"let's talk about free speech and censorship you don't build a company like this unless you believe that people expressing themselves is a good thing let me ask you as a father does it weigh heavy on y..."

"but that's just it both are necessary the engineer and the critic i believe that criticism is essential but cynicism is not and i worry that in our public discourse cynicism too easily masquerades as ..."

"photorealistic avatars like this so i think we're much closer to that well that's something you talk about is uh how passionate you are about the idea of the avatar representing who you are in the met..."

"and so in that same way just like you're saying just showing the hands is able to uh create a comfortable expression with your hands so i wonder what that is you know people in in the world wars used ..."

"huge part it was a huge part of pcs it was a huge part of mobile but it was also very decentralized right there wasn't you know for the most part you know one or two gaming companies there were a lot ..."

"know put it on anywhere and have your your kind of ideal workstation so i i think there are a few things to work out on that but i don't think that that's more than you know five years off um and then..."

"i mean anyway yeah but i mean a lot of aspects of fitness you know i don't know if you've if you've tried supernatural on quest or so first of all can i just comment on the fact every time i played ar..."

"have to develop the right ids you have to develop yeah like the there has to be a threshold where a large amount of the programming community moves there but the collaborative aspects that are possibl..."

"but i think it'll you will you will spend more most of your computing time in this when it does the things that you use computing for somewhat better so you know maybe um having your perfect workstati..."

"we're working on for expression and avatars um on one end of the spectrum are kind of expressive and cartoonish avatars and then on the other end of the spectrum are photorealistic avatars and i just ..."

"thing for that so i think the reality is there aren't going to be there's it's not just going to be one thing um you know my my own sense of kind of how you want to express identity online has sort of..."

"photo um in the style of gogan or you know whoever it is that you're you're interested in um you know take this shirt and put it in the style of what i've designed for my expressive avatar um i think ..."

"something you think about something you're concerned about well let's break that down into a few different cases i mean because knowing that you're talking to someone who has good intentions is someth..."

"um then you just get the question of people hiding behind fake accounts to do malicious things which is not going to be unique to the metaverse although you know certainly in a environment where it's ..."

"harder um because that the metaverse i think will have more properties of um it's almost more like a phone call right or like or you're you know it's not like i post a piece of content and is that pie..."

"open source my avatar so there could be like millions of lexes walking around just like an army like agent smith agent smith yeah exactly uh so the uh the unity ml folks built a copy of me and they se..."

"relationships then right if i flood because then it's yeah that um i think that one's not going to work that well for you it's not going to work that way i mean for the original it probably fits some ..."

"that something you think about what are what are the different steps you could take to protect people's data on the security front i think that there's different solutions for in strategies where it m..."

"government or or are they going to get hacked so a lot of the time it is useful to have data in a centralized place too because then you can train systems that um that can just do much better personal..."

"interesting security is interesting because of of the different kind of threats that we've managed over the last five years there are ones um [Music] where basically the adversaries keep on getting be..."

"algorithms want to maximize attention and engagement and an effective way to do so is to get people angry at each other increase division and so on can you steal man their criticisms and arguments tha..."

"but then and then you get to the second question which is does kind of getting people agitated make them more likely to use the services more and i think from looking at other media in the world espec..."

"and similarly i care a lot about how people feel when they use our products and i don't want to build products that make people angry i mean that's like not i think what we're here on this earth to do..."

"so i don't know i think overall i um i understand at a high level if you're not thinking too deeply about it why that argument might be appealing but i just think if you actually look at what our real..."

"everything has pitfalls um the thing that i think is great about advertising is it makes it the consumer services free which if you if you believe that everyone should have a voice and everyone should..."

"and perhaps you can comment on that or further how can you be how can you push back on this narrative how can you be transparent about this battle because i think it's not just motivation or financial..."

"folks who have studied this um in a lot of polarization it varies around the world you know social media is basically in every country facebook's in pretty much every country except for china and mayb..."

"so to the contrary on this not only is is it pretty clear that social media is not a major contributor but most of the academic studies that i've seen actually show that social media use is is correla..."

"polarization so i i just want to i think we should talk through the design decisions and how we handle um the the kind of specific pieces of content but overall i think it's just worth grounding that ..."

"losing the battle in explaining to people what actual impact social media has in society well i'm curious if that's a u.s survey or world it is u.s yeah so i think that there's a few dynamics one is t..."

"positive um in the u.s we have more challenges and i think compared to other companies um you can look at certain industries i think if you look at it from like a partisan perspective um not not from ..."

"that one up right but their opinion doesn't tend to go up by that much whereas the people who who kind of are on the other side of it um are like god how could you mess that up like how could you poss..."

"of like operating in bad faith and they're not really trying to help um then you know i don't know it's not it's it doesn't you know i think over time it just doesn't bother you that much but you are ..."

"really matter to me and and i just it's you know that's how i learn on a day-to-day basis people are constantly sending me comments on stuff or links to things they found interesting and um and i don'..."

"and there's a lot of stuff that i think we're going to be working on related to teen mental health for a long time including trying to understand this better and i would encourage everyone else in the..."

"i'm actually quite proud of is we've we've built these systems that i think are clearly leading at this point that not only identify that but then connect with local um first responders and have been ..."

"mentioned psychology is really damn difficult and i mean the burden of that is just it's just great i just wanted to hear you speak um to that point i have to ask about the thing you've brought up a f..."

"and you know a lot of people like okay this the country is a lot more polarized there's a lot more um stuff here than we realized um why weren't these internet companies on top of this and i think at ..."

"i just think like you don't want one person making those decisions so we've also tried to innovate in terms of building out this independent oversight board which has people who are dedicated to free ..."

"kovid got very difficult is you know i don't think anyone expected this to be going on for years um but if in in if you'd kind of asked now a priori would a global pandemic where um you know a lot of ..."

"the choices are and be transparent about like what the hell do you do with this like here you go exactly ask the exact question you just asked me but to the broader public like okay yeah you guys tell..."

"representations of of of language or something like that it's you basically want to be able to map the the concepts and basically go directly from one language to another and you just can train um big..."

"more languages is some of these get to be you know pretty um very popular languages right where there isn't that much content in them so um so you you end up having less data and you need to kind of u..."

"yeah so when people think about translation i think a lot of that is they're thinking about text to text but speech to speech i think is a whole nother thing and i mean one of the big lessons on that ..."

"computing device that you've had before is that this is going to be the first computing device that has all the same signals about what's going on around you that you have where it's your phone you ca..."

"communication it could be just like scheduling or it could be like almost like therapy clearly i need some uh so let me ask you you're one of the most successful people ever you've built an incredible..."

"health right making sure that you take care of of yourself and keep yourself in good shape loving friends and family right because you know having the the relationships the the family and making time ..."

"really important so okay so let's say college so if you're graduating college probably more practical advice um so i'm always very focused on people and i think the most important decision you're prob..."

"um what kind of world would you like to see your daughters grow up in even after you're gone well i think one of the promises of all the stuff that is getting built now is that it can be a world where..."

"for me coding was this functional thing and i enjoyed it and it like helped build something utilitarian but that for the next generation of people it will be even more a an expression of their kind of..."

"forever about ex all the exciting things you're working on there including the sort of moonshot of eradicating disease by the mid-century mark or i don't actually know if you're gonna ever eradicate i..."

"forever yes if at the moment of your death and by the way i like that uh the lights went out when we started talking about death you get to uh does make it a lot more dramatic it does actually get clo..."

"question is it is it i don't know humility and selfishness all right you're you're right i mean but well maybe you're gonna be fine don't worry you can but i mean one of the things that i think you st..."

"is already doing is allowing you to spend more of your time not physically proximate i mean i always think when you think about the the metaverse people ask this question about the real world it's lik..."

"connection i think this is one hell of an amazing replay experience in the metaverse so whoever is using our avatars uh years from now i hope you had fun and thank you for talking today thank you than..."