Comments by "Orwellian Horseman of the Apocalypse" (@DennisMoore664) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

  1. Man on the Street interviews can be some of the best, most illuminating reporting. Good job, brother.
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  2. Lex taking on the hard topics and I appreciate the hell out of it!
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  3. I can sit around and watch squirrels all day.
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  4. Well, damn. And for two-and-a-half hours. Lex has more stamina than I do. (Two minutes in and I'm already shaking my head - oy vey, Ye)
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  5. 4 and a half hours? Lex is a beast!
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  6. It's a little thing, but I appreciate the graphics that get added to the episodes.
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  7. It's good to see Lex have a good time - even we just get to see the aftermath.
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  8.  @DirtyMuzzie  You made my day, dude. Thank you and have a great New Year!
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  9. “Four legs good, two legs better! All Animals Are Equal. But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others.” ― George Orwell, Animal Farm
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  10. Gotta love the classics.
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  11. Respect - not one of my favorite people but good on Lex for having the dialogue.
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  12. I love your honesty and openness. And I'm loving the journey.
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  13. After using a chatbot a few times now I'm sold. They were consistently pleasant and polite interactions and I even had one express concern for my well being at one point. Definitely better exchanges than with some of the people I've run into online and out in the world.
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  14. @Oceanic Dangernoodle "I'm just a squirrel, trying get a nugget."
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  15.  @tikkidaddy  yeah, nut didn't work as well as nugget in relation to the gold thing.
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  16. Indeed! It's good being able to re-run parts.
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  17. I'd argue that Octopuses may very well meet those three criteria.
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  18. Love what you're doing, Lex.
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  19.  @oswarz  To bleep or not to bleep, that is the interrogative.
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  20. Free Palestine!
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  21. That was beautiful but it reminds me how much of a crap person I can be. Maybe if I had had the kind of father who had read this to me when I was young or was in anyway the man described in that poem I might be a better man today as well. I know he did his best, and it could have been a hell of a lot worse for me, but the damage just rolls down through the generations. I've done one thing right though. The damage ends here.
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  22. To believe that life only exists on this one planet is like thinking life will only be found in one tide pool, pond, or puddle.
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  23.  @robertmiller5258  Or perhaps like Dr David Kipping, an assistant professor in Columbia's Department of Astronomy, proposes in a paper published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences in May of 2020 "... if planets with similar conditions and evolutionary timelines to Earth are common, then the analysis suggests that life should have little problem spontaneously emerging on other planets. And what are the odds that these extraterrestrial lives could be complex, differentiated and intelligent? Here, Kipping's inquiry is less assured, finding just 3:2 odds in favor of intelligent life."
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  24. "...what would you be if you didn't even try You have to try So after a lot of thought I'd like to reconsider Please If it's not too late Make it a cheese burger" Here I am Lyle Lovett
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  25. Anytime people talk about the way the universe formed I think of Carl Sagan and his "we're all just star stuff" line. It's crazy how everything is all atoms and elements but there's this incredible complexity that's come from that stuff which includes all of us (or at least me - I'm taking the rest of it on faith). We're still mostly a bunch of apes using simple tools worried about sky beings. Only in the most recent blink of universal history have only a handful of us grown a virus, split an atom, or modified genetic organisms. So in this now time we all benefit (mostly) from those and other modern advances in science, medice, and technology even though only a few of us actually know how to create those things for all us to use. Yet I can imagine the time when the few create a world where everyone will want for nothing and we can free ourselves from worry about survival and embrace being alive. When we can ethically harness the full energy output of a sun or use other theoretical and currently unknown power sources to provide the energy to allow interstellar space travel and transmute materials at a molecular level. But then I wonder what we will be - if even us anymore. Will we choose to maintain a limited life span of around a century or even keep an organic form at all? Or will our technology become less machine augmentation or cybernetic organism but instead genetic modification of the organic hardware, transferring our consciousness from one being to another and tricking it out to the point where Homo sapiens will only be an ancestral memory of that future Homo galactus race of infinitely(ish) modifiable beings? Or are we going to eventually transcend even this material form and become some form of energized consciousness freed from all ties to time, space, and dimension? I know I'm not writing anything new here and just riding on the coattails of great authors and classic sci-fi shows, but they're the reason I can wonder about these things and try to imagine them. I don't know - I just wanted to put this in words. I've you're still reading, thanks for indulging me. Hope it wasn't a waste.
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  26. That intro is why I love this guy.
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  27. One chimp and the other chimp - ha ha! My hominid!
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  28. Racoon 2024!
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  29. Well, damn!
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  30. Dark - I like it and often agree.
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  31. Neil deGrasse Tyson - now there's someone who needs to be kicked in the nuts.
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  32. If I knew nothing else about him, liking Steve Irwin makes this guy my brother.
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  33. If I could live in VR I'd absolutely live in Skyrim.
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  34. You're like a real life Buckaroo Banzai! Very cool, brother.
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  35. Looks like he did. Dan's a complicated man and the only one who understands him is his woman.
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  36. From what I can tell, a regular domesticated dog (as opposed to an abused or unsocialized or poorly socialized dog) thinks of us us from the perspective of being part of their pack. But it's well known that dogs can form that pack bond with all kinds of other creatures besides people. And I would suspect that dogs probably don't consider any of the other two or four legged animals they interact with beyond the general categories of friend, enemy, or prey.
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  37. 55:46 - Ah yes, Wargames Stephen Falken: The whole point was to find a way to practice nuclear war without destroying ourselves. To get the computers to learn from mistakes we couldn't afford to make. Except, I never could get Joshua to learn the most important lesson. David Lightman: What's that? Stephen Falken: Futility. That there's a time when you should just give up. Jennifer: What kind of a lesson is that? Stephen Falken: Did you ever play tic-tac-toe? Jennifer: Yeah, of course. Stephen Falken: But you don't anymore. Jennifer: No. Stephen Falken: Why? Jennifer: Because it's a boring game. It's always a tie. Stephen Falken: Exactly. There's no way to win. The game itself is pointless! But back at the war room, they believe you can win a nuclear war. That there can be "acceptable losses." ... [after playing out all possible outcomes for Global Thermonuclear War] Joshua (the Computer AI): Greetings, Professor Falken. Stephen Falken: Hello, Joshua. Joshua: A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
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  38. Game Time with Grampa Lex - LMAO! Since I never had kids I guess that just makes me an Old Timer. GET OFF MY BBS YA WHIPPERSNAPPERS!
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  39. 2-Legs 4-ever
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  40. 2:18:26 - if I heard him say nothing else, this would tell me enough about him to know Andrew Huberman was correct -- again.
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  41. Lobster - Frog - whatever. All I know is the water is definitely getting warmer.
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  42. "My name is Andrew Bustamante ... I used to be a Spy". Wonder if he's from Miami?
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  43. Jordan Peterson reminds me of Cheech being The Dad in Cheech and Chong's "Earache my Eye" routine. JP: I don't care what you just bought! You get your fanny-perpendicular and get ready for school! Chong: I'm not going to school! JP: What do you mean you're not going to school?! Chong: Just what I said, I'm not going to school! JP: And why not?! Chong: Because I'm sick, that's why not! JP: Sick...you're sick alright, what's wrong with you now, Prince Charming? Chong: I got an earache JP: Earache, my eye! How'd you like a buttache?! Now get your little fanny out of that bed and clean up this room, it looks like a pigsty. You hear me?! etc...
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  44. Reality isn't the illusion - our brain's interpretation of it is.
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  45.  mark traver  Exactly. We at best share an educated guess of our common delusion about what is happening around us. It's why I identify as a devout agnostic. I'll entertain other people's ideas but there is no way to really know what's happening. The closest I can come is something like the quote credited to Bill Hicks, "Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves". And to paraphrase a great routine of his, it's just a ride in an amusement park. We trick ourselves into thinking it's more than that, forgetting that regardless of whether we're going up or down or being spun around we really only need to enjoy the ride - it will be over before we know it. Maybe we get to go again but we won't know until this one ends so we should probably all try to enjoy this one as much as possible while it lasts, eh?
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  46. I barely understand my own surroundings so forget needing to simulate the universe. You just need to simulate the local environment with any sense of great detail for a simulation to work. I call Murphian bullshit on physics most days while I'm experiencing my simulation.
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  47. Love it when that happens
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  48. It takes so little to be excellent to each other. Just be nice. Don't be a dick.
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  49. Thanks Man. BTW - I'd love to be your Duncan Trussell. Well, there can only be one Duncan, but you get my drift. And I'm closer to a Duncan than any of the other guys you mentioned. Peace.
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  50. I wish I could do something to help you know how much good you are doing with these. Please don't stop, Lex. Wish I could give you a hug, brother. It sounded like you could use one.
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  51. 52:17 - Dulce base - they've always been here.
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  52. I was holding a guacamole container in my non-dominant left hand while eating chips with my more dexterous right when I heard the question at 1:28:14. Switched it up and sure enough, while the end result of a chip with guac entering my mouth was the same, it was a noticeably different experience (or simulation of an experience) assembling and transporting the snack - it physiologically felt different.
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  53. 55:15 - Cows don't have thumbs. Think of more like one keeper and 50 chimps or 50 feral dogs. Not sure I want to live there.
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  54. Happy Birthday, dude! May you have many more years of success and failure. We love you too, Lex (at least I do).
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