Youtube comments of Sean Fitzgerald (@seanfitzgerald4207).

  1. fascinating discussion. really making me think.....the part where Mohammad said that the idea that this is a thousands year old primarily religious conflict between Muslims and Jews is a distraction from actual issue of property rights and sovereignty
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  2. "machines will always beat humans at closed-system type problems or games. They don't have to solve them, they just have to make fewer mistakes"
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  3. "By the way, philosophy is important. You can't do good language design without philosophy, because what you are determining is what people can express and how."
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  4. 1:23: "I imagine 99% of your thought process is protecting your self-conception, and 98% of that is wrong."
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  5. "What makes the experiencing self happy and what makes the remembering self happy are different things." this is the most profound thing I have heard in some time. another phenomenal podcast, thank you Lex!
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  6. i consider myself independent/libertarian but i am able to recognize and acknowledge that Joe Biden signing the Chips Act is a good thing for our country
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  7. I'm thinking Lee Cronin was really into Lego as a kid : )
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  8. Lex: "Why is poop funny?" damn i love Lex's podcasts never a dull moment
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  9. a big issue i have with the metaverse is that seems like a failure to "read the room" so to speak.....i mean everyone has been virtual and isolated from IRL interactions for 2 plus years now.....is something that keeps us in virtual interaction really what we need now?
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  10. "you have to appreciate all the different ways of being A-players" YES! so true!
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  11. my two favorite podcasters and thinkers finally talking together THIS is what I have most been waiting for!!! thank you both so much for making it happen!
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  12. Wallace: "At this point you're losing" HA HA HA HA HA HA that's they all said 4 years ago too
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  13. this is a struggle to watch but i'm hanging in there (heck i sit through the WH daily press briefings so my BS tolerance has built up quite a bit) edit: could have sub-titled this episode "The Deep State Surfaces"
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  14. the world's best interviewer and the world's best negotiator walk into a podcast....
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  15. 42 minutes in.....suggestion of a bias bounty program to surface ethical issues in AI i like it!
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  16. Wallace is being disingenuous insisting on the absence of the specific WORD "defund" in the Biden/Sanders Unity plan......redirecting funds is functionally the same thing as defunding...it makes our streets less safe
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  17. 25K acres net carbon negative is amazing! imagine if regenerative farming was the norm! wow!
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  18. it would be really interesting to learn the evolutionary utility of phosphine there must be something since despite all its negatives it persists in the universe
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  19. really love what RFK Jr shared about addiction resonates deeply with me
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  20. This occurred to me while listening to Lex and Michael I Jordan go back and forth about recommendation systems: using all past behavior to generate new recommendations is not the best way b/c most interesting things about us may not be in the data of our historical usage/puchases/etc...wanting recommendation systems to get at principals and our values and serving up recommendations that could tap into those (but are not intuitive based on past history alone) we have an analogy in recruiting to this: culture fit vs culture add culture fit generally refers to the degree to which candidates' values/beliefs/principals/etc.. mesh with those of the existing organization whereas culture add is about how do candidates' values/beliefs/mindsets/points of view/life experiences/etc... enhance existing organization in new ways
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  21. LOVE Masih's rebel energy!
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  22. yes! continuously being open to changing our minds is critical to break us out from falling into dogma from habituation
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  23. listening to this conversation instead of Netflix streaming tonight and damn if it is not 1000% more entertaining and engaging
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  24. Lex's thoughts on space junk reminded me of the Strugatky brother's "Roadside Picnic" novel
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  25. Lex is a generational Portal between Eric (GenX) and Zev (GenZ)
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  26. strong point on he makes on Israel treating the founding of Israel as the dawn of creation so to speak in the eyes of the legal system...with no prior land deeds/contracts/titles having any validity
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  27. it's a book about meta politics i'm definitely going to read it!
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  28. fun fact i lived in Mena, Arkansas 2007-2008 there are a lot of stories in that town on what went on at the airport there and private hangars in the 80's
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  29. Great discussion Lex! I truly enjoy these talks you have with your guests a great deal. Michio Kaku is the first person I have encountered who seems to be in a quantum state of comedian and physicist.
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  30. Another phenomenal podcast. Could you get Jamie Dimon or Michael Bloomberg?
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  31. "we rarely talk about robots filling a hole where there's nothing, and what benefit that could provide to people." YES! a robotic best friend unconditionally there for you. Like a journal that listens and talks back to you..
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  32. listening to this podcast really makes me wish I was born 200 or more years from now....those folks could be in for some amazing explorations!
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  33. Thank you so much for this inspiring and fascinating in depth discussion. And Daniel's father sounds like an amazing man
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  34. A potential issue with voting for ideas not for people is that the people who are value aligned with particular ideas during a campaign and voting period may after getting elected either not act in accordance with the ideas upon which voters elected them to office, or their views change and no longer align with those ideas not sure how to solve for this but the concept of issue-based voting is certainly interesting to explore
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  35. there is a particular depth of linguistic understanding required to be good at puns so this makes a lot of sense that good punsters make good ontologists : )
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  36. Thank you Lex!
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  37. Thanks Lex! looking forward to this! you should also have Mike Belshe (Founder and CEO of BitGo) on (they are like the enterprise counterpart to Coinbase (handling 20% of all Bitcoin transaction monthly volume (custody, portfolio mgmt, prime brokerage, settlement, clearing, staking, lending, tax services, along with their core transaction platform supporting 450+ coins/tokens)
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  38. Hedgy's really leaning into it today
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  39. Professor Buchwald looks like Richard Dreyfuss and sounds like Peter Falk (if you don't know him from Columbo you'll know him as a the grandfather/narrator from The Princess Bride) thanks for another great conversation Lex!
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  40. exactly! long form podcast would do the American public a MUCH better service in understanding the candidate's policies and plans and truly make an informed decision
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  41. Lex! don't let the bastards get you down my brother you are on the right track LOVE does WIN in the end
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  42. great insight by Mark regarding Apple Vison Pro building greater category awareness among consumers and then Meta's more reasonably priced Quest 3 being the greater beneficiary of this given the more affordable price point for most people
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  43. fascinating point about the complexity of "centrist" unpacking it to see it includes high rung thinkers doing critical thinking issue by issue where they collectively come out in the center but by no means are they anything like an indecisive fence-sitter who cannot take a side with one of the extremes tribal sides
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  44. Thank you so much Yeonmi for being such a brave and crucial witness. much love and great respect
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  45. LOVE the Public Health Engineering concept! perhaps MIT could initiate a Public Health Engineering Grand Challenge series (ala DARPA) to kick off this exciting and much needed new field?
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  46. Lex and everyone else should definitely catch the JBP, Vervaeke, Pageau discussion it was incredible
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  47. LOVE Jiro: Dreams of Sushi! passion for perfection as multigenerational striving
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  48. yes! i find using my name over and over again in sales or service conversations comes across as formulaic, training-based and not at all genuine and it really rubs me the wrong way, makes me want to say their name back in every sentence too lol
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  49. Another great discussion! Thank you so much Lex!
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  50. Thank you so much for doing this interview and all of your podcasts Lex. Fascinating stuff! Really like the idea of crypto chain-of-custody for essentially verifying content provenance that Kevin Scott and you discuss (around 39 minutes in)
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  51. pushing back on Wolff who says that successful capitalists in the process of becoming successful have shed their care and humanity for improving well being of others i disagree, i think it is increasingly difficult to maintain such humanity but it is not impossible. Also, thinking that everyone will be on board for mass tranport instead of individually operated transportation shows a lack of understanding of American individualism and freedom of movement to own and go with self-agency
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  52. great discussion! thank you so much for this Lex! i have been thinking that reinforcement learning with reward function being curiosity could lead to maximizing innovation and exploring to learn more and more instead of just focused on a fixed outcome that it seeks to maximize ad infinitum.
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  53. Lex, yes if you frame things as comfortable with fields being the building blocks....it rings false.....b/c blocks are particles, if you asked are we comfortable with fields being the building soup of the universe that flows better conceptually without the disconnect ;-)
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  54. listening to the intro my first thought was....Lex, more brisket, less shrooms jk looking forward greatly to this discussion!
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  55. this is one of those truly special and thought-provoking conversations where i really wish there was a SUPER like option
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  56. speaking of fun and Doge the "dog fight" over dueling Dogecoin and Shiba Inu as they trade the larger market cap back and forth is fun
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  57. Manolis's modular disease treatment with specific drugs for each pathway is fucking brilliant and should definitely be the future of pharmaceutical treatment
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  58. "autonomous driving is a human behavior problem; understanding what other drivers are going to do" brilliant! great discussion!
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  59. Yes! Brazil is one of my favorite films ever
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  60. My condolences for your loss of your grandmother. Love
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  61. Welcome to the Artificial Genital Intelligence podcast......
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  62. multi-party keys reminds me of how old school bank safe deposit boxes work
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  63. clever i like it
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  64. yes we no longer need facts on-board so to speak taking up our memory since facts are available on-demand but we very much still require conceptual knowledge and reasoning systems/knowledge systems/ontologies on-board
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  65. robot Lex performs reinforcement learning with a curiosity reward function on himself while Bryan performs machine learning optimization
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  66. just to push back a bit on Niall about Chamberlain not realizing that both UK and Germany would get the time they were buying by delaying things.....if indeed Chamberlain bought Hitler's bluff that Germany was ready right then and there to begin it's military offensive on other countries....then from his point of view German did not require the time but only UK did. Churchhill saw through the bluff so correctly concluded the contrary point of view
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  67. I'd really like to know if Dr. Hart has any film or tv show recommendations that portray drugs without the typical negative biases ("Easy Rider" comes to mind)
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  68. Awesome Lex! you and Michael Malice are two of my favorite thinkers to listen to and explore deep and important topics thank you so much!
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  69. "What can i do to move the needle?" Effective Anarchism love it
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  70. fascinated listening to orgiin story great stuff! i pick up on the idea that the location-sharing apps if you drill down to what they are trying to get at......sharing lived experiences with people in your lives who are not there, then think how can we do that more effectively........you get Instagram it's only after you have an Instagram that we realize apps like foursquare were transition tech (like vhs, cds, dvds before streaming for example) and think about this, Instagram is not the final evolution of what is possible in sharing lived experiences either and in time something else will come along that does it even better ;-)
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  71. hmmm i wonder if the altering the cells back to younger cells reverses the lengthening of telomeres (which causes senescence)
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  72. Agreed! "Great Barrington Declaration" I'd one of those epic names on a par with LA's iconic Jerry's Famous Deli
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  73. stable marriage problem is central to the matching algorithm i need to create for my DeepMatch (candidate/company matching) startup. if anyone listening out there has algorithm development expertise and is interested in potentially working with me on this, please reach out : )
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  74. that micro fluidic bubble logic is fucking amazing wow
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  75. great point Lex about editing out the non-pedalogical bits and ramblings in lectures to get the best most clear and concise pedagogical experience for students
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  76. fascinating to think about the digital twin having shared experiences with special people in our lives that we are not present for and how do we loop ourselves back in to share those experiences so that not only the digital twin is evolving, learning, growing, but we are doing so as well
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  77. if the virus particles themselves are not alive, as Vincent Raceniello claims, i am trying to understand how they behave selectively on a survival instinct or drive
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  78. evolution of deep idea communication: books>>>>>audio books>>>>>>>long form podcasts
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  79. hmmm would masseurs still need certification to give Neuralink massages i wonder
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  80. Really enjoyed Master and his emissary! Look forward to delving into his new work, the matter with things
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  81. powerful intro Lex love you brother
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  82.  @SpongeGod-YawehPants  lol all good, sometimes i don't track humor/sarcasm (why so serious?) i dig tardigrades so learning more about plenaria super powers, fusion just occurred to me
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  83. for those who might not know, SHU is "Single Housing Unit" (solitary cell no cellmate 23 hours in and 1 hour out)
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  84. i'd say a commonality in Lex's audience is that we particularly enjoy delving deep into the meta level on a wide variety of topics as we are curious and driven to expand our cognitive bases : )
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  85. why humans are special in the universe "I wish i was special you're so fucking special, but i'm a creep, i'm a weirdo, what the hell am i doing here? i don't belong here"
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  86. Ross's 177,000 Bitcoin at today's price (16K) $2.8 Billion not richest person in the world but up in the top few thousand wealthiest for sure
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  87. lol Lex's idea of doxing himself gllobally reminds me of a drug dealer i used to know in LA who told me he had spread cocaine over his entire yard to totally confuse the narco dogs
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  88. humor, like music is fundamental to the spirit i'm with you and the racoon
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  89. I agree with Manolis, disagree with Lex. the multiplication of digital twins of us.....spreads our individual "ME-ness" to a greater distribution area it does not fractionate our ME with each additional digital twin but i can see both points of view
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  90. there's lunar property rights and there is also lunar mineral rights this will have to be worked out
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  91. love your story behind Hedgy. I have a teddy bear that I have had since 1970 (and it shows! he's pretty threadbare these days), but he still has pride of place on my bed :-) and my bear does not have a smile on his face either, in fact he just has a tiny tongue sticking out like he's giving the world a raspberry
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  92.  Lex Fridman  what's with the bot reply?
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  93. the RL ML part of the discussion makes me wonder if the Metaverse is a ginormous CI/CD pipeline for Reality
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  94. Jeff Dean
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  95. If Socrates and Plato were here in 2021 they would be on clubhouse engaged in dialectic
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  96. so far only thing i agree with him on is the need for widespread cheap rapid at-home testing
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  97. this is awesome! i had no idea there is someone out there with a career and body of research that overlaps heavily with concepts i delved into with friends when dropping acid back in the late 1980's early 1990's
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  98. Thanks Lex! what a nice surprise to start the work week with an early am Lex Fridman podcast. You rock my brother
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  99. so awesome topic and guest! especially since i'm listening to Iain McGilchrist's "The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World"!
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  100. i think when we get closer to AGI for mobile robots it may be important for them to also do something like daily affirmations to ground them
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  101. best explanation of spectroscopy I've ever heard
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  102. Like Fight Club, The Chocolate War is a movie that is better than the book 😉
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  103. great point Suleiman makes about 2 billion Muslims having to deal with being associated/blamed for actions of very very small number of radicalized terrorists. much like blaming all Republicans for the actions of a few hundred people on January 6th right? We as humanity need HIGHER RESOLUTION pattern recognition
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  104. Michael is on the side of the sovereign unit being the individual while Yaron is looking at the state as the sovereign unit
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  105. Love that Brian shouted out carbon sequestration....i believe this is a key solution to our worsening climate crisis
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  106. This is the way.
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  107. There should never be any regret for eating really good Texas brisket
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  108. i wonder if it will be personal/mobile robotics or smart homes that take off for the elderly and mass market populations first
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  109. i am curious about the possibility of crossing Planaria (flat worm that can eternally regenerate itself by splitting itself in two...essentially immortal) with Tardigrade (micro organism that survives space vacuum, under water and air environments but only has 2.5 year life span)
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  110. eye contact is something you have to be hyper-aware of when incarcerated....you look at someone for even slightly too long things could kick off
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  111.  @SpongeGod-YawehPants  point taken.....more of a thought experiment like could it be done....not should it be done
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  112. Hmm for me it is not shame stick in my head that counters procrastination so much as the positive of feeling on track and accomplishing goal directed action....but I have been called a machine many times so could be I am an outlier 😅
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  113. Brian Greene reminds me of a mash-up of Jon Stewart and John De Lancie (aka Q from Continuum on TNG)
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  114. I'm not sure I follow how emotions will be emergent with AI systems optimizing for intrinsically motivated objective functions
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  115. love Andrew's description of the distinction btwn perception and perspective this resonates......perception-based folks would tend to be ideologues and in echo chambers, people who take in others' perspectives are remote-viewing situations stepping outside their own point of view and understanding other points of view and relating to them on their terms
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  116. i'm wondering if there are individuals out there who can cycle between empathy for humanity as a whole (Musk) and empathy for individual particular human beings or if the one necessitates attenuating the other
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  117. Maybe she would approve the stimuius if Trump agreed to let her put her name on the check alongside his
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  118. how Dare she talk about Trump ignoring the virus when she herself was in San Francisco's Chinatown inviting people to come on down and join in the festivities in late February
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  119. 🤣🤣
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  120. The Devouring mother sounds like the mother described in Pink Floyd classic "Mother"
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  121. I see a parallel between Jeff's reference frames and hyperparameters in deep learning
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  122. this is fucking incredible!!!! thank you so much Lex!!
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  123. This is the podcast we have been looking for
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  124. Not sure if Lex intended this but wording of title brings to mind Garcia-Marquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera"
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  125. Lex is 100% correct douche-baggery abounds
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  126. fantastic just fantastic!
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  127. i am getting a Leonard Cohen vibe
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  128. interesting concept of the AI counter-argument chyron
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  129. hee hee hee hee Brian's friend's telling him "you should snorkel and not do scuba" brings to mind Edie Brickell's "choke me in the shallow water before i get too deep" ;-)
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  130. Jeff's Thousand Brain Theory brings to mind for me insect vision with their compound eyes producing visual models at the sensory input stage. Jeff's model suggests we also use compound models but not eye-level instead our compound models reside in the neocortex but the process sounds quite similar...sensor fusion, voting of some sort to elicit the best model to use given all the data from all models
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  131. YES!!!! the most promising startups I work with are those that bring together scientific innovations and startup business plans! 100%
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  132. finite nature is not an issue for it being money given it's virtually infinite divisibility
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  133. I want to know when The White Pill audio book will be available EDIT: Malice said that the audio book will be out in a couple weeks : )
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  134. Sam: "We need to be careful about projecting creatureness onto a tool" 100% agree
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  135. His Girl Friday is a GREAT film!
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  136. Joe Rogan just plugged Lex's podcast with David Fravor on JRE #1560 : )
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  137. 2CB allows some control of going in and out of a psychedelic state
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  138. do we know if the neuron is only specifically for dots going up or could the neuron be actvated for dots in vertical motion (regardless of up or down)?
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  139. sharding sounds like trusted fact checkers with stakes
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  140. hey Lex you heard the new Still Corners? https://youtu.be/ZuRsw0Jjj5g
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  141. BitClout has the potential to give lie to the notion that ideas are a dime a dozen
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  142. kids that have grown up playing Minecraft are primed for the digital investing world
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  143. this was my all time favorite psychedelic back in the day (20+ years ago) when i used to partake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2C-B
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  144. music is fundamental to the spirit. humor is fundamental to the spirit
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  145. Lee: "I love walking through the walls" i love it anti-stay-in-your-lane-ism true innovation emerges with lack of lane discipline in science
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  146. would have loved to be a fly on the wall for that dinner conversation between Lee and Joscha Bach ("My Dinner with Joscha")
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  147. very interesting.......is the idea of RNA as THE building block of life.....more science or more narrative (good cohesive story, simple elegant yet perhaps untrue explanation)
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  148. i'm starting to think that the metaverse is the training space for the multiverse
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  149. Hillary was the Queen of War Mongers.....i think the crown has passed to the new Queen of War Mongers....Nimarata Haley
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  150. what Lex and Matt touched on brought to my mind Jeff Bezo's regret minimization framework
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  151. i think it is not accurate to say that ALL protestors who entered the Capitol on Jan 6 had the intention of overthrowing the legitimate government or stopping the peaceful transfer of power, i think there were definitely a small minority of them who intended that (including agent provocateur Ray Epps) but there is no clear indication that all the several hundred people acted with any intention like that
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  152. I have got to push back on Jeremi's assertion that Trump failed to protect his employees.....ok maybe so, but then the SAME THING could be said of Nancy Pelosi who was 100% aware of credible intel that there could be something happening at the Capitol during this process and CHOSE to reduce the number of Capitol Police on duty to skeletal numbers.
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  153. Hey Lex, reaching out b/c you indicated you read all comments : ) i've been emailing you for some time at MIT on potentially working with you on your startup (i do technical recruiting) if you could find time to reply to me sometime at your convenience i would really appreciate it even if it's a hard no some answer is better than non-response. cheers
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  154. brilliant! what Jason said about removing the friction of small talk in making deep human connections via Augmented reality that shows things in common (financially, co-attended events, friends in common, and more)
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  155. Yes! thank you Jason for mentioning that Trump got his outrage-schtick from Howard Stern i used to listen to Howard Stern in the 90's daily
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  156. thanks Lex!
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  157. i encourage people to take a look at Akash Network building first decentralized sovereign permission-less cloud
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  158. Lex: "I shall be the general of the Love Bot Army" : )
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  159. I agree 100% with Liv's answer on the meaning of life. in fact back in 1991 in undergrad my outgoing msg on answering machine was "i'm out evolving towards greater complexity...." : )
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  160. Zuck: "We're not just trying to serve an elite wealthy crowd" not so subtle burn of Apple lol
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  161. regarding Lex's comment about marketing people not being good at marketing......i think there is an enormous difference between technical product marketing experts and content/growth marketing people TPM's are on the product/UX/UI tip like product managers
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  162. hmmmmm what if AGI doesn't come from one particular AI system/agent but emerges from the interaction between various AI agents.....
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  163. Lex: "I could be a figment of your imagination" need consensus for Proof of Lex
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  164. i'm glad Lex brought up the cross-platform fraud emails to his fan base this is especially egregious, i agree, because it is trying to capitalize on the bond between podcaster and audience/subscribers it's like relationship bond-based fraud
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  165. I don't think that it is the case that billionaires do not have FU money, I would suggest that it is they to not have sufficient FU motivation
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  166. what if Elon's pumping Doge was testing the market for what the Elon effect could be on a blockchain he may be building? i think that could a reason why out of nearly 4000 coins he chose one that is unambiguously not adding any particular IP or business value
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  167. little acts of kindness are like micro-dosing white pill
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  168. I find that Lex's questions are getting better and better
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  169. the discussion around mistakes and making the most mistakes to learn and evolve and optimize performance brings to mind my own philosophy in recruiting each "no" is a resolution of an unknown into a known and each subsequent "no" gets me closer to the next "yes" : )
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  170. Chamath's closing extremely thoughtful description and praise for what Lex is doing is so spot on and very well said
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  171. I can understand the Devil being dressed in the French style in the Brother's Karamazov given the depth of francophilia in Russian society and aristocracy at that time.....like the seduction of being something you are not being an aspect of the Devil's influence
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  172. Lex.....do your thing....Don't let the bastards get you down
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  173. zombie part of the discussion brought this to mind "we refuse to be what you wanted us to be" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXkvIcMn--4
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  174. 100% agree Dallas best show of all time
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  175. Elon's impossible or next to impossible milestones that pump the stock price builds equity value not just for external investors but equity for Tesla employees driving them as Lex mentioned to do the best work of their lives so in a sense the outrageous claims actually make them more possible through the market action effects : )
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  176. i've always considered reality emerging and developing as it is shared. shared experiences are the foundation of our shared reality. AI or social robots will need to remember past experiences and past dialogue to truly share reality with us and be seen as true friends worth sharing time with in our lives
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  177. 100% agreed, many or most of the exceptional people who do exceptional things in life their spouses are their secret super power
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  178. regarding the disagreement on Camus's The Plague......i would say the distinction is that some works are character-arc driven and others are story-arc driven
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  179. Regarding user evaluations of how likely they are to interact again with the social bot (for Alexa Challenge) I am curious how a distinction is made between users who are likely to interact again with the bot because they want to help it improve and potentially do better and those who are likely to interact with it again because they are happy now with the level of interaction/understanding it currently demonstrates.
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  180. great intro Lex much love!
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  181. G10 pencil pusher made it past the YT TOS regarding wielding weapons hee hee
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  182. will we need a vaccine passport to travel through worm holes?
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  183. the Trump interview was good but the Lex AMA deeply resonated with me
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  184. love the concept of not knowing the right questions to ask to unlock new layers of your long term partner.......reminds me of prompt engineering for ChatGPT......you get so much more if you know the best questions to ask
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  185. the pattern matching approach used by psychologists in developing MMPI 2 sounds a lot like transformer models or LLMs training on data hmm interesting like art imitating life it's humans imitating AI
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  186. the YT algorithm does not (yet) have the depth to understand beyond the literal so "it's a real knife fight" as a metaphorical expression comparing an ultra-competitive real estate market to a knife fight
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  187. I found example of Philapino wine glass dancing showing the 720 degree rotation like Eric Weinstein describes in relation to spinor movement: https://youtu.be/2ZhYQTAdbMM
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  188. sounds like consciousness is like a liquid that takes the form of the container you put it into hmmmm got to think more on this
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  189. the decreased productivity of Nobel Prize winners could be an artifact of not wanting your post-Nobel Prize work to be less-than your award winning work.....similar with Oscar winning filmmakers there is a pressure to keep producing at that level and then ego issues of not being able to replicate that level of externally recognized success
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  190. love the idea of small peer groups......complimenting and sharpening each others' strengths and calling out each other on our shit
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  191. If you're into astrophysics you may want to read/listen to to Andy Weir (author of "The Martian")'s new book "Project Hail Mary" i just finished it and it is really good!
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  192. a culture where both weirdos and chickenshit people thrive i like it
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  193. i'm feeling that metaverse is like the Google Glass of 2022........really cool for engineers and developers to build and use but not so much for everyone else
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  194. it seems our brains our wired so that the intensity of our experience of love, happiness, joy is dependent on the depths of our experience of pain, grief, loss, suffering
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  195. i like what Sam had to say on meaning of life.....meaning of life is a question that is only asked when not in the peak performance/flow state of being, so then meaning of life is to be in the state of not asking yourself that question
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  196. segue from UFOs to Brazilian jujitsu only on Lex Fridman love you Lex!
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  197. if we have an AI that seems conscious and therefore we interact with it as if it is conscious, i can conceive consciousness as emerging as a function of fake-it-'til-you-make-it
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  198. Sam i think misses JP's pov on religion.....it is primarily serving to instantiate foundational archetypes of human interaction that provide a basis for our moral selves it's not about the specific details of immaculate conception, resurrection of Jesus, etc.
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  199. really enjoyed this conversation though wish you had discussed more about ethical hacking/red teaming/penetration testing/vulnerability assessment
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  200. hey we have an overlap in our lives apparently, Neal and I that is. Magic Leap was a former client company of mine and I placed a Senior Computer Vision Engineer on Jean-Yves Bouguet's team back in 2018 : )
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  201. I think about believing in a flat Earth as emerging from anti-globalism and a desire to return to a world view that pre-dates colonial imperialism (15th century or earlier)....the nationalism and xenophobia making our side (pun intended) all there is thereby psychologically negating the idea of globalism. I do not think of it in terms of a scientific theory that can be proved or disproved but as as a belief system that is held much like a religion and for similar purposes.
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  202. 100% Lex, robotic human computer interaction has to improve exponentially to truly level the uncanny valley
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  203. to Lex's point about using something other than engagement as the metric for ad purposes which is a big way social networking is negative to people's well being and mental health one alternative metric could be completion of something you want to accomplish or reaching an expressed goal (personal, relationship, professional) so basically instead of optimizing eyeballs you are optimizing for getting shit done
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  204. yes! those intermittent serendipitous exchanges.....the whole point of the Santa Fe Institute as well as how Steve Jobs designed Apple HQ which forced/encouraged people who did not work closely together to cross paths literally and figuratively
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  205. speaking of the boring bits in great works.....brings to mind the Fellowship in the forest in Fellowship of the Ring.....it was meandering, over detailed and tedious but Tolkien's work is of course a masterpiece en todo
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  206. given what it is called, i would hypothesize there may be some placebo effect coming from taking "power naps"
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  207. i find it amusing and heartening watching Lex get confused given how brilliant he is and how much less so i am. fantastic discussion!
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  208. regarding what they said about if Karl Marx has been Australian......if that had been the case his beard would have looked more like Jerry Garcia's : )
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  209. This is fascinating discussion and topic and extremely interesting. One thing I am concerned about though is that the metrics we are using to identify life-likely exoplanet candidates are based on our own known periodic table of elements and how science works with those and in our known experience in science....life could be other than what we are using to identify it. for example let's say life is paella. if we use just one recipe to search for paella in the universe we risk missing paella made from different ingredients.
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  210. note to Richard: 55 yr olds are Gen X not Boomers (Boomers are now people in their 70's and 80's)
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  211. hmmm some form of staking to mitigate shitposting like this idea
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  212. Muslim Hawala system of value transfer would be another example for Michael's point
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  213. Spot with curiosity reward function for its RL yes!
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  214. issue with the premise.....sure running out of data but there are a lot of companies focused entirely on generating synthetic data for AI models to use
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  215. i am completely fascinated by this. the most beautiful thing i have seen in ages. delivering on the mission of Occupy Wall Street by hitting them where they feel it $$$$$$$$
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  216. paraphrasing from Inception: I went deep into the recess of her mind and found that secret place. And I broke in and I planted an idea. A simple little idea that would change everything. That the market wasn’t real.”
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  217. Andy Ngo is NOT a right wing provacateur he is a fucking real deal investigative journalist who literally puts his life on the line in violent situations to get the truth out
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  218. 59% right biased sources. and the leftist mainstream media? do you think they are anywhere close to JUST 59% Left-biased sources??? i'd estimate more like 70-80% left-biased sources so in my book Tim Pool is far more balanced
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