I don’t really do imposter syndrome, that’s where you feel like you don’t belong. I have a superior syndrome called “Hahaha I fooled them again” syndrome where I know that I don’t belong, but I also am very pleased that I have once again cleverly convinced you that I do. 我其实不会患什么“冒牌货综合征”——那种觉得自己不属于这里的感觉。我患的是一种更高级的综合征，叫作“哈哈哈，我又骗过他们了”：我知道自己不属于这里，但也非常高兴自己又一次巧妙地让你们相信我属于这里。
I, a man you might very well know as a tiktoker, a man who recently blind-ranked AI company logos by how much they look like buttholes, have snuck into giving MIT’s Commencement speech. And I can admit this because you can’t kick me off now, I’ve already started speaking! It would be weird if you stopped … but still, I’m going to try to do a good job. 我，一个你们可能认识的短视频创作者，一个最近还盲排人工智能公司标志、按它们有多像屁股眼儿来打分的人，居然混进来在麻省理工学院毕业典礼上演讲。我敢承认，因为你们现在已经没法把我赶下台了，我都开始讲话了！如果这时叫停会很奇怪……不过我还是会努力讲好。
Hello and thank you very much to everybody for welcoming me out, all the lovely people up here, the president, the governor, the alumni, Class of 75, and also of course, thank you especially to a class of extremely impressive charismatic and attractive students of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating Class of 2025. 大家好。非常感谢所有人欢迎我来到这里：台上的各位嘉宾、校长、州长、校友、1975届毕业生；当然尤其要感谢麻省理工学院2025届这群格外出色、富有魅力而且英俊漂亮的学生。
To express my thanks: The average human skeleton has more than 25,000 calories. More than half of your bones are in your hands and feet, and all together your skeleton contains enough oxygen atoms that, if you freed them, you could produce around 24 hours of breathable air. 为了表达谢意，我来分享两个事实：普通人的骨骼所含的热量超过两万五千卡。你身体里一半以上的骨头位于手和脚；而整个骨骼所含的氧原子，如果都能释放出来，足够制造大约二十四小时可供呼吸的空气。
Those were some of my best bone facts, and I assume that good bone facts are a totally normal way for humans to show gratitude. 这些都是我最拿手的骨骼知识。我想，分享精彩的骨骼知识，完全是人类表达感激之情的正常方式。
I gave you my very best bone facts because I owe an extra debt of gratitude to you, the Class of 2025, because more than half of you filled out a survey I sent you! I assume you did it late at night while you should have been p-setting, whatever that is, but instead you did this. 我把最好的骨骼知识送给你们，是因为我还特别欠2025届的各位一声谢谢：你们中超过一半的人填写了我发来的问卷！我猜你们本该在深夜做习题集——不管那究竟是什么——却转而做了这件事。
And I have loved looking through your responses and learning a little bit about you, and a little bit from you. 我非常喜欢阅读你们的回答，从中了解了你们一点，也从你们身上学到了一点东西。
One of the things asked you what the most MIT thing you did at MIT was, and this was my favorite section to read. 其中一个问题是：在麻省理工学院期间，你做过的最有“麻省理工味儿”的事是什么？这一部分是我最喜欢读的。
Some of it was definitely not meant for me to understand, like several of you counted up all the smoots on the Harvard Bridge. 有些回答显然不是为了让我看懂的。比如，你们好几个人数过哈佛大桥上所有的“斯穆特”刻度。
Whatever that means … good work. 虽然我不知道那是什么意思……但干得漂亮。
One of you was Tim the Beaver. Another tried to impress a date with train facts. 你们当中有一位当过“海狸蒂姆”。还有一位试图靠火车知识给约会对象留下深刻印象。
I see you. Same … but with bones. 我懂你。俺也一样……只不过我讲的是骨头。
A lot, and I mean a lot of you simply said the word “hack,” and the lack of specificity there, I have to say, does make me feel like whatever you did, the statute of limitations has not yet kicked in. 很多人——我是说真的很多人——只回答了一个词：“黑客行动”。你们说得这么含糊，我不得不怀疑，不管你们做了什么，诉讼时效大概还没过。
But by far the most common beginning of a sentence in this section was “I built…” You built robots and bridges and incubators and startups and Geiger counters and a remote-controlled shopping cart and a ukelele and an eight-foot-wide periodic table. Y’all built … a lot. 但这一部分里最常见的开头，远远超过其他回答的，是“我造了……”。你们造了机器人、桥梁、孵化器、初创公司、盖革计数器、遥控购物车、尤克里里琴，还有一张宽八英尺的元素周期表。你们真的造了……很多东西。
And that is something I found reassuring. We are going to need to do a lot of building. 这让我感到安心。因为我们还需要建造许多东西。
I took a look at your shoes as you were coming, but it turns out I didn’t need to see them to know I wouldn’t want to be in them. 刚才你们进场时，我看了看你们的鞋。不过后来发现，根本不用看鞋，我也知道自己不想处在你们现在的处境里。
I think the only people jealous of you right now is the Class of 2026 because I’m sure things will be even more screwed up by the time they’re sitting where you are. But what a terribly messy time to be graduating from college. The attacks on speech, on science, on higher education, on trans rights, on the federal workforce, on the rule of law … they’re coming from inside the house. 我想此刻唯一嫉妒你们的，大概是2026届学生，因为等他们坐到你们的位置时，事情肯定会变得更乱。但眼下从大学毕业，已经是一个糟糕而混乱的时刻了。对言论、科学、高等教育、跨性别者权利、联邦公务员队伍和法治的攻击……都来自我们自己内部。
Meanwhile, the world is getting hotter faster. And the sudden acceleration in the abilities of artificial intelligence, communication, and biotechnology promise huge opportunities, and massive disruption. 与此同时，世界升温的速度越来越快。人工智能、通信和生物技术的能力突然加速发展，既预示着巨大的机遇，也会带来巨大的冲击。
So, if I were you, I would want some advice! But as previously mentioned, I am a TikTok-er who will now forever be known as the first person to ever say the word “butthole” during an MIT commencement speech. So the advice — some of it — is going to come from you. I asked you, in my survey, what you would say to your classmates from a stage like the one I am now on. And here’s a selection. 所以，如果我是你们，我一定想听些建议！但就像前面说的，我只是个短视频创作者，从此还会以“第一个在麻省理工学院毕业典礼演讲中说出‘屁股眼儿’的人”而闻名。因此，有些建议将来自你们自己。在问卷里，我问你们：如果站在我现在站的这个台上，你想对同班同学说什么？下面选几条来分享。
One of your classmates wrote: 你们的一位同学写道：
I always forget which Green brother is Hank and which is John! 我总是分不清格林兄弟里谁是汉克、谁是约翰！
There is no one definition of success. The idea you have in your head of what success is, it’s going to change, and you should let it. 成功并没有唯一的定义。你脑海中对成功的想象会改变，而你应当允许它改变。
Is one of your classmates 45 years old? 你们班里难道有一位四十五岁的同学吗？
And here’s another 45-year-old hiding among you: 你们中间还藏着另一位四十五岁的人：
Open a Roth IRA. 开设一个罗斯个人退休账户。
Jeez! Did your dad fill out my survey for you? Seriously though, you should. 天哪！是你爸爸替你填的问卷吗？不过说真的，你们确实应该开一个。
Here’s one of my real favorites: 下面是我真正最喜欢的建议之一：
Collaborate and help each other, be brave in reaching out, and be forgiving in your interactions. 彼此合作、彼此帮助；勇敢地向人求助，与人相处时多一些宽容。
Even if it probably won't work, try anyway. 即使很可能不成功，也要试一试。
Don’t start with the solution, start with the problem. 不要从解决方案开始，要从问题开始。
Now a lot of you might be thinking right now: Did he just make us write his Commencement speech for him? And the answer to that is, well, at least you know that Claude didn’t write it. 现在你们很多人可能在想：他刚刚是不是让我们替他写毕业演讲？这个问题的答案嘛……至少你们知道，这篇演讲不是 Claude 写的。
I’ve had a good time here focusing on the ludicrous aspects of my career, and I do want to emphasize its ludicriousness. 我一直很享受拿自己职业生涯中荒唐的一面开玩笑，而且我确实想强调，它真的很荒唐。
I’ve done TikTok dances to Elmo remixes, and I’ve also published two best-selling science fiction novels. I’ve written fart listicles, and I’ve interviewed presidents. I’ve made multiple videos about giraffe sex, and I’ve sold multiple companies. I helped build an educational media company that provides videos for free to everyone with an internet connection, and our content is used in most American schools. 我为艾摩的混音歌曲跳过短视频舞，也出版过两本畅销科幻小说。我写过关于放屁的趣味清单文章，也采访过总统。我拍过不止一个关于长颈鹿交配的视频，也卖掉过不止一家公司。我参与建立了一家教育媒体公司，向每个能上网的人免费提供视频；我们的内容被美国大多数学校使用。
And yes, that was the section I put in so your parents could feel better about me being here. I left it as long as I could. 没错，上面这一段是我特意加进去，好让你们的父母觉得我站在这里还算靠谱。我已经尽量把它往后放了。
I am good at having an idea I believe in and then just doing it, consequences be damned, and that has served me well, though it has not always been relaxing. 我擅长先相信一个想法，然后不顾后果地动手去做。这让我受益良多，尽管过程并不总是轻松。
And I did that all on the uncertain and rapidly changing ground of online video and social media over the last 20 years. So perhaps I do have something to say to a class of graduates heading out into an uncertain and unstable world. 过去二十年，我在网络视频和社交媒体这片不确定、变化飞快的土地上，就是这样一路走来的。所以，面对即将走进不确定而不稳定世界的毕业生，也许我确实有些话可说。
If I could attribute my success, whatever it is, to anything besides luck, it’s that I literally can’t stop believing that there is any better use of time than learning something new. 如果说我的成功——无论它算什么——除了运气还可以归因于别的东西，那就是我真的无法停止相信：没有什么比学习新事物更值得花时间。
And curiosity doesn’t just expand the number of tools you have and how well you’re able to use them, it expands your understanding of the problem space. 好奇心不仅会增加你拥有的工具数量、提高你使用工具的能力，还会拓展你对问题领域的理解。
And so maybe the advice is very simple. Just be curious about the world and you’ll have everything you need for the future and, look, it is almost that simple. 所以也许建议非常简单：只要对世界保持好奇，你就拥有面对未来所需的一切。而且，你们看，事情几乎就是这么简单。
There’s a really important question I asked y’all in my survey that I haven’t mentioned yet. I asked, “What’s giving you hope?” 我在问卷里还问了大家一个非常重要的问题，之前一直没提：“是什么给了你希望？”
And though one of you wrote “Macallan 12,” most of you, in your response, talked entirely about people: my friends, my family, my peers, over and over. 虽然有人写的是“麦卡伦十二年威士忌”，但你们大多数人的回答完全围绕着人：我的朋友、我的家人、我的同伴，一遍又一遍。
People who care. People who focus on improving life in their communities. People who are standing up for what they believe in. People who see big problems and have the determination to fix them. 那些关心他人的人。那些专注于改善社区生活的人。那些挺身而出捍卫自身信念的人。那些看见重大问题，并下定决心解决它们的人。
At a school like MIT, I imagine that the focus can definitely be on the building and less on the people. This is an institute of technology, not of humanities. But I read the humanity in your answers. 在麻省理工学院这样的学校，我能想象大家很容易更关注建造，而较少关注人。毕竟这是理工学院，不是人文学院。但我从你们的回答里读到了人性关怀。
And this brings me back to the simplicity of curiosity leading you both toward understanding problems and acquiring new tools. Because your curiosity is not out of your control. You decide how you orient it, and that orientation is going to affect the entire rest of your life. It may be the single most important factor in your career. 这又让我回到一个看似简单的道理：好奇心既会引导你理解问题，也会帮助你获得新工具。因为你的好奇心并非不受自己控制。你可以决定它指向哪里；这个方向会影响你此后整个人生，甚至可能是你职业生涯中最重要的因素。
And my guess is that it’s going to be really easy to be focused on the problem of just building ever more powerful tools. That’s exciting stuff and also it can be surprisingly uncomplicated. But even though the problem space is much bigger than just “build bigger tools,” it is surprisingly easy to simply never notice that. 我猜，只专注于造出越来越强大的工具，会是一件很容易发生的事。这很令人兴奋，也可能出奇地简单。可是，尽管问题领域远不止“造更大的工具”，人却很容易始终没有注意到这一点。
The most powerful mechanisms that steer our focus are … I’m just going to say this … not always designed for our best interests, or the best interests of our world. Social content platforms are great at steering our curiosities and they are, often, designed to make us afraid, to keep us oriented toward impossible problems, or toward the hottest rifts in society. 那些最能左右我们注意力的机制……我就直说吧……并不总是为了我们或这个世界的最大利益而设计。社交内容平台很擅长引导我们的好奇心，而它们往往被设计得让我们感到害怕，让我们始终盯着不可能解决的问题，或社会中最炽热的裂痕。
Meanwhile, the capitalist impulse is very good at keeping us oriented toward the problems that can be most easily monetized, and that means an over-weighting toward the problems that the most powerful and wealthy people are interested in solving. 与此同时，资本主义的驱动力很擅长让我们把注意力放在最容易赚钱的问题上。这意味着，我们会过度看重最有权势、最富裕的人想要解决的问题。
If we let ourselves be oriented only by those forces, guess what problems we will not pay any attention to. All of the everyday solvable problems of normal people. 如果只让这些力量来决定我们的方向，猜猜哪些问题会被我们完全忽视？普通人在日常生活中那些本来可以解决的问题。
I desperately hope that you remain curious about our world’s intensely diverse and massive problem space. Solveable problems! That are not being addressed because our world does not orient us toward them. If you can control your obsessions, you will not just be unstoppable, you will leave this world a much better place than you found it. 我由衷希望你们继续对这个世界庞大而多样的问题领域保持好奇。那些可以解决的问题！它们之所以无人处理，只是因为我们的世界没有引导我们去关注它们。如果你能掌控自己执着于什么，你不仅会势不可挡，也会让这个世界比你发现它时更加美好。
This is not about choosing between financial stability and your ideals. No. There is money to be made in these spaces. This is simply about who you include in your problem space, about what you choose to be curious about. 这并不是要你在经济稳定与理想之间二选一。不。在这些领域也有赚钱的机会。这只关乎你把谁纳入自己关注的问题范围，关乎你选择对什么保持好奇。
So with that in mind, here’s my advice, from my heart and from my experience. 带着这些想法，下面是我发自内心、来自亲身经验的建议。
First, don’t eat grass. 第一，不要吃草。
Second, more importantly, one of the problems you will solve is how to find joy in an imperfect world. And you might struggle with not feeling productive unless and until you accept that your own joy can be one of the things you produce. 第二，也更重要的是，你需要解决的一个问题，是如何在不完美的世界里找到快乐。你可能会苦于觉得自己不够有成效，直到你接受：自己的快乐也可以是你创造出来的成果之一。
Third, ideas do not belong in your head. They can’t help anyone in there. I sometimes see people become addicted to their good idea. They love it so much, they can’t bring themselves to expose it to the imperfection of reality. Stop waiting. Get the ideas out. You may fail, but while you fail, you will build new tools. 第三，想法不该只留在你的脑袋里。待在那里，它帮不了任何人。我有时看见人们对自己的好点子着了迷。他们太爱那个点子，以至于舍不得让它面对不完美的现实。别再等待。把想法拿出来。你可能会失败，但在失败的过程中，你会造出新的工具。
And fourth, because people are so complex and messy, some of you may be tempted to build around them and not for them. But remember to ask yourself where value and meaning come from, because they don’t come from banks or tech or cap tables. They come from people. 第四，因为人如此复杂而麻烦，有些人可能会想绕开人去建造，而不是为人建造。但请记得问自己，价值与意义从何而来；它们不是来自银行、技术或股权结构表，而是来自人。
People things are the hardest work, but also often the most important work. Orient yourself not just toward the construction and acquisition of new tools, but to the needs of people, and that include you, it includes your friends and your family. I think we can sometimes feel so powerful and like the world is so big that throwing a birthday party or making a playlist for a friend can seem too insignificant when placed against the enormity of AI and climate change and the erosion of democracy. 与人有关的事最难做，但也往往最重要。不要只把目光投向建造和获取新工具，也要关注人的需要；这里的人包括你自己、你的朋友和家人。我想，我们有时会觉得自己如此有力量，而世界又如此之大，于是和人工智能、气候变化、民主制度遭侵蚀这些巨大问题相比，为朋友办一场生日派对、替朋友做一份歌单，似乎微不足道。
But those thoughts alienate you from the reality of human existence, from your place as a builder not just of tools, but of meaning. And that’s not just about impact and productivity and problem solving, it is about living a life. 但这样的想法会让你远离人类生活的真实，也让你忘记自己不只是工具的建造者，还是意义的创造者。而这不仅关乎影响力、生产力和解决问题，也关乎好好过一生。
Do. Not. Forget. how special and bizarre it is to get to live a human life. It took 3 billion years for the Earth to go from single-celled life forms to you. That’s more than a quarter of the life of the entire universe. Something very special and strange is happening on this planet and it is you. 千万、千万不要忘记，能够拥有人的生命，是一件多么特别、又多么不可思议的事。地球从单细胞生命演化到你，花了三十亿年。这超过了整个宇宙寿命的四分之一。在这颗星球上正发生着某种非常特别而奇妙的事，那就是你。
The greatest thing you build in your life will be yourself, and trust me on this you are not done yet, I know I’m not. But what you will be building is not just a toolkit. You will be building a person, and you will be doing it for people. 你一生中建造的最伟大的东西会是你自己。相信我，你还远远没有完成；我知道我自己也没有。但你要建造的不只是一套工具，你要塑造的是一个人，而且你这样做是为了其他人。
When I asked you what you did at MIT, you said you built, but when I asked you what was giving you hope, you did not say “buildings” you said “people.” So, to the graduating Class of 2025, go forth, for yourself, for others, and for this beautiful, bizarre world. 当我问你们在麻省理工学院做了什么，你们说自己建造了东西；但当我问是什么给了你们希望，你们说的不是“建筑”，而是“人”。所以，2025届毕业生，出发吧——为了自己，为了他人，也为了这个美丽而奇妙的世界。
Thank you. 谢谢大家。