Comments by "Pete Venuti" (@petevenuti7355) on "David Kipping: Alien Civilizations and Habitable Worlds | Lex Fridman Podcast #355" video.

@owen.simpson52 I've been a prodigy and a garbage head, I've had a million Dollars and then 60,000 in debt living out of my car, all before I was 25. Your whole life can change your heartbeat and you can rebuild yourself in any way you want. In my thirties I had my kids and those became my primary focus. But they grew up in left and are self-supporting. Now I'm just bored and looking for something new.
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Richard Feynman was still alive about the time you could have you got a driver's license., maybe you could have done an impromptu visit? I used to sneak into the Brookhaven national Labs on Long Island and have a rolling rock with various scientists to have conversations like this, before 9/11 at least.
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@patbobsquidpants3159 misinformation and manipulation is still an issue, bigger now, if in no other way than just through sheer quantity. There was a lot of things that I was taught wrong in high school and University, some of it by teachers that didn't want to admit they didn't know the answers to my questions and just made up something. Sometimes something I did believe for decades and that even on occasion sent me down the wrong path because I thought I could trust a teacher. Now we have AI to do the same, at least with AI we consciously know we shouldn't trust them. Lack of trust causes its own problems. One thing that was better though, more reliance on paper books, even though paper is just as likely to contain inaccuracy or deception one couldn't be as easily gaslighted by simply changing a website, a book was more consistent. Once printed and in your possession it couldn't be reprinted without making a new copy. But yes, where I used to have to wait 3 months for something to come in through the intralibrary loan system from the University, now it's a relatively easy to obtain PDF from the internet Where before you had the scan hundreds of pages of indexes it's not the actual books themselves to find one bit of information in one paragraph in the entire 500 section of science, now you can do a keyword search narrowing it down to a few pages of results. So yes there's a lot more easily available information, but it's also easier to get gaslighted and easier to get information overload from the misinformation, that's harder to tell from the real.
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