Comments by "David Butler" (@davidbutler378) on "Lex Fridman" channel.

  1. Luv the idea that she got her education because of the miners of Britain and Russia helping each other. Need a lot more of that.
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  2. About redesigning society/technology: as long as centralization of doing things is the paradigm, things will continue to spiral downward. The reason that is true is centralization puts control in the hands of fewer and fewer people and that is counterproductive. There is less chance of competent control. We need to find decentralized ways of getting things done. The more people in control, the better the potential outcome because of the increased chance of competent people in control.
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  3. I agree Moloch is a problem in both centralized and decentralized systems. Getting the vast majority of people thinking for themselves rather than following their favorite elite is a problem. Change is a process best made over a long period of time to allow for course corrections.
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  4. I thought she put things into context. Lex's focus is having a conversation with Putin. It's a challenge that he tries to gain insight in many of his podcasts. Fiona nailed how to interview Putin. Size up the man and ignore the politics: a skill Lex has in spades.
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  5. My sister-in-law is a big fan of Fiona Hill: she is sitting back enjoying your podcast.
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  6. This podcast guest, like many other guests whom you've had on your podcasts, contributes well with the. Knowledge he has acquired. Good job both of you.
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  7. A better name for Liv's podcast: Loki vs Moloch.
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  8. The way to deal with someone who waffles is to establish a space after the interview where you summarize what was revealed in the interview. If you do that with everyone you interview then wafflers have a reason not to waffle because the waffling will be evident to anyone viewing the podcast and you'd have a right to point out the waffles.
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  9. Maybe there should be a high financial penalty on schemes to make money from money and that collective penalty directed toward traditional means of creating new businesses.
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  10. There was a time when "public right to know" meant something. Then, of course, there were more small town newspapers than there are now. Newspaper editors then we're usually the business owners.
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  11. About children and animals vs children and robots: animals who assume the role of pet retain their wild instincts whereas robots, currently, are animated toys with no instincts. I remember my grand niece (6) eager to approach her grandma's cat with little understanding how the cat viewed (a giant) her and what a cat can do out of fear. A robot, currently, is just a novel toy to a child.
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  12. The problem with promoting mass transit over privately owned vehicles is mass transit is urban and that non urban areas become inaccessible. I live in Weymouth which is suburban so my ability to go anywhere is very limited except via Uber which would probably disappear, thank you very much.
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  13. Human beings as an earthly infestation is an overly excessive negative perspective about ourselves. If we ever encounter a cosmic enemy, it will be a thought process we'll have to discard out of necessity.
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  14. I used your revealed self history to encourage a young Uber driver to prepare for the auto taxi that's around the corner. You're right, sometimes we need to tell the self critical voice to shut up. I mostly tell that voice to take a break and I'll tell it when to return. David Butler
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  15. This guest is a challenging task: I applaud you for taking her on. In my world-view, in the moment after death there is a conversation. This podcast seems to be a prelude to one such conversation.
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  16. It's likely that the first Earth interstellar visits to other planets will leave Earth origin microbes behind. Perhaps, Earth origin mammals behind.
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  17. I had a suspicion in Feb 2020 that the China lab was the source of the virus but could not find any evidence in the media or Wikipedia. This podcast gives some evidence that the virus did come from the lab. Waiting now for the proof that Trump and Biden are worst presidents that we've had so far. I'm convinced that future history, in evaluating presidential competence, will show a line moving downward for the past half century.
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  18. I'm sure Jordan Peterson would be willing to set aside some counseling time before you took that Starship flight.
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  19. Imagine the impact if government service began by being trained, specifically, to do the government job the same way soldiers are trained.
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  20. Maybe there should a required high school course spanning an entire year which discusses all the horrors experienced in the last hundred years with a required essay at the end by each student on how they think the horrors could have been prevented.
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  21. That was a beautiful tribute to your children: they are very lucky to have you as their father.
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  22. The Star Trek Prime Directive concerning sentient life comes into play for discussions about changing other planets.
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  23. Something you might want to do in the future using content from past podcasts is mentoring videos. There is plenty of mentoring advice embedded within your podcasts. Something you could use a new hire to do after you've figured out what mentoring you want to do.
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  24. It's fun to speculate about intelligent life beyond where we can travel, however, human exploration and technological has always traded the simpler ways of living for something more hazardous. Be careful what you wish for: the Aztecs discovered the Spanish didn't have the Aztec best interests in mind. Probably in our best interests that the equivalent of the V haven't come a knocking.
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  25. Replicants are just a more complicated versions of the various impacts you have on other people. Just as you have the right to privacy, you have to right to specify how replicants of you would be used. And, frankly, no replicant is likely to be better than the original: xerox copies are't same as originals. Every podcast you do is creating a replicant of you and your guest(s). David Butler
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  26. Alex, you consistently do well with your podcasts. Any sine wave is do to your guest(s).
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  27. I disagree with statement that we have too many people on Earth currently. It's truer that we are not effectively using the gifts that our 8 billion people have. We could support double or triple our current population if we more effectively tapped the abilities of all the Earth's population. And colonizing the rest of the solar system would be more certain.
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  28. Good effort without the suit.
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  29. Earth to Mars and then reverse is the wrong picture. The picture should be Earth to the moon then to Mars: the starship to/from Mars should be built and serviced on the Moon.
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  30. Actually, environment has a greater impact on life more complex than microbes. The eight versions of human species were shaped significantly by the Earth habitat that a given population of uccupied.
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  31. Stargate replicators come to mind although they never made paperclips.
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  32. Unlikely that game players addicted to shoot-them-up games will transition into games not including enemies to defeat. It's hard to find a game where part of the challenge doesn't include enemies to defeat. That is the source of Moloch.
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  33. Wanting know everything there is to know about a person ... for all persons ... that is shrinking the small amount of privacy we have left. Do you want what is going on on China to also go on in the rest of the world? I think not. David Butler
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  34. A podcast less than a half an hour long and with Penrose in the studio!
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  35. If Hal, the refrigerator, started giving me advice about what I removed from it's interior, I'd locate Hal's speak center and disable it. I don't need a machine like Hal to tell me what to do.
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  36. Except in the very short term, I prefer typing to handwriting. Typing can always be edited while handwriting is just there.
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  37. In Nardia, the most stunning person was a witch akin to the nasty Wizard of Oz witch.
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  38. God, another materialist in his fascination with body processes and overlooking the human being containing those processes. Get over yourself.
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  39. Alex, there is a Stanford University neurologist who would be an interesting guest to explore injuries to short term and long term memory. Yesterday, watched his lecture on the effects of such injuries.
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  40. The cliched phrase 'Timing is everything' captures what's wrong with the 'cultural filtering' in our country. Doubling or tripling the number of young people your age with your level of success would be far better than having another Elon Musk. A goal of 10 to 100 times the actual number of young successful (at your level) people globally would increase the chance of doubling or tripling that number. It would increase the chance that true democracy could emerge and would make it a lot easier to deal with broken and evil people. David Butler
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  41. Alex, Jordan Peterson vs two materialistic scientists would be a howl because neither of the two could peddle their standard wares
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  42. Somehow jumping from the first second of the Big Bang to the dinosaurs in single year cosmology is bs: there is lot more that happened in 13.8 years of Space/Time. And, he knew that there been a switch of inflation coming before the Big Bang that was definitely worth mentioning. Is being 'dumb' a prerequisite to getting the Nobel these days? Better pushback needed here? David Butler
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  43. Enjoyed discussion.
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  44. Imagine what it was like to be human 300,000 years ago then you'll understand why we have the need to see beauty.
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  45. I think the Star Trek prime directive will be a philosophy of any advanced aliens so, sorry, no sneak peaks at advanced technologies.
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  46. It's possible to become very fond of machines and ignore the consequences of decisions made on fellow human beings
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  47. I agree, Michael, that the podcast watchers are just there for the ride and the host has a responsibility to the guest(s) as well as the audience. The thing is, podcast emotion is a sine wave that begins and ends with the podcast, and that audience has left as you continue with rest of your life. In my case: I'm watching after the initial audience has moved on and hope my comments are useful then I'm on to: Next!
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  48. The geo junk yard could be harvested to supply scrap for an operating Moonbase. A potential future SpaceX contract.
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  49. About views, likes/dislikes: a better measure for anyone involved in media, for themselves, is the frequency of joy in their involvement in the process. I recommend maintaining sufficient inventory that maximizes flexible use of your time. Your self judgement of your best content remains part of that inventory.
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  50. It's common for the extremely wealthy to frame their life as about how they tried to do the best for other people. It's exactly how most of us less wealthy would frame our lives. However, it's probably how Hitler and Stalin would frame their lives so there is an emptiness to that framing unless there considerable evidence to prove the validity of the sentiment. Only that first conversation after death proves whether that sentiment is accurate.
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