Comments by "Kristopher Driver" (@paxdriver) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

  1. "The shovel is a pragmatic truth" lol Lex you're awesome dude
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  2. Letting the guest answer is fully lacking everywhere else in the world. Look at political debates especially, time frames so shirt the only fit the politician's buzzword intros like thanking for the question and boasting something they've said somewhere else. Then there's 25 secs to answer a question about "the economy", as if a definition could even fit in that timeframe let alone a thought out response.
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  3. My bias is much closer to destiny, but I'm not a fan of either unilaterally. That said, this is precisely the kind of conversation and style I absolute love listening to because it makes me think and feel at the same time. This one of my favourite episodes even though it aggregates me tremendously listening to them lol. This is important, please do more of this, you both did very well articulating and keeping pace. Ben often tries to inundate opposition with uzi fire like Jim Jordan school of pseudo rhetoric. Destiny made him actually argue coherently by challenging him on the same level, and Lex kept things from getting too scattered without getting in the way. This is a fantastic conversation. Thank you all.
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  4. Lee smolin is the bomb!
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  5. I can't believe this guy is an adult... Blows my mind. Lex, I listen to every single one of your podcasts, I can't even bring myself to finish this one. He has nothing coherent to say about anything, it's like watching a preschool class listening to this guy compare himself to George Floyd and God's brightest, or thinking Maslow's pyramid as an income hierarchy instead of human needs. He's just so shallow and empty in everything he says.
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  6. Please do another episode with Wolfram very soon! Can't get enough.
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  7. At 1:35:00 the guest says Marxism should provide a critique of capitalism which suggests how to increase access to the market and participate in property market but Marxism is bollocks... But that's exactly what Marx spoke of. He spoke of profit sharing and limiting corporate power over people. It was literally all of the things he claims is absurd about the Marxists who "don't know what they're talking about" lol. Little bit ironic. Also Venuzuela and Cuba failed because of exogenous threats just as much as internal corruption did, and corruption is still rotting us from the inside out. The arguments against are just as vapid as the arguments for, without acknowledging that fact he's not keeping with his own advice about us all being "more scientific about history" as he earlier criticized critical race theory and gay studies fields. It seems wildly hypocritical to me to promote a sensible process and reading 900 page books on Stalin and Hitler but claiming he knows Marxism without spending a day reading Marx. No problem for a person to not understand something, but for him to pretend on record that he knows better is patently fabricated. The things he says Marx should've wrote about Marx did indeed write a lot about. Great episode Lex, really enjoyed this discussion for the most part.
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  8. I can't believe this is the mind of an adult... So, so, so crazy. TKO Without hardly needing to speak at all for 3 hours.
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  9. Why did the chicken cross the road in Miami??
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  10. Awww yess!! I love listening to this guy!
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  11. 7th!
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  12. My first experience with chatgpt was me arguing with its responses on Buddhist philosophy. It is very, very good at helping people learn to think. For example: I argued "isn't it contrary to the premise of abandoning desire and embracing the impermanence of the world for a Buddhist monk to repair and maintain a Buddhist temple?" Chatgpt will give some really fun arguments to complex philosophical paradoxes if you're clever enough to probe it at the edges deliberately. It will always take human education to get the most out of gpt because it only responds. It is creative, but only to training and responses. There's no impetus or personal drive to gpt, and that is its limitation. Absent critical thinking, the model of human cogs in a company, the majority of the workforce, they are replaceable by gpt and that only scares me because I'm not sure that everyone is willing or able to be more contemplative than a chatbot. They just don't all have the same internal monologue as academics who just enjoy the science of learning as opposed to academics who chase prestige and paychecks. University should never have become this jobs training in the firs place, so if nothing else universities in an AI world will just revert back to their original function of pursuit of thought with the option to work a job with the knowledge acquired afterwards; but the primary function for schooling is learning, not job training. It's the job training pushing people into it for career and money that leads to all of this wokeism imho. Only people who don't want to be there are afraid if ideas they disagree with. Only people who shouldn't be there would even want (never mind demand) censorship on campus.
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  13. When a person steps on your toe you try to keep calm, but when a drunk driver hits your dog you scream curses an nobody wonders why. For some reason, though, you seem to act like Donald Trump is just a subjective preference despite mountains of evidence too ridiculous in volume and scope to have even made credible Hollywood sensationalism. You absolutely need to look into things when you research, at least 5 minutes. Please, if you're going to ask a challenging question have a rebuttal ready because nothing he said is new here. Verifiable things can be anticipated, checked, and followed up with a sincere question. Not a gotcha, just a common sense question: He fired the FBI director investigating him and admitted he did it for a reason which was illegal. Legally liable and confessed to sexual assault. He refused an election and didn't stop the certification of election results. Filed over a dozen lie lawsuits about elections, they had to admit in court that they had no evidence to bring to the judges after lying to the courts about the filing and the evidence. We saw him intimidate a witness live in public. We heard him call a Governor to defraud voters. We heard him extort a NATO ally for political gain using aide funds for the "stick" he giggled about with you. Clinton messed up with a mail server after serving 8 years as first lady and decades as a senator before secretary of state in the Whitehouse. She wasn't laughed at by the whole world at summit meetings. She didn't defend Putin's invasion of neighbours. Trump said he'd put up a wall and even took money for it which just went missing in another fraud, so any border crisis left for Biden which he admits he campaigned on and beat Hilary because of (in his own admission during this interview), his wall was never built or it was built but never worked? We paid for it though, despite him also promising that wouldn't happen. How does any sane pers legit believe they are being rational by comparing Biden or Harris with Trump as if it's the same as comparing two normal people? You say he makes great deals, why are there no examples of this? Why can't he write essays or speak eloquently about specifics if that were true? Why do you act like it's totally normal for a person to be like Trump but still you can't imagine how someone might get frustrated by you acting high and mighty about being more tolerant or less divisive or less hyperbolic when the botanist is confusing the pot and the toilet? It's not about taking sides or being in a flame war or trolling or whatever, it's very literally obvious to anyone who thinks about it. It seems to the rest of the world you can't even be bothered to pretend to look something up 2 hrs before a show you're claiming on camera you did "research" for and "prepared"... I'm sorry, with all due respect, it is mind boggling how little we value critical thinking, even on a show founded on the want and appreciation for learning, we never learned elementary level critical thinking comparing one thing to another, or at least having a follow up question you already know the answers to. For eg, he thinks it's wrong Kamala got selected over Biden at the convention. Easy follow up "that's how the system's rules are set, you could've changed your nominee before the convention too." Or how about: "why does it matter to you, it's not your party." since when has it ever been to a campaign's advantage to switch nominees without needing to? Is that some kind of strategy that we ought follow or is name recognition for a returning candidate still the prevailing poli-sci? He's smart right? Why can't he quote a book, or exsin a theory? He's a businessman, right? So either he knew nothing about his own fraud accounting or he himself can't count, either way, I've never heard of a good business man who lies to judges or runs real estate development but confuses his own home floor space by orders of magnitude. Just make an effort, man. You could have just watched one person's YouTube video for one hour and come up with better questions and at least follow up with the absolute smallest amount of effort. I have so much respect for you and how you run your show over the years; I've had a hundred plus hours of enjoyment from your content, please do keep at it because so much of what you do is so so good, but I'd be betraying you not to call out this woeful indignity to the channel. This has been as poor as JBP with Netanyahu, and I'm a lover not a hater. Real talk is real talk. I'm not some PhD wagging a finger either, I do React web dev, study AI in my spare time projects, highschool grad from public school. I've done 50+ hrs of my own podcast long form content and I did the rendering, marketing, prep and hosting of the thing too so I'm not some "elitist" turning his nose up at you for not knowing what I know. I'm giving you heck because someone in your industry, with at least some of the same exposures, with zero benefit of higher education, a date with a former president intended for broadcasting, nor a team to help, even I could tell you with my thumbs off the top of my head where to go to spend 20 minutes preparing that would have saved you the length of this pointless infomercial. I had to each the whole thing at 1.5x for the first time in over 10 years on YouTube just to carry the beginning of a sentence to the end of it. How does a person say "that would be very bad" and the interviewer just assume "bad" means something about anything? How is it ok that Trump knows how to save the lives of Russian and Ukrainian soldiers but chooses not to end the war just because he wants to win an election? Where's your heart, all of a sudden that type of depravity doesn't so much as make you flinch??? Since when is the caring Lex who preaches love and truth silent about enabling mass murder, especially given what your grandfather went through. This is just absolutely unbelievable coming from this channel, I really hope you all get your act together because this right here was shameful, man. Peace, love and respect, for real. Please smarten up though. If I meant this comment to be mean rather than constructive I would've just said "it was bad, very very bad" like your guest and I know nobody would even question it. You'd all just believe it if I repeated it often enough... I'm writing all this because I believe in you, not because I get my rocks off hating on strangers on the internet. My track record on here, twitter, podcast and published books/music over the past 10 years will vouched for me there <-- "evidence supporting a subject e claim"... <-- me showing you how it's done by example by way of a serious lack of charm lol It's in you to be so much better than this.
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  14. If the income gap is widening and consumer debt is exploding, to say lending stimulates the economy is literally equivalent to saying rich people deserve to spend more with less cost, and thus earn more with less productivity, while also paying less in taxes and labour for the privilege. Sometimes things aren't opinions they're logically relative.
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  15. 1:13:25 Michael Malice cuts Lex's cake face off lol Man, what a great episode this is. Thank you.
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  16. 1:44:56 don't forget Jeff sessions, and bill Barr, and mark meadows's intern who testified, and FBI chair Jim Comey? ... The list of people Trump extorted with his positions if authority range from sexual assault (which à judge agreed with, btw, not slander), all the way to fraud and abetting insurrection. The perfect call quid pro quo, the Georgia call, the private Putin meetings and Kim Jun ung love letters? The bathroom to secret files, the tax fraud, the non-payment to contractors, lawyers and fixes - which part of this wouldn't worry a competent and informed voter? You'll sacrifice your life to defend the national core values of democracy and commerce, but extortion by the commander in chief doesn't even phase you, Ben? That kind if incoherence is way beneath him but he's doubling down on an embarrassing narrative he knows full well is bs. He's either ignorant, dumb or corrupted. There isn't a subjective way to read the facts in this case, it's not at all nebulous.
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  17. Lol the Ralph nadar episode 😜 If you have reservations about Fauci, and willing to say so about him on air, you owe it to him as a person to have a conversation about it with him. You did it for Zuck, Fauci is way more human than Zuckerberg
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  18. Anti-zionism is about the denial of illegal occupation and blockading vital necessities. Anti-Semitism is about racial / religious prejudice. To conflate the two as an educated person is irrefutably disingenuous.
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  19. Fact checking Bibi's braggery: "Two weeks after the Israeli government boasted of landing the largest-ever international investment for the country, US chipmaker Intel Corp. still declines to confirm the “specific details of the project” for now." - The Times of Israel
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  20. With love and respect, you need to stop interviewing world leaders. You really don't even challenge anyone, it's just a cheap infomercial. I'm not just some random, I've watched every interview. With respect, you are really bad at political and/or economic conversations when you interview propagandists. Objectively wrong math is poor content no matter how you feel about relating to the other side. If someone is incoherent and hurting millions of people, there needs to be a red line with all due respect.
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  21. At 2:25:00 re: boxes of time - there are literally physical boxes of time. Every box of space is also a box of time. The density of time in that box is precisely relative to the mass contained in the box. It's our experience of time that's confusing, not the material property of time.
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  22. Brilliant start to this episode Lex, taking ridiculous ideas seriously to prevent calamity of faith. Still taking pot belly shots at Kim Jun Un to drive the point home with some subtle humour lol. Absolutely, positively Buddhist man, very well done, like a zen master would.
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  23. If you asked your followers for help with illness they absolutely would help in droves. If you let people help you they absolutely would, Lex.
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  24. 59:52 "you have some bad people out there, I worked in prison reform...", coming from a dude who supported overthrowing an election. Evil people can be soft-spoken, self righteous and completely ignorant. Evil people sometimes don't even know they're evil... It sounds like he grew up in a Prager U boarding school lol proudly talking about having dinner with Lindsay Graham, Steven Miller and Trump and end on "listening and respecting people". "The facts continue to change".. No Jared, they don't. Words have meanings. That's not wisdom Lex. That's not humility or understanding of details. It's pitifully inept imho.
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  25. THIS!!!
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  26. The most reasonable explanation for the functional benefit to religion in the pursuit of wisdom is the time dedicated to existential thought through routine, ritual tradition and communion. The benefits of this steady practise are mildly offset by the rigorous memorization of dogmatic textualisms, but once memorized they serve as meditations when practised. Discipline and making time and leveraging our group to encourage more introspection which is simply not easy for most people to self direct without a religious fervour. Relions are functional in their promotion of making routine of reflexive diligent consideration which most people don't do on their own. Hard things take motivation; our feelings are great motivations; make love and death myths to encourage introspective rituals and you wind up with religious stories which all read like echoes of one another anyway. If it helps make us more appreciative of philosophy and living better lives on aggregate then it's useful to us all, whether we believe or share the doctrines or not. Even if the texts are all wrong, if they bring a person closer to wisdom than without, then the religious texts have truly made the person transcend their capacity and are thus at least partially true to their raison d'être. It's another one of those recursive arguments - if the bs text makes a person motivated to think more about harder, more important questions, then they served the their stated functions and proved themselves to be inspired by a higher power lol
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  27. This guy doesn't grasp time very well. Even 100 yrs in evolutionary terms is a quick mutation, viruses do that though. They mutate often and quickly. They don't "try" to survive they, aren't alive, just tumbling molecules and entropy (aka time). To go from trackable SARS to well adapted SARS in 15 years time is very reasonable by the data & stats.
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  28. Honestly, the biggest and only use case for this product is to help people like the late Stephen Hawking speak and make presentations if AI could interpret him live from his wheelchair. Synthesize expression, facial muscles, age, voice, and composite sentences based on his past writing and active inputs even if it's only a blink. The most we could get from this is enabling the disabled - which is huge, dont Get me wrong. But it's not even going to come close to breaking even seeing as how we disabled people aren't generally the richest or most productive to have barter chips to trade for the cost of developing this product. It's a really neat toy, a really niche tool, but the demand won't be able to afford it for its best use cases and the wealthy who can afford will get bored of it almost immediately because they just don't need or want to use it for anything.
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  29. This is the Namek version of the podcast - when Frieza and Goku finally show us their final forms, facing off as the planet implodes in the background... Boom!
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  30. I think the minsky model of agi would work well combining other independently trained models if each communication between models also linked their responses with custom weights and biases to apply towards their responses by the main controller. Just like in a society I can ask my neighbour how to fix my car if I don't quite know for sure, but knowing a mechanic supercedes us both by reason of expertise without excluding either of us from offering uninformed insight just in case the controller wants more opinions would be a social minsky model of agi. The main controller wouldn't be a dictator, it would symbolically link concept tasks to combinations of brain-region-like specialist models kind of like how we use visual metaphors in speech to convey concepts like this comment does to leverage several trained models to help communicate a complex idea succinctly by abstract patterns of historical references. Networks of networks is for sure the future of ml, my research aims to prove its efficacy after all so full disclosure on my bias lol
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  31. 1:37:15 there is a deeper wisdom to the collective intelligence, as Lex says, but the internet is not a representative sample of the collective wisdom. The PhD and the idiots are both over represented by their publications and social media posts, but the common wisdom people share but don't publish are not proportionately incorporated into the training data. The risk of relying on gpt (not making freely available for general use, I'm saying rely on) is that there's no way for us to measure the quality of the human race's representation in the training set. The other issue that Wolfram misses on this same point is that we don't know how heavily the "average of the internet" is tokenized literally and how much is tokenized symbolically in its generative process, now or in future iterations. If tokens are deeply metaphysical and only superficially trained on tone, language) vocabulary and logic by the literal tokens then there's no reason gpt can't produce or prescribe new goals which we haven't considered consciously but which we're all working towards by cosmic evolutionary progression which we're still ignorant of but working toward (ie "God's plan", in another interpretation). Math has always been deeply linked to philosophy and art, I think we'd be wise to keep as wide a perspective of its potential influences because there are certainly facets of its application which we're overlooking in ignorance. That's why human play and prod, we discover deeper truths that way because our minds are wedged open to novel interpretations of the sandbox we play in.
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  32. Lee is always a good conversation, but he strikes me as a narcissist. As an academic biochemist who's publishing theories on the nature of emergence in the universe, how has not so much as stumbled across the specifics of carbon dating and radioactive decay? It takes a weekend to understand that, I'm a public highschool grad and I produced a podcast describing nuclear power generation in a week... It's like he thinks what he already knows is good enough. Like how he decided what was important in his own theory before knowing why then found a reason to confirm his priors. I'm one of his critics on twitter, and when I brought up how assembly theory was precisely in line with Karl Friston's work on free energy and Stephen Wolfram's rulead for cellular automata he didn't even bother to listen or look it up (both of which can be found in Lex's podcast history btw). He's interesting but he's not a scientist. He's just a guy who wants to look smart, dismissing critics as saying his theory is rubbish without ever even listening. I hate science that invents an idea then looks for excuses to make it apply when others have already done the same thing properly. It's an affront to the practise of intellectual exploration because he works in the same way religious zealots apply the world to suit their doctrines (notice the irony if not hypocrisy?) That said, I like the conversations for the exploration of ideas, but I really hate how his followers are treating his ideas like they're so deep and he only listens to people who boost his ego. There's zero interest for him to expand knowledge, he just wants to be seen as someone who is expanding knowledge for the opti s or status or something. It's a wretched motivation to pursue science imho so I hope people learn to appreciate him for the real contributions he makes in his communication rather than feed his ego without ever exploring even the boundaries of the theories he's copying to call his own.
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  33. Omfg a gobot?!
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  34. The first step to science is logic gates, aliens would have to know binary just as they would have to know sine to space travel. Conditional switches must always exist for useful technology, even quantum computing to a simple cnc machine needs a flip-flop timer or on off switch. Binary has to be a fundamental math. Maybe not base 10, but base 2 absolutely for sure.
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  35. Solidarity brother
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  36.  Pinned by Lex Fridman.  that's the strangest reply I've ever received... "how about no... Scott" lol If you're interested in a conversation contact frivolousgravitas, my podcast. If you're a troll, feel free to troll my podcast. I could use the engagements lol
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  37. "... reality is nuanced and thanks for sharing it that way" Great start Max 🙏 I hope I live to see the day a scientist runs the country for a change. Sense and sensibility would be even more refreshing than a proper podcast
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  38. I sincerely believe there's a good chance chip makers want ai to slow down because Moore's Law and diminishing returns are getting expensive. That's the same tragedy of the Commons, but where the players and pieces are reversed. Competing with other companies leveraging ai is getting too expensive for them all. Nvidia and amd showed in their ways they're not interested in sharing generational price/performance gains anymore, "now you pay for gpu compite linearly". The real reason we should avoid ai is the failing education system. When people are electing Donald Trump and shooting up schools to the point politicians suggest solving these with armed guards, metal detectors, and locking groups of people inside of buildings 5 days a week. A world where people don't read and they're too busy to clean, be a parent, exercise or cook - but who find the time to watch tv for 5 hours a day. Ai in the hands of lazy idiots is the real threat, just as much as in the hands of someone powerful and nefarious imho. Accidents will be magnified at least as much as solves.
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  39. Nothing to comment, just started this episode. I'm so so so happy about the amount of content in this episode though, and for that I wanted to bump it with a comment that says nothing but "thank you Lex"
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  40. Keep mankind vids like this please! If they're easy for you it's still a lot for us normies to chew on.
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  41. You really shouldn't congratulate Zuck for buying up 6,000 a100's when the whole world has been suffering for 2 years of gpu shortages lol just saying.. Research stunted during a pandemic and climate crisis, kids stuck at home without affordable gaming hardware, all because Mark wanted a playground nobody else wants to play in to extort people of more private data to sell to dictators and spy agencies.
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  42. "you need diversity in management and we encourage dissenting opinions and constructive criticisms..." says the guy with controlling shares and refuses to democratize management decisions lol
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  43.  @RJ1J  I just pretend he's autistic or something and try to ignore the superficiality. I stick my hate-on for the undercover way he sells private details like location and sexuality to governments. Regardless of his cadence, he's a sea-hunt imho lol
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  44. The meaning of life is simple AF: to hydrogenated carbon dioxide, obviously 😜
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  45. To me he seemed really defensive. It was annoying how he'd interrupt good arguments he didn't want to hear to be honest. He looked really uncomfortable but kudos to him for having hard conversations for a living when he could be playing with robots and code lol
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  46.  @iBeHampe  you're not listening hard enough 😜
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  47. I suffer from colitis, diabetes, fibromyalgia, etc, etc. You think I want to deprive the world of harmless shock humour just because I'm touchy? Hell no. Context is not just part of it it's most of it. South park laughs at diabetes, it doesn't mock my suffering as a diabetic, it makes me laugh despite being diabetic. What people are confusing these days is feelings and intention. There's malice and there's colour, you can't just decide universally swearing is ok but not that swearing because you feel more strongly, somebody could feel strongly about damn or diarrhea. It's language, if everyone could speak however they want to represent themselves and people could say "hey, I found that offensive" without ever saying "you can't say that" we'd all be better off. If we all learned to put up with the insane things other people say and feel confident in calling them out on it and communicating our disapproval without it being a personal judgment of character over language we'd all be better off. How about a person with a speaking disability where they can't censor themselves as well, not just Tourette's but ADHD, stroke, or brain fog from medications treating other issues. You don't know my linguistic capability at the time I misspoke, so why is it ok to judge a person's poor choice if words for being inconsiderate while not considering the person may have a culturally motivated provocative way if speaking? Maybe it's PTSD or trauma or bipolarity that puts that chip on their shoulder and taints their mood enough to make word choice poor? That's not to say it's ok to say anything, or justify it, but it does speak to the severity of which we react to taboo words. It's not ok to say it but it is also not ok to demand the compelled speech if others. You're causing an equally serious problem in retaliation to a serious problem. You're perpetrating an ignorant slight by trying to knee-jerk back away from someone else's ignorant slight. It's not just hipocrisy it's counter productive in the bigger picture. Don't forget, the internet from the 90's didn't have tracking or persistent usernames, no verification and no moderators. You don't like something you leave, or mute, or rally haters against the abusive person. It was just shock value humour like half of all humour out there from stand-up to family guy and everything in between. Harassment is the joke, crass is what makes it funny. Not everywhere, not at work, but between consenting friends where people voluntarily drop in to watch - why not streaming games, it's not church or a funeral. Context is everything. If history taught us anything it's that our first response is usually an overreaction just like our prejudices are usually under reactions. We should be able to agree on middle ground where we're still allowed and tolerated to be offensive/offended. There are safe rooms and groups and blocking and subscribing all over the place. There's tons of safe places and generally only people engaged are targeted. We should agree that when a person says "hey that hurt" that everybody should pause immediately to show human concern. Then we can say anything if we take pain seriously and tolerate hurtful speech where possible. That would be ideal if both parties try to bend to the other side rather than hoards telling one group what they can or can't say ir do or laugh at in public. We can agree certain places are more sacred, but game streaming is pretty much football and beer, it's degenerate by design and culture and it's consensual. Just like comedy, there's consent and no malice there. People need to chill out imho.
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  48. Imagine having them both debate with an ounce of blow on the table between them lol
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  49. The solve to both the social media feed algorithm and personal privacy concerns with data are one in the same - people's feeds are individually trained for each user, and the user stores and releases that model to the app that makes recommendations voluntarily. We store and curate the algorithms on our devices, with their training formula, and we choose to allow a company access to our models which our devices maintain when we want personal recommendations. We train them, we store them and we release them at will. It really doesn't need to be one model to rule them all with echo chambers of click bait or our cliques of preferred points of view. Companies just don't want to give up that control because they're happy exploiting our data and our attention for profit. Regulation could easily fix all of this.
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  50. It's amazing how completely skewed his logic is. For eg, "strength" he says is paramount for peace... Meanwhile Hamas are showing strength and they got their supporters by Israel and USA strongman politics. Nowhere has strength ever led to peace, it always leads to genocides, wars, or slavery. It's such a stupid thing for a diplomat to say and he repeats it constantly.
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  51.  @stellybrah  true that. Nonsense is still nonsense though. So many of his statements are patently and verifiably false, as I noted in my comment last week. That kind of thing isn't helping anyone understand, it's actually disinforming people bring everyone further away from the full picture if they don't recognize what he's saying is fantasy.
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  52. Wow Jared is stooped... He says out loud Israel is a nuclear power. He thinks his plan would've given a million jobs to Gazans when 1.1mln of 2.2mln people are children. He thinks strength is a peace-making approach to diplomacy, as the first "obvious" important factor for peace. Jared says Saudi government killing an American journalist is somehow better than the actions of renegade terrorists. He thinks pulling money from Palestine and watching it flounder economically while dealing with blockades and a terror label on their government had nothing to do with them being unable to do more business with the aid they received. He thinks sanctions and impoverishing Iranians citizens, who are being killed for protesting their own government btw, he thinks hurting Iranians with sanctions worked and was great for peace. All of this within 40 mins. It's incredible how completely disconnected his thoughts are from material reality which can be quantifiably verified and/or referenced to historical outcomes. It's astonishing how much this man actually believes picking a side in a conflict was a wise path to resolution and then calling it "easy" for him to figure out. Just wow. This boy is unbelievably callous, dense, and narcissistic.
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  53.  @RJ1J  lmao oh man, you should've just skipped ahead 43mins. I listened for 4 minutes if the meta verse preaching and immediately jumped ahead when I started gagging
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  54.  @RJ1J  would've been painful to sit through. Lex really loves his fans to himself through that for the interview we wanted him to host lol
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  55. Truly
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  56. I'm definitely a wolfram groupie lol 👍
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  57. 45:00 "everything is a deep ocean with you people... " "what do you mean 'you people'?" "you pirates" 😂🤣😭 I fell out of bed laughing dude lol brilliant
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  58. I wrote full websites entirely in notepad for 7 years, finally let go and jumped to notepad++ for another 5 years. I only JUST got onto vscode 3 hears ago. Every time I find a new IDE to use as default I'm always glad I did. Even the transitions to sublime, pycharm, emacs etc. It's hilarious how emotional I got every time I moved to a better platform lol you'd think it'd be exciting or relief but it's hella hard to switch environments for some crazy reason.
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  59. Weinstein would absolutely love my album if he appreciates clever self-contradictory subtext.
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  60. Prediction - this crew gets their own Funko pop figurines in their own likeness if/when they publish a major discovery.
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  61. And yet SCOTUS tries so hard to engineer it out of democracy. Roe, chevron, presidential immunity, nepotism, refusing to denounce racism and then not calling off a violent mob who intended to disrupt democratic processes. Blatantly requesting a Governor defraud the voters, the lawsuits about election fraud without any evidence (no fewer than a dozen of them)... There's nothing genuine about these people. This isn't just typical politics, this is entirely different level of radicalism. The Republican party is aiming for Putin/Xi/Un style dictatorship - its not even a secret, they admit it and pursued it proudly then bragged about it. It is so incredibly insane to pretend this is normal political feuding, this isn't about policy at all. War crimes, poverty, embezzlement, epic levels of corruption from within the world's largest economy. The stakes are very high but tyranny is objectively the GOP pursuit, it is clear as day to anyone who spends an hour or two reading and listening. Biden is not trying to fix any of it, he's trying to game it just like everyone else, just with less dire consequence. The best possible result is still not at all good.
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  62. Any theory that so much as mentions the word miracle as an explanation is religion and not science. I loved the discussion but this guy is describing simplicity with complexity without identifying or elucidating on anything tangible. He keeps saying what his theory will eventually unearth, but never describes the path to reason or experiment that gets there. Just that he's hoping to explain miracles somehow with a theory he can't articulate fully lol it's kind of weird he considers his work science and not philosophy (philosophy being another form of science, albeit through abstraction rather than practical matters - pun intended). I think he does more to confuse his audience than enlighten or educate because of his choislce of language and references. Markov kernels for eg doesn't describe the algorithm or process at all. That's like saying "I do complicated math which will explain things because I'm using graph paper instead of ruled sheets"... It's just a process of systematic lambdas over any given domain. It doesn't mean anything by itself but he uses it several times as a description of how he'll arrive at an experiment'result or a proof of some sort but it literally doesn't make sense in the context he uses it. I don't think he even knows what he's talking about when it comes down to the math.
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  63. 30mins - me too... That's my OCD they tell me. But it's productive AF so it's hard to kick it.
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  64. Audio gets really bad like talking into a can at 2:47:00 > *
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  65. 1:04:01 - no Destiny, people will say they support Hamas because their lives have been ruined by oppression, not because they want to actively submit their children to commit and / or succumb to violent murder over politics. No parent wants that for their kids, but all angry humans will say they support the pain of their oppressors. Like you said 5 mins earlier, you can't look at regional political contention through the lens of American comforts. Watching murder from afar is not the same as volunteering your family to condone guerilla warfare in your home neighborhood. That's insane. Go travel and meet people if you believe humans anywhere on earth are cool with their kids going to war. Even when culture demands a warrior spirit and the parents say the right things, that's a coping mechanism for their sorrow. I can't imagine a human who is true to themselves being truly endorsing sending their kids to war and risking their lives, homes, and futures for racism or politics unless they are a minority of mentally disabled adults. Our genes are not wired to sacrifice our families gleefully. It's just not biologically possible for that to be the case so you're both wrong. War is not inevitable or genuinely condoned by the people of Palestine or Israel, it's manipulated, ignorant, racist and/or malevolent politics that make this terrorism-turned-genocide happen. Words have meanings, looks up the definitions.
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  66. 2:40:28 is destiny. Mocking good, medicine, clés water and escape is war crime. Yes Hamas is guilty of war crimes too, they're both not ok.
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  67. 1:29:12 naaailed it! Mic drop minute lol
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  68. 2:02:56 then Ben nails academic accreditation to the floor lol I'll stop spamming the comments now, great great episode, this was awesome. Please do this more often.
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  69. 44:16 Yemen? Jamal Kashoggi? The Afghanistan exit plan was Trump too. Palestinians probably didn't think Israel's occupation was "good". Lebanon collapsed; coups exploded across the sahel, al shabob and bolo haram ran rampant, turkey had a coup and Iran nuclear inspections were scrapped for... No better alternative agreement. We stopped a nuclear non-prolifération agreement for nothing under Trump. 48:16 that "rag tag group of Houthis" landed on a moving craft with a special forces team in a chopper... Ben is really choosey with his citations lol
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  70. This subject describes the ethos of my weekly podcast - demonstrating how to disagree amicably and not being afraid of being caught with an incomplete or bad idea. Discourse these days is sorely lacking in spits of all this connectivity
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  71. Best Sasso character was the handyman on madtv - cutting his fingers off and driving screws through his jaw lol
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  72. I had no idea benzos was so incredibly boring lol I don't think I've ever listened to him in conversation before, only prepared statements. Wow. I just assumed he'd have personality or charisma or something. He's a dial tone.
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