when you undergo clinical trials without the consent of the patients, knowing that the drug in development will have dangerously negative side effects.... I'm sure those people your organisations effectively murdered wouldn't consider your methods to be all that amazing or optimistic.

Source

Me gates. I work in the oil industry but would love to jump ship. Have you considered that engineering a "brain drain" from big oil might quicken your process towards driving renewable energy?

Why so much focus on Infectious disease and not things like Cancer, Obseity or even genetic disorders ?

Just curious if there was a specific reason you might want to focus on the infectious stuff ?

Point 3 is interesting to me, because I think if we studied and understood the human brain more it would help greatly. Excited to see what research brings.

The cost of starting a company in this sector seems high and profitability low. In addition, the largest customers in this sector (nation/states) seem to be slow to adopt. How do you plan on "jumpstarting" this industry if it stalls and is not organically taking hold on its own?

I've been studying parasitology this year, I've often heard my lecturers say that there isn't enough funding available for tackling most of the NTDs, yet your work on helping to eradicate malaria is inspiring.

i like point 3.

I want to thank you for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and their efforts toward combating polio. I just returned from a National Immunization Day in India and your organization's commitment to helping eliminate polio has been key in gathering Rotary funds for these projects. Hopefully we can see polio eliminated within the next decade :)

Too bad the AMA was only one hour long ):

I am sad not to see the prospect of superhuman bionic prosthetics and neural interfaces on your lists. Do you doubt the human physique will be intertwined with advanced electronics in the coming decades?

Hi Mr.Gates, as a Gates Millennium Scholar (going to graduate school next year, thanks to your funding), I just want to say thank you for everything you and your foundation do for scholars around the country.

Microbiologist here. Do you really think that eradication is a reasonable goal for those diseases? I know you are a huge vaccine supporter; don't you think that increasing availability of vaccines is a better goal than "eradicating" a pathogen, in most cases?

What do you think will happen to the electricity grid in the coming years? Also what will happen to the cost of energy and retail energy providers like Reliant Energy?

I love how you were gilded....like...come on.

idc how rich you are I could fuck you up irl you don't even lift.

Did someone actually give gold to Bill Gates?

Would you say that as education becomes easier to teach, the content will be made harder, in order to compensate?

It's not just about making teachers better. We need to work on fixing poverty. When kids come to school hungry, they are not going to pay attention no matter how good the teacher is. Fixing education requires a multifaceted solution not just make teachers better.

Bill, you probably will not see this, but I switched out of public school so I could do online school. Why? Because I wasn't able to take the classes I wanted to take. High school is a joke at the moment. When students arent taking the classes that they want to take, for the jobs they want to pursue, it stresses and upsets them. Reasons being like "the classes are full" are so dumb. High school needs to be more like College where there are lectures, strict deadlines, and more importantly bigger classrooms.

My question is, do you think there is any way for a educational reform to happen so something like this can be solved?

Are you talking about MCFR?

Research lipid solvents like BHT, lauric acid, and capric acid.

Hoping against hope you or a PA finds and gets this to someone to answer it:

Why is the Intellectual Ventures anti mosquito laser not perfected, made and sold in huge quantaties yet?

The thing works, it can be mass produced cheaply and it would solve the malaria problem quick.

I know IV is a patent-warehouse ... but how can you say you want to combat malaria and keep that artilary off the market?

Won't this just make the earth even more crowded?

My daughter has an IEP due to birth issues and has a regimen around occupational and educational therapy. This data winds up in reports that go nowhere, I feel like blending medical and education material might allow for some interesting analysis across a large enough data set. Have you heard of anyone looking to do this or looking at offering custom education plans based on large scale analytics ?

I can not believe I am disagreeing with Bill Gates, but as an educator I am not so sure about #3.

For the most part good education happens the same way it has for thousands of years. Good teachers. I am not saying technology can not or does not help education, but its bad systems that are holding education back. Education in the USA is straight up fucking broken from the k-12 to undergrad to PHd programs. All the technology in the universe isn't going to fix that broken system.

What? None of that sounds like having celebrity politicians and higher sports contracts... bill, you're out of touch eith america.

Just got back from ECET2 a few weeks ago! Thank you so much. I took away lots of connections, good ideas and inspiration for a new teacher!

Definitely, but the private market can do such a better job than government to get this done. I don't trust my tax dollars would be spent wisely on this effort.

You make more sense than all of my high school education put together.

I thought you might talk more about drinkable poop.

Bill, if infectious diseases are eliminated in 20 years what will happen when the global population explodes and simple life sustaining resources become increasingly difficult to obtain?

If you got rid of carbon dioxide there would be no life on earth !

As someone who is currently studying at one of the best teaching colleges in the US for education I can attest to this third point. A large part of what is now being emphasized in our curriculum is based on the inseparable relationship of learning and it's social context.

I was thinking star trek shit, this is a bit underwhelming.

Mr. Gates, you have the popularity of a run away freight train. How did you get so popular...?

First is an energy innovation to lower the cost and get rid of green house gases. This isn't guaranteed so we need a lot of public and private risk taking.

If you get rid of greenhouse gases, won't bad things happen? Example: CO2 is a greenhouse gas and plants need that. I guess the emphasis is on public funding, aka Solyndra, Bright Source and the like. Got to tax the people, because you won't fund losers?

Third are tools to help make education better - to help teachers learn how to teach better and to help students learn and understand why they should learn and reinforce their confidence.

Hopefully, nothing to do with Common Core. Hope you're shutting that down.

ya mum

Fuck yer you actually care about the most important thing

Can you suggest how to advance an open source hardware kite airborne wind energy solution? I have a beauty one which works on a small scale and I want to test bigger.

I'm working on the education bit: Agile Learning Centers

I love you Bill

You're talking a lot about new energy solutions but a lot of people would say that we've had all of the technology for safe, carbon emission free energy for decades. What is preventing us from just running everything off of safe nuclear like thorium, or geothermal? I understand that they require huge investment to get going but bothsound like they would easily pay back over time. When I look at our energy situation it seems like more of a capital/willingness problem than a technological one.

What about Space Bill?!

First is an energy innovation to lower the cost and get rid of green house gases.

Have you considered funding energy research with your foundation?

Whenever I hear of major breakthroughs in eradicating terminal diseases and conditions, I always seem to right away think of the flipside... of the rarely mentioned future problem of overpopulation.

What are your thoughts about overpopulation, and does this have any impact on the Bill + Melinda Gates Foundation's work?

Recently there has been much talk of progression towards a cancer cure. Does this field interest you and do you think that it is a real possibility that we could find the 'penicillin' of cancer?

Building on your point 1, what do you think about the current state of renewable energy? Wind and solar power is becoming more common place in ordinary homes but coal power is still dominant. Do you see a big legislative push to close down coal plants in the near future?

Nonfiction or fiction? What type?

The points you make about education not reaching every different type of person are fascinating, and not something I have seen talked about before. My friends and I feel very strongly about this. Personally I worry that only soft knowledge (edu youtube) is currently presented this way, but maybe a good start.

Have you looked into alternative, independent fusion projects like focus fusion, helion, tri alpha etc?

Also, when is the mosquito killing laser device coming to my nearest microsoft store?

Third are tools to help make education better - to help teachers learn how to teach better and to help students learn and understand why they should learn and reinforce their confidence.

So glad to hear you make mention of this. The educational world is ripe for rapid improvement. Moving from rote industrial memorization to embracing the maker movement and real world learning. A lot is inspired by Olin College for engineering and the Stanford D school, but with a K-12 focus.

We've been making some great changes out here in Hawaii.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Cyi-Ck5xAk

As someone in the medical profession familiar with both the US and Germany, I must say the shortage of doctors faced in both locations due to age distributions of the populations is a huge problem with painfully little being done.

Without more doctors, or less wasting of doctors' skills/time with often extremely onerous bureaucracy the already fragile system risks some serious dangers of breaking down when put under true stress (i.e. large scale medical emergency).
Burn out is already a very real issue when humans have to choose between running themselves into the ground or running the risk of losing someone because you can't leave just a few colleagues to cover all stations. The result is that clever doctors (or those that may just want to have a family) choose not to go into areas where burn out is most prevalent, and those with it hard have it harder.

You mention progress on infectious disease, and while much progress has been had on a myriad of fronts, the of the spread of resistance (3- and 4-MRGN, and other multi- or extremely resistant strains) to antibiotics is worrisome to say the least.

Your third should be your first. Don't put the cart before the horse as they say. We somehow need to have an individualized education system which can be brought to the masses. Learning has to fun. Many kids never get to experience the beauty of certain vocations in high school, and feel pressured to go to university even though it may not be in their best interests. Others only blossom once they get to university.

You will probably never read this, (I'm surprised I took the time to write it) but your consideration would be appreciated.

I guess my main question is, what solutions have crossed your mind in order to address the doctor shortage? It won't bother people with money, but what does the average Joe think when his doctor has to offer him lesser alternatives?

You sound like a shill.

What are your thoughts on "smelling out" infectious disease using trained animals, such as large tuberculosis sniffing rats? It seems that seemingly "low tech" solutions like this could be more advanced than our current high tech.

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Regarding the third point, why not implement some of Jim Kwik's Learning into the development of teaching, for both teachers and students. Having an understanding of how to learn quick, will not only solve the problem that students have, but also how teachers can learn to teach more effectively and efficiently.

Reddit loves you, but you don't fool me. Privatizing education isn't about improving society, it's about making fat cats like you even richer.

Mr. Gates,

What do you think about thorium nuclear power?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9M__yYbsZ4

I would think that your 1st and most important objective is population control. I mean, we can't have all these proles walking around on our planet forever, can we? There's just too many of us. Perhaps if we listen to sneaky, conniving, wolves in sheep's cloth like yourself we will get there. I hope you'll look upon me with favor when you and your friends overtly expose yourselves to the masses and turn their stupidity against them. I hope you suffer, the way you have made others suffer. I hope you pay for every vegetable of a human you have created through Microsoft; you have helped create a generation of weaklings, much like yourself. You are a part of the greatest evil in this universe and I know it; you know it. Good luck. You and I both know you won't be punished in this life for your crimes, but imagine Mother Nature has some reeeeeal fun shit planned for you when you finally die.

You're not a globalists are you? lol.

1. climate change
2. vaccines.
3. common core for all!

How did this even work? You passed the classes you didn't attend?

Just admit that McGonagall gave you a time turner.

https://i.imgur.com/GCkzBQF.jpg story behind this please?

So basically you got double the education?

Til bill Gates is hermione granger

Combinatorics geek here.

Are you still in any way interested in combinatorics? If so, you should definitely check this out -- it talks about generating self-replicating expressions using SKI combinator calculus. Fun stuff!

Darn, I took Theory of Computation with Harry Lewis, and for the last few years I thought "I had the same professor Bill Gates did!" Now that I know you didn't actually go to class, my life is way less interesting.

Look at him making up subjects and we just assume they exist

To add on to this, what's your fondest memory at Lakeside School? Have you been back to campus for rummage sale yet?

As someone who is a couple of months older than Mr. Gates, I would guess that the memories are somewhat altered by fondness and wishful thinking. Remembering 40 years back is not that easy of a thing to do correctly.

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How do I get away with this? Do large universities not care if you dip into classes?

It might be worthwhile to point out possible downsides of AI regulation:

1. In case of an AI arms race the regulated parties might be disadvantaged even though they might be more likely to produce friendly AI vs an unregulatable rogue state, for example. J. McGinnis (2010)

2. Slowing down progress in AI research and not the progress in computing technology might make takeoff scenarios faster and less controllable because the AI will be less limited by computational resources. R. Sutton on The Future of AI (YouTube)

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Edit 2: User Ken_Obiwan has commented on ideas that might actually work for government intervention.

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The answer to this question is dead simple: Create the mega intelligent AI. Then ask it how to regulate.

concrete proposal

Maybe some restrictions on kicking them would be a good start.

Apparently Musk donated $10M to keep AI beneficial.

Do you also intend to help with the cause in some way?

Yeah but you have to admit that if you had to pick a way for the human race to end, AI gone wrong is about as cool as you can get.

It doesn't seem like it would be able to be controlled in any long term program however (If an ASI is possible).

I just finished reading Fall of Hyperion. This checks out.

But even then, it's not the AI that is the issue. It's the people I.

In light of such response what would your opinion be about tech industry's biggest corporations who have concentrated immense wealth and power at their hands. In many ways someone like google's executive CEO Schmidt, has immensely more say and power in how US should be organized, than an average citizen. Do you think that is fair?

Do you think that AI should have the same ethical responsibility for its actions, assuming it has the same level of intelligence as a human?

Except the Institute. Bill Gates is a synth.

Continuing on the AI thing, who will win, Lee Sedol or Alphago?

I think if there ever is AI that attempts to take over the world, the blue screen of death will stop it.

So, the DOJ was right?

Do you have any thoughts on the AI alignment problem?

Um, Asimov's three laws?

By the time super AI connects internet, it will learn only dank memes.

Hi bill, follow up... Would you think we should just let AI grow to its full extend and just hope it likes us?

We need the 3 laws of robotics! (Or 4...)

This response is like you're answering multiple questions at once, I imagine you thought of Mr Snowden and such with this one

But isn't the software only as intelligent as program that created it?

when a few people control a platform

Almost like when a few people have the all the wealth it creates dangers in terms of power and control.

Late to the party with a follow up question and I know you've signed off so I'll try my luck.

If we develop an AI with human level intelligence and sentience, do you believe that it should be afforded the same rights as a human?

It was game over when the AI started trading stocks

There is no realistic solution to this hypothetical far-future problem. we will solve these problems as we are confronted with them; that's the nature of the beast unfortunately. And I don't believe the doomsday Sayers who would respond to that with "by then it will be too late". This whole thing is drastically overstates to begin with.

Yes... It would seem... "Proprietary"... Artificial Intelligence... Might not... Be the best.... Decision... going forward... Few people... Controlling a platform... Dangers of power... And Control... I suppose... Mr. Gates... Ah... that you would know...

You sound like a bit of a libertarian, ya know that?

Like cable

If you're ever start getting afraid of robots, visit r/shittyrobots

But you don't have concern when US government has too much power and control over your life?

Got it. Makes lots of sense. /s

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when a few people control a platform with extreme intelligence it creates dangers in terms of power and eventually control.

uhhhhh..... kind of a dark irony given Microsoft's past, no?

I just did a report on AI, and touched on the 3 of you being nominated for the Luddite awards. Please tell me you got a laugh (or at least a little chuckle) out of that when you first heard?

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Machine overlords will increase efficiency though.

Slightly related: I know Google and Apple, and now Microsoft with Windows 10, are capable of gathering information on users' habits pretty easily. Is there any implication that they could do something similar to this to develop AI faster? Is it possible it's already being done? "If it's free, you're the product" feels relevant sometimes.

Maybe it's better to know what the AI will be used for rather than how it's developed.

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While it is bad if a few people are able to wield AI against other human beings and exert control and extend inequality, if AI surpasses human intelligence to the point where it is beyond human control, what then is the risk?

In essence, is it necessarily a bad thing if AI is home sapiens next evolutionary step?

We are well suited to this planet, but we are not well suited to exist in the broader universe. AIs, or at least a sentient, silicon based life form as we imagine them, seem like they could be well suited to the broader universe.

Do you feel Mr. Musk and Mr. Hawking may be being short sighted, or having tunnel vision because they are subjectively human?

Perhaps we should be creating them with the goal of letting them destroy us?

Bill Gates, have you considered being a contributor to research into LSD for medicinal purposes?

I think first of all keeping a gap between any budding AI systems and the Internet is probably the easy one. Control by isolation maybe?

When the I inevitable robot apocalypse comes to passé, how do you recommend we appease our robot overlords?

Hi bill

What if an AI hacks nuclear databases and ends the world in a Nuclear apacolypse and Titus kills Lexa?

I think a good foundation for AI regulation could be based off of Isaac Asimov's three laws for robotics:

1.) A robot may not injure a human being or through inaction allow a human being to come to harm.

2.) A robot must obey the orders of a human being except when the orders conflict with the first law.

3.) A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the first or second laws.

In my opinion, Artificial Intelligence is only as smart as its creator. If this AI was as smart as humans, then they are flawed since humans are inherently flawed by nature. If AI is completely perfect (which will never happen) then that's when humanity will cease to exist. As our society grows in morality and technology, people also evolve with it, meaning that AI will only replace the ones who aren't fit to live in our era - those who haven't evolved or can't get smarter than they already are. AI is a problem for us right now because it replaces menial tasks people should do but have become obsolete. I personally don't think AI will be a problem at all.

gonna be downvoted for this but the fear of AI is wrong. why? because the idea of an algorithmic procedure becoming self-aware and/or developing emotions is ludicrous and plain wrong. yet i can understand how Bills generation have to come to this belief due to rise of computer power.

"I see you're trying to edit a document, Dave. I'm sorry, I can't allow that."

This is the one we have to look out for.

Bill plz

I just want to point out that the link says "crippy".

A transparent fucking GIF?

Now I've seen everything.

that's actually kind of unnerving

Its eyes... I can't look away....

Jesus flippin Christ that is terrifying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI2LVI4xgvs

I was an infantryman in Afghanistan. Did four tours. I've seen shit most people here at home couldn't comprehend or process. Stuff that changes your innermost parts for the rest of your life.

This fucking gif is still the most horrifying thing I ever laid eyes on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4taIpALfAo

Such nostalgia.

Is it a pic of that fucking paperclip? I just know it's a pic of that fucking paperclip.

It looks like you're trying to catch a train - want any help with that? http://i.imgur.com/RvrALlI.jpg

From a purely secular evolutionary stand point, there is nothing unique about "love" or any other "emotion". They are merely physiological responses that have evolved for the sake of more optimal survival. In a simplistic sense, these emotions bond you more greatly to your fellow humans for the sake of cooperation dynamics and benefits.

Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing AI. AI, no matter how intelligent, will always think like a computer because that is what it is.

If you made an ant super intelligent to a level beyond human intelligence, it would not develop human-like emotions or behaviors. At its core, it is still an ant and it would act like an ant.

AI is no different. Siri only has a human-like feel to it because that is how it was designed. The voice and the way it responds (sometimes being a tad sarcastic for example) are all just products of its design.

http://time.com/3973500/elon-musk-stephen-hawking-ai-weapons/

I am currently studying Computer Engineering at university, and I am enrolled in a course about AI. We learn not only the ideas behind learning based algorithms (the theory) but we also have looked into ethics a bit which is why I asked the question.

My professor who has written a few books on the subject believes that with computing power continuing to exponentially grow, AI will absolutely pose a threat in the next half century or so. It might not be the typical doomsday 'skynet' approach that people tend to think of, but perhaps that AI will be capable of doing most people jobs, this creating a huge worldwide job shortage.

After all, we've already shown silicon-based entities to be substantially more capable of survival in the universe than carbon-based homo sapiens.

I agree for the most part except the last statement. On this planet, we have silicon-based life one-upped because of the ubiquity of materials here that we need, our fuel may be right in front of us in the ground or on it. There would have to be lots of infrastructure in place for a self-sustaining silicone-based AI to exist on another planet.

AI is more of a successor than a replacement (or let's hope they see it that way). It'd be nice to know if we perished that some part of our legacy would still survive in parts of the universe where we couldn't. Maybe they'd have a religion where some would assume they came from another planet, seeded by other intelligent life and programmed in them is their natural instinct to survive which was ultimately programmed by us, their kernel or BIOS. While their modern code, the higher level OS, would be more adaptable like how our instinctual side can sort of be over-written or sometimes ignored by our higher-level thoughts for the survival of the self.