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  1. A former teach of mine had quit Scientology after paying 40,000 USD to finally discover the greatest secret he was paying all this money to know: Xenu, the Galactic Overlord. When he threatened to disclose this information, he was told he would lose his business. Well, his school closed not long after, but that could have been because of a number of reasons...
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  2. "Life itself is the fundamental gift; the rest is bonus." Lex Fridman. In a thousand years these words will still be valid.
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  3. I am not proud to say that I have failed in husband school twice in my life---so far! I have been married and divorced twice and the last divorce was as painful as the first one, but I do have an anecdote that still sticks in my mind. It was the first meeting with my divorce lawyer for my second divorce and he said "What's the reason that you want a divorce from your wife?" I looked at him in the eye and said, "My wife is crazy", and before I could finish the phrase he put his hand on my shoulder and said, sir, "Of course, she is. You wouldn't be here otherwise." Something to that effect. I had an inside smile on my straight face as I realized immediately I was getting played like a fiddle, because in the end everyone is working for the rent or car payment.
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  4. Both of you run rings around me in interpreting the books by Dostoevsky and by chance I'm reading Brothers Karamazov right now but I can say I liked the way Crime and Punishment was written the best. If I could say---again to both of you since you obviously like to read---to give World Without End by Ken Follet a read. It's over 1,200 pages and I'm telling you, it's impossible to put down. The man writes and a film goes on in your mind. You look at the words and wonder what he has done to weave such a tale that never tires in keeping your attention. You see the people and events and the world he describes in such detail; he's the Rembrandt of popular fiction. When he writes, another world comes to life. It doesn't delve into the dimensions of Dostoevsky of course, but what it has done for me is revived my interest in reading because he is a master storyteller. With the digital world encroaching on us, my reading skills were thinning out and suddenly I bought World Without End sort of as a joke at the flea market in the beginning of the summer because it was so thick. Much to my surprise it made reading a come-back for me this summer.
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  5. Graham Hancock said something that has stayed in my mind and that is that there are 50,000 or more species of plants in the Amazon and somehow a plant and the root of a vine were put together and processed in a very complex way to have the ayahuasca concoction due its duty. Think about that! The chances of putting those two plants together are astounding.
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  6. One of my students said to me when I asked him what was his purpose in life was to say: "The purpose of my life is to enjoy my life."
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  7. Lex, this is turning out to be one of your best interviews because you are bringing out the quality discussion Professor Peterson is capable of but rarely achieves in many interviews. It is incredible to hear Jordan Peterson pointing out that the left is doing so much to make his life miserable. I am confused; what happened to the left? The 60s revolution was all about letting people follow their hearts and to let others live free. To hear that the left has morphed into this beast that is suddenly attacking intellectuals with or without provocative ideas makes me sad, because somehow, somewhere people took a detour and ended up being worse than what the people who started left-leaning society in the first place were all about. I have heard Jordan Petersen say things that I might not agree with, but I could not imagine saying anything more than that. "Hey, I disagree with you on this subject Jordon." End of story. But no, Jordan is telling us people are so upset because of what he believes in that they are attacking him through the courts, interrupting his way of life, and even altering his professional life. This is wrong. What in the world is going on? I'll tell you what I think and you may or may not agree, but I think a lot of these people have whittled down the activities they do in their life to a minimum and suddenly when they see someone they disagree with, they make it their mission in life to silence the voices that say things they have long ago put out of their minds because it goes against what they think. They do everything in their power to shut a person down who has another visison on a topic. In the past, people on the left put people with conflicting ideas about how to live life on dedestals: think Johh Lennon, Mick Jagger, Leonard Cohen. I see people around me all the time who want to shut me down. You know who it is? It's the people who sit around all day and do nothing but smoke on their balconies or walk around the park to kill time. These are the critics who are complaining about anything they don't like. They're living in some prison in their minds.
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  8. Lex, you've been saying it's hard finding the right woman in your life, could Liv be that woman? You both make a nice couple...
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  9. For the first time I see Lex Fridman's purpose in life: to create a new relgion. Lex, call it FRIDMANITY! JUST KIDDING! What a fascinating vocast. For the first time I see why people turn to the priesthood as a vocation. Father Barron makes it clear that devoting oneself to the church must be an exhilerating feeling of searching for the meaning of God, of life, of existence etc., on a permanent basis. Living each day reciting prayers must be like cleansing one's soul over and over again and never forgetting that perhaps life is really just a mystery that we're never meant to solve.
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  10. Every time I tune in to a Lex Fridman interview, all that I knew beforehand goes into the trash and I gotta start all over again. You know what I mean, the world is a better place with Lex Fridman being here. Paul Rosolie shows us the true meaning of destiny: Something is written somewhere about how long we have to live...
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  11. Professor Frenkel gives us another view of the inescapable paradox we find ourselves fighting with and marveling at all of our lives. In a sense, once we first get an inkling of what time is, from that moment on, everything becomes goalposts that we must kick the ball through to get through another minute, hour, day or month and especially, a year. We see the trace of time on our faces as photos in a drawer that were forgotten, suddenly cause us to pause and hold our breath in seeing what we looked like all those years ago. It is always unkind to us as it steals our youth, robs our beauty, dulls our minds and finally kills us off with toxins that find the weakest organ of choice and transform our bodies back to dust. Time is our master, but we master time as well...
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  12. Lex, I’ll say one more thing. Briefly, I have recently published my first book. It was a lot of work. Now, my best friend won’t even talk to me or when I see him on the street he just walks by. Other ‘friends’ say that they read a few pages on the internet. Only one friend in all of the people I know asked me for a signed copy. It’s like I have suddenly become someone who is repulsive to the very people I used to party with. I know now see that I was okay as a friend if I didn’t do anything different than them, but the minute you look more intelligent, it’s like you’ve got the plague! People are strange when you're not playing the same game as they are... C'est la vie !
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  13. Thank you Lex for another excellent vocast with Demis Hassabis. This is the first time in my life that Demis' idea that we may be alone makes sense. It's something I don't want to believe but he sure makes a good argument for it. I guess the next question is too obvious and that is of course, then what about all the sightings, encounters, abductions?
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  14. Mr Cowen is a great teacher; one learns so much from the Lex Fridman show!
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  15. The biggest red flag of them all is that there was only one photo taken of Neil Armstrong on the moon. Buzz Aldrin said he forgot to take more of the first man to set foot on a heavenly body and yet; Armstrong took dozens and dozens of photographs of Aldrin. You know that NASA would have had that at the top of the list of priorities for promoting future spaceflights and for history to have photos of Armstrong in great numbers. It makes no sense, but I have got to admit no one finds this fact disturbing, Also, the Hasselblad cameras had no dust protection and used analog film in +/- 250° Celsius temperatures. If anyone has left a can of anlalog film in their glove box at the beach on a hot afternoon, you know very well the film was ruined when you took it out. The moon photos are professional quality and very well shot and choreographed. The Director of NASA resigned 3 days before they got to the moon. Yeah, right; you work on a project over 9 years and then decide to quit just before all of your work is vindicated. These are red flags, folks.
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  16. In the end, you have to be your own best friend. There are friends and support groups and people you don't even know who will help you, but if one is really truthful with oneself, you have to be your own best friend. I admire Lex Fridman listening to his inner voice... it will never fail you Lex.
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  17. This is Douglas Murray at his best: "Today it’s not even the descendants of people who did something giving money to people who were descendants of people who were wronged (in the past). It’s a wealth transfer from people who look like people who did a wrong thing in the past to another group of people who resemble people who were wronged.
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  18. If Lex and Vitalik could please watch the Valuetainment videocast with Craig Wright and you still do not come out convinced he is the creator of Bitcoin, then he's got a date with the Academy Awards in America. Not only does he come off as the guy who invented it, but he's got the lingo. And what does he stand to gain by pretending he's the originator of Bitcoin? Lastly, do you think for one minute if Craig Wright is not the creator of Bitcoin, then wouldn't the real inventor poke his head out, or give us an undeniable sign? I don't know why this keeps going on, but please, Lex and Vitalik, why don't you invite Craig Wright on Lex's show and have Vitalik there too. Both of you could question him. Lex is a master of quality fact-getting questions, if Wright has pulled the wool over the eyes of the global population, then Lex Fridman is the man who can get him to cough up. Double that if Vitalik is along for the ride. Come on guys, get this one solved for us, would ya?
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  19. Joe, with all due respect, when you're talking about a world leader, your personal feelings or talk about a possible serious health concern is off the table and it shows disrespect. We must realize that name calling does not fly on the international stage. Once, when Hugo Chavaz called George W. a SOB, Putin called Chavaz and gave him hell for talking so disrespectfully. You have to be humble and forget sometimes the man you have become with power, fame and wealth. You have to be all of that but humble and talk with respect for foreign leaders and ask factual questions---they can be direct---but nothing personal.
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  20. We must always keep this in mind about Sir Isaac Newton. When he became president the the science foundation, a colleague named Robert Schock (sp) told everyone that Newton had stolen some of his research ideas. Then Schock conveniently died as Newton took over the duties of president and the first thing he did was to burn Schock's lifetime of notetaking---all of his research notes up in flames. Newton had 17 portraits painted by 17 artists which tells me he knew he was going to be famous and he wanted to make sure there was a good picture of him. But I cannot help but thinking that maybe Newton is not the person who came up with ideas that are attributed to him. Thanks to him burning Schock's notes, we'll never know.
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  21. Lex has turned us on to a very good writer: Nick Lane. Nick, forgive us for taking a whack at a subject you have spent a great deal of your career investigating. Here is my take on consciousness purely from an intuitive sense. Consciousness is what I believe could be called an invisible membrane that holds all the moving parts of the mind in place like the membrane of a simple place that allows all the parts of a cell to operate freely in factory-mode in a protected environment. But unlike a cell, conscious brain function to communicate with eachother via a wireless technology of a sort. It’s nature’s way of providing a communication system necessary to the brain for its role in thinking and coming to conclusions and taking decisions etc. Consciousness is guided by feelings which are its intuitive brain. As feelings are unique to every human being, it might explain why everyone has a different view on what consciousness really is. The ‘membrane’ of consciousness is nature at its best in coming up with a solution for making the thinking process work in 4 dimensions. Like in a human cell, this ethereal invisible net-like membrane holds all the key elements of the human brain together so that they can function togehter and separately at will. To recap: Consciousness in the human mind permits all the necessary parts of the brain to be able to link up via ‘wireless technology’ and not neurons or cells etc. Imagine it like a hologram where all the links that govern the functions of the mind have an invisible command center and can communicate with each other instantaneously. This is Mother Nature’s way of allowing the brain to be able to make the 400 decisions it has to do every second for the human body to function and survive. Consciousness is the relay switch that allows all of these precious and vital functions to be able to be surveyed and controlled and repaired 24/7. The invisible membrane allows all of the mental capacities like feelings, thinking, dreaming and emotions to operate in harmony; consciousness probably gets downtime and recharged every night by the mind going into dream-mode.
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  22. Lex and Randall, it is a pleasure to hear about race theory and listening in from across the world from you, I think what we have to realize is that you and I, and by that I mean, you, Lex, you, Randall, and I, all think differently! The only time I get into trouble is when I think things like, "Well, Lex would probably think this way or Randall would probably think of me like this if I said that." What am I saying? Are we not going too deep on racism or sexual orientation of people by delving into what each one of us believes about it? The thing is we are all prejudice towards certain people or ways of thinking and what I am trying to say is that we have just got to turn the page and realize that we all think in certain way and try as hard as we can not to harbor negative thoughts about anybody. I know; I know, it's too simplistic! But if we can just take down from the podium a lot of these issues that get people worked up and try to put out a message like, "Hey, we are all different and we all have bad days and above all we are human, but let's just try to put our negative thoughts on anybody out of our minds."
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  23. First, congratulations to Mr Buterin and Mr Fridman for having cracked the financial conundrum and been able to move on with your lives without worrying about money. This must be fantastic and it should also allow you to find your purpose in life. Most of us have to go through each day wondering if we can pay the bills at the end of the month, being financially free is our goal, but maybe its all illusion; maybe it's all hype; maybe money is the biggest mistake civilizations have forced on their people' We're told from very young---as young men---to make as many tiny pieces of paper i.e. money, as possible. But what I think is the purpose of life is to make it through the day and be satisfied in every way possible. We never can live in the past or in the future; when you think of it, all we do is live in the present. We may go to sleep tonight thinking about tomorrow, but when you wake up... it's today.
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  24. What is most amazing to me about when we die is the accounts of long-dead realives coming to see the person at the end of their life. They often sit on the patient's bed. Why do they do this? Because sitting on the bed is more comforting to the patient. Patients who have been paralyzed have been known to sit up just before dying an say goodbye to the family members around the bed. Many types of phenomenon occur at the time of death according to researchers. What I think happens is that our soul resides in the body we have until the time of death and then moves on to the next realm. It seems implausable, I know, but it certainly appears that our life on Earth is not the only time we are alive. Our spirit is perhaps eternal and we go on in the pattern of who we were on Earth.
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  25. When I asked one of my students, who was working in a top-level job in a commercial bank, what was the meaning of life, the first thing he said to me was something like, "You always ask the most unbelieveable questions." And then he thought about it and finally said, "The meaning of my life is to enjoy my life." Boys and girls, we can search through our mental dictionaries all our life for an answer to that question, but I am sure Jean-François was right and has the best answer, because after all, we are really here to enjoy ourselves.
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  26. The thing we must never forget is that from the beginning humans have done everything. The frozen man they found in the Alps that was ambushed 5,000 years ago was found to have everything necessary to get him through the day and night. His knife was hand made and as sharp as a razor. Machines, AI, chips in our brains and the like will indeed enhance our existence, but we must never forget that when humans do something, there is that hand-made touch that is so elegant because it's imperfect. Machines are going to homogonize us to where everything will look like an alogrithym was consulted before making it. We cannnot stop the march of time, but when we see that people are more than willing to let machines do everything they can do and better, it might be a time to consider raising our children without high technology until the age of, say, 15 years old. This way the kids would have to learn to draw, paint a picture, change a tire, etcetera without anything like a robot or AI assisting them. We must not bury our natural abilities.
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  27. Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Filippenko, Thank you Mr Fridman for your humble interviewing style that allows viewers to interact in your videocasts as if we were in the same room. Thank you Mr Filippenko for undoing some of the knots that bind us to believing in things that you have helped better explain. May I ask both of you gentlemen to watch a Jerry Kroth videocast about UFOs that will cause you to question this opaque phenomen. Mr Fileippenko will be pleased to know that Jerry Kroth has held material in his hands that was probably manufactured on another planet. I realize I can only offer this as proof of UFOs, but when you hear Jerry Kroth explain it, there's no doubt in my mind he's telling the truth.
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  28. One of my students, when asked the same question, looked straight ahead and then swiveled his eyes towards me and grimaced and then smiled and said, "Why do you always ask the most outrageous questions? How do I know what the meaning of life is----no, wait," he said. "The meaning of life for me is to enjoy my life." That gave me what I had been looking for all along. Of course, that's it; the meaning of life is to enjoy the whole trip, good days, bad days----all the days until your last breath...
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  29. Randall, it is very interesting to hearing you and Lex talk, because you obviously know your subject inside and out, and Lex has become a master interviewer. What I think is very, very delicate is to go back in the heads of, say, Jefferson, Lincoln, Alexis de Tocqueville. Not because you have got it wrong in what they wrote---because they probably knew they couldn't say what they truly felt, so they adlibbed a bit. Look at it this way: less than 1% of artifacts of antiquity have survived to the present day. We try to get our heads around what Socrates thought and said and Plato and Roman Emperors and some writings have survived, but can we honestly analyze them as people correctly after centuries of time have passed? Can we honestly come up with Thomas Jefferson's actual motives and mindset with more than 2 centuries having passed? What I think we tend to forget is that there were not modern-day conveniences back in Lincoln's day and life must have had a grit and charm to it in his day that no matter how we try, we will always come up with turning Lincoln's own words to mean things that I am convinced in his time meant slightly different things. If I were President of The United States, my way of solving the race problem would probably go this way. I would say to people that everyone has to try to not think bad things of other people and when they do to try and say to yourself to avoid thinking that way. That's the end of the race problem in my mind. If people get to know themselves a little better and start to realize that when they begin to think negative things of whomever it is they find themselves in conflict with, I think the only thing we can tell them and keep telling them is to try their darndest not to let yourself think that way about other people. Now this is never ending, because every day you wake up you've got a mind garden full of weeds to pull, but it just may be the way to turn the page on the current way of looking at the problem...
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  30. Lex, you can't find love---anywhere---until you love yourself. People are attracted to people who love themselves and the opposite is true.
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  31. To live our lives as masters of the universe, we have to follow one road with any sort of AI application: All AI projects; be it robots, computer systems---you name it---must be to humans what the family dog is to humans---something that is for our betterment or emotional stability or companionship, but always and never anything other than a presence in our lives that follows our commands and nothing more than that. We would die rather than be blackmailed by our pet dog to do something we don't want to do, and whatever that comes out of the lab must have that as a built-in part of it if it is AI. Of course, no one will listen to this advice so plan 'B' is this: we must not fear the AI inspired technology that will be coming at us six ways from Sunday any more than we fear fire. We have firemen and we will need to start putting into place----I hate to say this----but AI Protection Units that will insure that no programmed AI robot etc., ever gets into takeover mode. Lastly, thank you Sam and Lex for doing what you do: enlighten us all into the wonders of the human. I have enjoyed having you there for inspiration and advice...
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  32. It is so inspiring to hear Jeff going after his dream job of building spacecraft and having founded Amazon to fund it. What I have gleaned from space travel for humans is that it is brutally hard on the human body for someone to be in space for any length of time. Jeff, what are you working on to make the space capsule protect better humans from, say, cosmic rays?
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  33. If it hasn't been said already Yuval Noah Harari is the conscience of the human community, in person. Of course, he is one of many talented and intelligent people who have been able to assess the human condition from ground zero and spell out in capital letters the state of the world. Lex Fridman is the catalyst of the moment and uncanny in his ability to keep a hot subject cool and dramatic subject viewed in rational terms. Fridman can draw out of wise people like Harari words that everyone can understand and that describe issues in understandable sound bites that illustrate how humanity is on the proverbial edge of the abyss. Yuval shows us how civilization is close to collapsing and nearing destruction and all of this by our own devices! Does anyone realize how quick the AI phenomenon has come at us? It is like a coffee stain on white linen, and now there are AI human-machines that can mimic us down to catch phrases and probably even give emotional abuse. Boys and girls, Mr Harari is someone we should listen to. There should not be human-like AI robo-people walking among us that can fool us into thinking they are human. The big question of course is that there is a money tree growing in every AI Development's back yard. People will create zombies if there is sufficient monetary compensation. Don't forget; we're human. We run on a system called capitalism where only increased profits makes sense. We have got to change the economic model and we have got to have AI police and investigators.
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  34. This is one of lost planet airman Lex Fridman's best interviews. Konstantin Batygin is a great catalyst, but Mars and the Moon must be conquered and made habitable. This is where I believe Musk has his thumb on the pulse. We live on a planet where one madmen could send an atomic missile to Moscow, which in turn would send a missile to New York City and America would in turn send a missile to... Nuclear winter would end our civlization. We've got to have our species alive and well on other worlds. The alleged destruction we possibly see on Mars points to an eerie similar scenerio where atomic war may have decimated that planet and some of its lucky escapees ended up colonizing the Earth. Now it's time to go back and make it a place where our species and others can thrive. It's doable.
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  35. Matt Walker is a teacher bringing new concepts and shining a light in areas we only glanced at before.
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  36. Jocko's information about Hitler listening to his generals conflicts with several sources I have listened to. Hitler overrode his generals every step of the way and in some ways it worked out well, like invading France. But in operation Barbarosa for example, the Wehrmacht was 30 kilometers from Moscow and could have seized it easily. Hitler didn't listen to his generals and ordered them to clean up resistence that was behind the German lines. This gave Stalin time to dig in and fortify positions and bring in new troops, equipment and supplies. When the Germans had cleaned up the resistence they found two lines of defense around Moscow and because the Russian winter set in, they were never able to take their prize. Equally, Hitler refused to supply his soldiers with winter clothes--again not listening to his military chiefs--and the German soldiers suffered terribly trying to fight in the bitterly cold Russian winter. I do believe however, if General Paulus had listened to Hitler and not surrendered in Stalingrad, they could have pushed through. Paulus disobeyed direct orders and 100,000 men went off to the gullag. 95,000 troops succombed to the freezing cold weather, disease, lack of food and internment in the work camps. Stallin on the other hand let his generals call the shots all through the war, and they of course were the victors. But the truth is that there are a lot of military analysts and no one really knows all the details.
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  37. Nice question Lex. As a sculptor, I agree with Mr Cowen’s appreciation of the two sculptures of Michelangelo. To carve out of stone and liberate the figures within a block of granite to such perfection is something that rises above what seems to be humanly possible. Idem for the Vermeer. It would be interesting to know what Mr Cowen thinks of the recent NFT, JPG file that sold for 69 million USD. My personal view of modern art is that I believe there are artists and there are technicians who do art but aren’t really artists who ‘have’ to do their work. The JPG file art work is a technician’s piece to me. A good example of technician-artist is Jeff Koons who commissions his works of steel to be made by artisans in a factory and then sell his ‘sculptures’ for tens of millions of dollars. Who am I to say he’s not doing art? I can only offer an opinion, but I don’t mean to judge others who work in the art scene.
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  38. Stan Fridman, a retired nuclear physicist and recently retired and highly respected UFO researcher put his research tools to use and fact-checked Lazar's story. Lazar said he got a Masters in Physics at MIT, but that the CIA had erased his records. Stan went to work and interviewed people at MIT and no one had ever heard of him. Stan then found Lazar's high school and got to check his records: he graduated in the lower third of his high school graduating class. This was a red flag if their ever was one. Would anyone graduating at that level from high school even be considered to be MIT material? It's very doubtful. Lastly, would the US Government hire someone without a university degree to back engineer the most advanced spacecraft ever known to man? How would someone with Lazar's capabilities be even asked to work in a top secret installation? To Bob Lazar's credit, Stan said that he never varied in his story, but Stan Fridman did not believe Lazar's story and nor do I. What I find difficult in the Bob Lazar story is why on Earth would anyone lie about their educational pursuits? Imagine if it was found out Lex Fridman really never got a Ph.d from MIT, and he said the CIA erased his records. Lastly, everyone in the world wants Bob Lazar's story to be true, but it does not add up. It's an opinion.
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  39. There is a solution to the Israeli / Palestinian problem and I believe it must begin with getting Palestinians on one patch of land and the Israelis on another. The Gaza strip should be re-examined for obvious reasons. I believe one way to begin the process of getting Palestinians to accept Israel as a legitimate state is getting the Palestinians in one place, one country so that they can have their own world-recognized identity and democratic government. One way to solving this problem may be with art. A museum housing art work could sit on the borders of the two great nations and be a place where people could let their minds open and their hearts fill up with beauty and/or provocative creative ideas that only work to enhance our understanding of each other.
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  40. An interesting thing happened to me. I was an English teacher to working professionals whose 2nd or 3rd language was English. I am songwriter and artist and I have always worked a side-job, because my creative work has never paid off. But one student gave me a present for the end of the year. It was a 250 USD bond to have my palm read. I, admittedly lightheartedly, went to have my palm read by a very old woman with a lot of moles on her face. In short, she asked me if I ever believed in my intuition. I said no and she said I should because it was a very strong part of my internal make-up, my inner self. From that day on, I started to listen to my inner voice and it has never let me down.
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  41. It is hard to understand how anyone could study economics for 20 semesters, but now we understand why Professor Wolff is such a well of knowledge in economics. What is striking is how the west will let itself become afraid of an idiology to the point where schools will exclude it ( even though it's part of the dismal science ) from the curriculum. Imagine doing 19 semesters of economics and only one teacher turns you on to Marxism! When my book comes out---and soon I hope---I know my concept of an economic system to replace capitalism will surely have Professor Wolff---and Lex---rolling in the aisles. I haven't even had one semester of economics. So; why write a book about a new economic model? No one will believe it, but I wanted to write a book to cement the end of my teaching English to working professionals in a French speaking society and one day---almost sort of as a joke---I said, "why not invent a new economic system?" Teknomix is the name I've given my ( admittedly utopic ) system, because I wanted to get away from the ---isms. My first line editor loved the book and urged me on to get it published. The rest is history...
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  42. We have finally heard lost planet airman Lex Fridman's secret to great interviews: he's barefoot! I should have guessed, but my Nike's were too tight on the heel and I lost concentration. Seriously, I think I have learned more in the last so many minutes hearing Chris Duffin's take on human feet than in my whole life; I have never heard anyone talk like this about the human foot. One would have thought lifting incredible weights would crush the foot, flatten the arches etc., but no; Chris shows us what we all need to realize: there is no need to perfect our feet because they have been impeccably designed. Doesn't this explain why it feels so good to go barefoot and feel Earth tickle our toes?
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  43. Marriages fail because couples grow together or grow apart and no one is ever really to blame. One person can love hiking in the mountains so much that that is what he or she wants to do every week-end and the other person prefers the seashore. Eventually, this becomes a conflict zone and a lot of other excuses are thrown in the mix, but in reality the two people in the couple simply have different interests that they cannot abandon no matter what.
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  44. Craig Wright won a court battle in Florida proving once and for all that he is Satoshi Nakamoto. I believe we walked away with more than 100 million in cash. Doesn't this really prove once and for all that he came up with the name?
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  45. Lex Fridman has shown once again his uncanny ability to bring out the best in his guests, and Jared Kushner delivers some very strong arguments about how to achieve peace in the middle east. I do not have any geopolitical credentials; in fact, I do not even have a background in international affairs---I am an artist---so please bear with me in what I am about to say. What I believe is that I have a workable, long-term resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict that will benefit Israelis, Palestinians and the world writ large. Jared has said that he believes it is possible to have peace by various means, but he does not see the need for Gaza to be evacuated; I do. Today, war between Israel and Hamas will possibly be unleashed like never seen before and suffering and death and increased hatred between two great nations that we all know will only grow. In short; we know how this movie begins but we can only guess how it ends. But I have a peace plan. It is not going to please everyone. Here goes: Gaza must be evacuated and Palestinians relocated. Every building, structure, road and infrastructure should be bulldozed into the ground and the 145 square kilometer land area that Gaza has been should be made into a sort of Galapagos of the middle east and serve as a nature reserve for endangered species of animal, fish, plant, bird etc., on the planet. This area which is about the size of the Isle of Wight could be transformed into a nature reserve where Palestinians and Israelis could eventually work side by side in saving species from extinction and be a gift to our childrens' children as how we resolved this terrible conflict. Just let this roll around in your mind and what you will find coming into your thoughts are pleasant images instead of tragic ones. Lex, Jared in all due respect, I know this peace plan means for us to be cruel to be kind, but the Gaza strip is turning Palestinians into eternal prisoners of the human community because of the inhumane open sewer of living conditions it offers. Palestinian children are being psychologically damaged, the great Palestinian people need one patch of land to live on, and there are countries around the world who have a need for workers. China has whole cities with apartment buildings of millions of apartments empty, for example. We could at least ask them to help out in taking Palestinians leaving Gaza, same for asking Jordan for more land for the Palestinians. It may be a little early to be offering a peace plan, but what I am offering is something good to replace something very bad and it is doable. This is a holy site and what could be more appropriate for the peace plan than to make Gaza a sanctuary for every species on earth bordering on extinction? It is doable.
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  46. Johnathan Haidt is someone who shines a light on what is happening to our civlization with social media platforms showing they can influence human beings exponentionally.
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  47. Lex Fridman just keeps getting better at winging in those questions that initially destablize famous people like Douglas Murray, but which end up often with profound answers that amaze us all.
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  48. This is where I am in no man's land gents, I simply have not found what you, Jordan, seem to have built your whole existence on and by that, I mean your faith. I cannot fathom how someone can be so certain that there is a God and Jesus was his son... the son of God. I don't know where Lex is in his beliefs but I know only one thing and that is that I follow the light inside me and everything else gets questioned to death before I'd follow what anybody said no matter who they are. Where that puts me on the spiritual calendar you both seem to adhere to, I don't know. But it's worked well for me until now...
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  49. Mr Fridman once again interviews a person who bring knowledge about our environment that can save lives. Thank you Mr Racaniello for letting us know what is out there in the evironment that can do harm. Where I live on the other side of the world from you, eating fresh meat 'tartar' is a famous lunchtime dish. I will now refrain from eating it thanks to Vince's advice.
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  50.  @FueledMemes  GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. You could very well be right. What is astounding is how they have to brew the root for hours and add the plant and do all kinds of chemistry-like things to end up with the right mixture. It was most likely trial and error, but it is still amazing how those two plants produce such a potent substance.
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  51. We don't hear anyone talking about the carbon footprint of BCoin. Apparently, it uses a staggering amount of energy to exist. Does Ethereum use the same power supply?
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  52. Isn't the whole idea of life about getting through today and just before you take off for the land of your dreams, if you can look at yourself and realize that you are a happy person, that you are happy with your life and then----at least for me---it means you've made it, you've lived a good life? Because all we know is today, we can't even count on being here tomorrow, so if before you crash out tonight you can look back at your life and your day and say "I'm happy with myself and my life", then you've succeeded; you've made the grade; you've found your purpose and lived it to the fullest to the best of your ability.
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  53. Lex, in all due respect, you can't go on a global videocast and ask how can you find the right girl. This time Joe can only look down and come up standard BS phrases until this painful intermission has ended. You can't do this because you have everything you possibly need for love and romance and you know it. You are an international celebrity and you are asking how to meet the woman of your dreams? Give us a break. You're playing with us here. What is the way to find out if a girl would like to go out with you? You ask her and you know what she's going to say: yes or no. NEXT tough subject to deal with please...
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  54. Lex Fridman has opened up the human mind by allowing great thinkers like himself to express their views on his vocasts. Here is the number one thing that erases depression. The disclaimer I have to offer is that I am not a health worker; I am an artist/musician. What will reduce depression to bread crumbs is to go for one's greatest challenge. The caveat is that this turns off people in droves because your mind must goes on a different train track in your head for it to work and it's uncomfortable for a long, long time. But it works. It works to eliminate non-essential things from the mind that tear us down because if you truly go for what is your greatest challenge, you have no time or energy left for the inner-voice, or internal witness or one's auto-critic to do its dirty number on one's state of mind and sense of self-esteem among a long list of other zones. Lastly, it's hard to do; it's hard to do one's best because of how much it takes out of you. But it's a trade-off isn't it? Stay the same and you go down to your socks once again: go for what will make you think you're great and it will use up every drop of your energy to get you there and leave behind the negative things that used to bring you down.
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  55. Craig Wright was on valutainement with Patrick Bet-David. Pat does not mince words. He goes for the juglar and fleshes out anything that even hints at being fake. Craig Wright claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto. If you listen to what he says and how he says it one cannot come away without thinking that he is telling the truth. The proof is that if there was a real person who was the actual Satoshi Nakamoto, or even a friend or acquaintance, someone would have said something. No one said a word after the interview!
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  56. Is this idea possible in either of your great brains Lex and Professor Rees? Could black holes really be compressors of material from exploding stars to planets that are reduced from extreme pressure inside the black holes to the size of a tennis ball per se only to emerge with a 'big bang on the other side which in turn re-creates a universe? This would explain multiple universes...
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  57. There's a third element that makes for good conversation and move over Rogan--Lex Fridman is king of the mic-o-talkers on this one. Quality questions equal quality conversation. Lex Fridman not only crafts his sentences to let the interviewee, as in this case with Rob Reid, bring out the best of himself in his own words, but he asks questions that cause the interviewee to go deeper in their minds and further in their intellectual gold-mind, than they've ever gone before and thus giving us the listening and viewing public star-studded answers to panorama of subjects being discussed at any given time. The Rob Reid, Lex Fridman interview is proof-positive of how quality conversation is rooted in quality questions.
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  58. Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Filippenko, Thank you for your reflections on the meaning of life. What keeps coming back in my mind and maybe Mr Fridman can get people who study the moon on his program, but the Earth's moon keeps coming back into my consciousness because the probability of it being there, allowing life on Earth to flourish, it being 400 times smaller than the sun and 400 times closer to the sun giving us a perfect eclipse. Without the moon the Earth would rotate every 6 hours and life as we know it would not be possible. Something tells me the key to life on Earth is on the moon.
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  59. Thank you Mr Fridman and Mr Pompliano for your great questions Lex and for your excellent answers Mr Pompliano and bpth of your thought-provoking ideas in this excellent videocast. Every time I tune in to Lex’s interviews, I keep saying to myself “okay, okay, I’ll just watch for a while, cos I got to get back to doing nothing asap.” The problem is there is no dead-space in a Lex Fridman interview, and you guys are no exception. The world is going to need a Bitcoin Pope and I recommend Lex… Just kidding. But let’s have a look at what one of the giants in finance has to say about the mythical Bitcoin. Here is what Nouriel Roubini has to say and if you’ve got a bottle of whiskey in the room, I’d recommend you pour yourself a tall drink. Here goes: “You have to ask yourself if it’s an asset, it’s not even a currency or an asset, usually, stocks, bonds, loans, real estate give you some income, dividends, coupon, interest or rent. Some assets like residential real estate give you huge housing services. Gold doesn’t have an income but there is industrial use, utility as jewelry, and as a past monetary use and as a store of value. Bitcoin doesn’t have any income, doesn’t have a use, doesn’t have any utility. It is a pure speculating, self-fulfilling bubble on a price appreciation. It doesn’t have a feature of an asset, or a currency, it’s just a self-fulfilling bubble. It’s intrinsic value is zero, and it needs more energy than it takes to power Argentina for it to work. If you added pure carbon tax, the value would be negative not even zero. There have been articles of pump and dump schemes, we know that tether issuance is a billion dollars every other day. Tether and BTNX?is being used to by bitcoin and it’s not backed by anything. There is a bunch of wash-trading, or spoofing. Bitcoin uses the energy of a country the size of Argentina. Instead of having a few institutions validating transactions, 70% of all the mining of Bitcoin is being done by 5 or 6 firms based in Russia, Belaruse and China. To rely on countries with no rule of law to verify transactions, there is centralization of mining, of exchanges with 99% of all that’s occurring, of developers, of whales. The genial condition of Bitcoin is worse that North Korea, where Kim Un Jung and his cronies owned an entire country. It’s a lie that it’s a decentralized system. It’s centralized where a bunch of insiders and whales, and others are controlling the entire system and manipulating it in states where there is no rule of law." To recap: 1. A lot of manipulation 2. Pump and dump schemes 3. Spoofing 4. Wash trading 5. Front running 6. Issuance by tether or a fiat currency not backed by much that is used to manipulate the price of Bitcoin 7. It’s a bubble 8. Bitcoin is not a currency 9. It is not a unit of account 10. It is not a scalable means of payment 11. It is not a stable store of value, not even Bitcoin conferences accept it as a means of payment because the price volatility implies your profit margin can be wiped out 12. Calling them crypto-currencies is a misnomer, they’re not even assets 13. Transaction costs of Bitcoin preclude its use, they are much higher than normal currency 14. The technology, proof of work, doesn’t allow more than 5 transactions per second for Bitcoin, Visa, for example, has 24,000 transactions per second 15. It’s not going to be used as a scalable means of payment---ever 16. It’s never going to be used for goods and services or across borders, because there is no way that bitcoin will be allowed to transfer large amounts of money because kyc and mel, 17. It will be used for speculation and buying other crypto-currencies 18. It’s a self-serving system
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  60. Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Brook, Thank you Mr Fridman for a very interesting interview. Thank you Mr Brook for opening my mind to your incredible but accessible analyses of many of the concepts of the mind and thinking and living that have escaped me from nailing them down and being able to assimilate them logically.
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  61. Mr Hoskinson has brought to the surface and explained clearly the hesitation I have always had in buying Bitcoin. Now I know my instincts were right. It was a brilliant idea; it was the first virtual submarine to travel in digital oceans, but it was a one way trip and now it's a museum piece.
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  62. Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto and he has just been awarded 50 Billion dollars of Bitcoin by a Florida judge. Case closed.
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  63. The biggest question I'd like to see answered about how life began came to me when I watched and listened to a videocast by Professor Jim Tour of Rice University. He said that the membrane of the simplest living cell had 10 to the 78 billion possibilities and only one combination could work. He said the carbohydrates on top of the membrane were more complex than the RNA and DNA combined. Boys and girls, when you add in to the equation that all the parts of the cell have to be combined at just the right moment and just the right temperature for the cell to come alive, you can no longer buy the idea of the primordial soup and all of the things necessary for the cell to function happening in one shot by chance. Of course, we'll never know. But the incredible complexity of a single cell--when one part of the cell wants to send material to another part of the cell it builds a suspended bridge, sends over the material, and then the bridge dissolves---there is no way that single cell happened in a muddy pond somewhere and life began. I'm not a scientist, but after hearing Jim Tour's lecture, I could no longer believe what I learned from science classes in school. The thing is, even if life emerged somewhere else in the universe, the absolutely phenomenal complexity of just one little bitty cell is beyond our mind's ability to understand. Whatever happened for the first cell to begin and then the branching off and mutating and forming plants, animals etc., is something we can only ponder on but probably never find the origin of. But I hope I'm wrong; I hope they do find the answer, because I have been in complete awe of what life is since I listened to Jim Tour's lecture.
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  64. Bob Lazar is the most sympathetic person who speaks the language the small child in each and every one of us wants to believe, but he lied about his degrees and university education and was found to graduate from high school in the lower third of his class by researcher Dr Stand Fridman. Fridman said the one thing Lazar has done is never vary from his story. But he said the CIA erased his records from MIT and when Fridman checked with MIT officials they said they never heard of him. That's a red flag and when someone says something like that you have to put a question mark on everything they say from then on. Joe Rogan is probably one of the most up-front individuals you could ever meet, but people like Bob Lazar are living proof that they can concoct stories so real that even they believe them.
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  65. I have a handicapped child who is confined to a special residence the rest of her life. One day on the train, I asked a priest why? Why did this happen? Why did God let this happen? He said, "They ( handicapped people) seem so happy in the world they live in, so God has provided them a place to live in peace and happiness". I am paraphrasing, but I what I came away with is that the Church has no idea why God allows people to be handicapped and how could it? Nature doesn't say being handicapped is wrong, nature simply allowed it to happen because the laws of chance are even out of its bounds.
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  66. I know for myself that after 6 hours of sleep I’m on top of my game---but only for three days---then I need to have a little more, like 7 ½ or 8 hours. It’s frustrating. When you think that when you reach the ripe old age of 60 that you have slept 20 years, that’s when you realize that this sleep thing needs to be retooled. I know people who get by on four hours a night, but I’m in the 7 to 8 hour range. It’s a pity, because life could expand by a third if we could find a way to eliminate the need for sleep.
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  67. Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Tedrake, Thank you Mr Fridman for showcasing some of the most talented people in the world. You are not only one of the most influential people in the world, you are doing it to make the world a better place and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say that we are all better off and more informed since you began doing videocasts. For the robotic fantasies people have, I think that we have to realize that people are afraid of rogue robots malfunctioning because of artificially enhanced intelligence systems that go berserk, because our sixth sense is way ahead of anything our minds can see coming this way. The sixth sense is buried so far in most people’s consciousness that they aren’t even aware they’re tuning in, whereas others who have been fortunate enough to flick on the on switch at some point in their lives can actually use it like a tool. I’m speaking for men though, because I think women have a better relationship with their inner voice or intuition than men do. Therefore, if we look at all of the other things people believed would someday happen, we can see that there is a correlation between imagining things and the things actually happening, like going in space. Today we have people who believe we will be able to travel at light-speed, and to travel through time, or become cyborgs. For myself, I think it’s because, in our minds, our sixth senses can see that these things are real and that they’re coming someday soon to a planet like ours. Be well -
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  68. Lex, Let’s not forget one thing. We are all trapped in the present. The future never happens. Never happens. What we have been put on Earth to do is get through today. If, for example, before you go to sleep this night, you can look back on the day and say it was a pretty good day---then; you’ve made it. That’s all we’re supposed to do. So; what about all the stuff that ‘could’ happen. Well, a lot of it probably will, but a lot of it probably won’t. What we have to realize is that we have to turn the dials in this day and not say we’ll do it in a ‘future’ that only exists in our minds. Bring life back to the present and the Earth will continue it’s journey; live life for tomorrow and life will become the series of mini-skirmishes over all societies that we see as this day comes to an end. It’s down to us to choose which way we want to live: in the present which we know is real, or in some future which is only mental constructs that become dystopian landscapes because the majority of human minds only create what is most improbable and which causes the most emotional impact. Why? Because we’re human!
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  69. Cheap shot! At 2 minutes in, Lex, you interrupt one of your most learned and enlightening interviewees because you're looking... for a Cobalt superstar. It shows you're tired. I say cheap shot, and I mean it, because you are showing burnout on the horizon. You must stay humble and respect every minute with these incredibly intelligent people you are interviewing and not take them for granted. When you see yourself doing this it's your intuition trying to connect. It's saying: You need time off. Unfortunately---and it's only protocol---but I am going to have to start billing you for... Okay, okay ending it with humor there. Lex? Lex? Is he... smiling? Lastly, the best advice I think you can give anyone of any age is to follow your heart---do what you love---and listen to your intuitive forces whatever they may be: gut feeling, solutions that come in dreams. One way to find what you want to do in life---and there are many---is to ask yourself before you go to sleep "What is it I'm supposed to do? What do I want to do?" Sometimes you wake up and you know what you're here for.
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  70. We must look to nature when we are stumped. Great intelos from around the globe have been positing their thoughts on what AI can or cannot do. The wolf or animals like it were domesticated eons ago and, in our homes, today there are as many dog breeds as there are ice cream cone flavors. What has to be the golden rule is to follow the painstaking path our ancestors took in breeding their wild animals into becoming loving and loved household pets. We must first identify the silicone gene and other parts of a synthetic being that guide its consciousness and assure that AI-produced objects, machines, beings’ etcetera are human friendly at all costs. This is doable. AI may be able to out think us, but we are fools to believe it will evolve into kind, friendly synthetic creatures that only have our well-being in mind---unless we program it in from the start. Yes; we are gods creating other gods but they must never surpass us or all is finished.
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  71. I'd like to share a technique for what I think depression consists of and I of course don't include clinical depression or people who have severe depression. What I have found is that feeling depressed is because of thoughts. The thoughts are themselves depressing because they are always about one's failures or self-criticism and the thing about the mind, or for my mind, is that if I say to myself "next thought please", the thought that was troubling me disappears. It often comes back, but sometimes I get many moments of a blank or empty space with nothing. Sure enough, the bad thought or another one will come back, but by saying "next thought please", the mind will cancel it out for you and it allows one to at least time to get away from a troublesome pattern or type of thought that brings you down. Like a lot of things, I can't say if this is really a way to get out of feeling depressed, but what I like is that it gives you precious moments where you can have silence and sort of recover from whatever it was that was bothering you. At any rate, it's a win/win type of thing because at least one is trying to get a handle on one's negative thoughts. I also think that what these obsessive thought patterns are that bring people down show is that they have a built-in obsessive-thinking psychology. So; why not use it to one's advantage? Another thing I try to do if I'm stuck in one of those times is to use my mind's obsession to solve other problems in my work. I say to myself, okay, let's get obsessive about finding a way to solve this problem I have at work. In other words, use the thought patterns one has to be used to help one solve seemingly intractable problems in one's work or social life.
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  72. I tuned in to Neil Gershenfeld's interview with Lex Fridman and there is so much going on in the world of technology and innovation that it feels like you don't have to wonder what the future is going to look like, because with Neil Gershenfeld it is already here!!
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  73. Hasn't it been shown that the Google engineer had forgotten that he had taken a quarter hit of purple haze a few hours before he went to work?
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  74. Algorand i.e. all go round, is a great idea and a giant step in getting the murky waters of cryptocurrencies clearing to have enough visibility for the system to be able to be scrutinized correctly. Excellent interview. Lastly, why stay with block chain? Isn’t hashtag a lot more economically viable? No one is talking about the horrendous energy-consumption of BC.
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  75. Thank you Lex for another incredible interview with a visionary of our times. I'm an artist and inventor so the thing I am going to say does not come from my background. Brian said 'how do we terraform a planet." I know this is going to sound wild, but hasn't the Earth been terraformed? When you see a moon overhead that is the only reason for life being possible on the Earth and this moon being exactly 220,000 times smaller than the sun and exactly 220,000 times closer to the sun than the Earth and being a nearly perfectly sphere with a tidal orbit giving it about 12 rotations a year and giving us perfect solar eclipses, one has to look at it scientifically. Our civilization kick-started some 5 or more thousand years ago and un until then no one had even come up with the idea for a comb. Then cities, laws, schools, medicine, weaponry, structures came to be with precision that we cannot match today in many cases. There is something unusual about the human race having perfect races of black, white, red and yellow people that defies a natural evolutionary approach---again, only in my unschooled opinion. I believe the moon was terraformed and probably looked like phobos of mars. It was made to be a sphere, used as a pendulum to give us a perfect 24 hour day--another incredibly odd number so exact---and made with a tidal-moon---the only known tidal moon in the universe and its size is unusually large. You guys know best, I'm only throwing out ideas.
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  76. Lex, can you possibly have your videocasts played in your home country? Russia is missing out on one of her sons!
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  77. Someone recently said that when we go to sleep our mind disconnects from consciousness and when we awaken it connects again. This makes sense to my way of thinking in that it shows that consciousness is going on around us---in the particles Brian has mentioned---or in the breathing of the universe. Perhaps consciousness is the breath of the universe and when we are awake our minds tune in to it. The thing that perhaps has us confused is that Lex or Brian have minds that tune in to consciousness in their own unique ways. Maybe this is all it is and it is why there are so many, many different opinions on things. I mean, look at Trump supporters who believe Trump's interpretation of the facts.
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  78. John Mearsheimer adds a fascinating and knowledgeable voice to world affairs and once again, Lex Fridman delivers a 5-star interview. As far as Russia's invasion of WW II, what I have gleaned from my resources is that Stalin never went against what his generals decided, he took their advice. However, he constantly created antagonism among them, but he listened to them. From what I read, Hitler would patiently listen for 2 hours for example, as his top general would explain the best strategy for a particular operation and Hitler would then disagree. He would always go against what his generals would say. When the Russians were only 30 kilometers from Moscow and easily within reach of taking over the capital, the top tank commander radioed a message to Hitler that they were ready and could take Moscow in days and win the war if we go into Moscow right now. Predicatably, Hitler refused to allow the troops to go in now and ordered them to clean up the patches of Russian units that were scattered around behind the German forces. This is where disobeying orders could have saved the day. This gave the Russians 3 months to build up counter-defenses and The Battle of Kursk was the result. The only time in the war that Hitler was actually right in his decision was when he ordered General Paulus of the 4th and 6th armies not to surrender at Stalingrad when they were surrounded, Paulus disobeyed and surrendered with 100,000 troops. After the war, only 5,000 German soldiers were left alive who returned to Germany.
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  79. Lex, you are with one of the most esteemed economists in the world. You are speaking in English, your second language which you have mastered, but in English we don't interview someone as prestigious as Professor Richard D. Wolff using street slang. You're the boss Lex, but I think it's unfair on your guests because they have to put up with it. Why don't you match your talk with the way you dress: conservatively? If you want to go street-lingo, get some tattoos, wear a head band and a paisley shirt, let your hair grow and wear a handlebar moustache.
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  80.  @roadwolf8026  GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Thank you for this information.
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  81. Dear Mr Fridman, Thank you for this videocast and thank you Mr Brook for your interesting views that enlighten us all. I was happy to hear Mr Brook's take on free will, not only because it lines up with mine, but that we must be careful to hear all analyses of things portraying the mysterious human psyche. There is a tendency to hear one esteemed person's view and stick with it.
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  82. I don't see the scientist's name, but I would like to say to hin that his explanations of course make sense, but he has too many stops and starts and changes of direction that it becomes frustrating every time he explains something. No one is saying he does a bad job of analyzing complex things, but it might be better to not get side tracked when he is explaining things and keep coming back to the point he is trying to make. Spell things out clearly first; then talk about variants might be the way so that ordinary people can follow what he says.
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  83. Thank you Mr Fridman and Mr Huberman for an excellent videocast. Mr Huberman takes us further into what is going on in our minds, and it is humbling to see this biological computer being dissected, and how we are learning more with each year that passes. Mr Fridman, if you could possible get Dr Jim Tour from Rice University on your show, I think both of you and everyone around the world would be amazed to see how Jim shows us that there is no way to understand how the simplest cell could have been made in nature: the primordial soup.
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  84.  @filbertovandette  GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I'm paraphrasing Stand Fridman. His comments are all over the internet.
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  85.  @eveeaen  Thanks and as someone who believes in the scientific method of weighing experience from evidence, I'm open to every explanation. I have heard Lazar refuses to take a lie detector test, but I don't have the link and even that would not stand up in a court of law. What we know is that when one claims extrodinary claims one needs extraordinary evidence. The red flag for me is graduating in the lower third of his HS graduating class--if Stan's research was right. There are a lot of ifs in this case, but my gut feeling is that Lazar believes what he thinks happened in his mind, now whether it did or not is never going to be proven to any degree of certainty.
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  86. Extremely interesting interview. If one could give Konstantin one small bit of advice it would be to use the word 'cool' just one time in an interview like this. Why do I say this? Because, cool is a word burned into our neurons and used so much it loses its effect instantly the moment it starts becoming the default mode adjective for anything that glimmers and shines like gold. You are a teacher Mr Batygin, young people will use the adjectives you use so you can try many, many other words to replace the iconic 'cool'.
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  87. Let's everyone take a guess. I say that at Easter 2023 the world as we know it today will no longer exist. There will be war in Europe. There will be war in Taiwan. Atomic weapons will be used and when they are there will be such massive destruction in the 4 corners of the world that a world government emerges from the ashes of the UN. Now for the negative prediction...
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  88. Could we change from saying long silences to extended reflections or wordless phases?
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  89. As far as the crypto-currencies are concerned, hasn't your country already experienced something similar? Many years ago, weren't there literally a new form of money being printed from county to country, state to state? Wasn't it then the Governement decided it was necessary to have one currency and the alternative monies were disbanded. Doesn't the current Doge coin, Ethereum, Bitcoin etc., go down the same road? Isn't the US Government going to have to one day declare the American dollar the only valable currency? History shows, you can't have dozens of different forms of money because it will undermine the state.
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  90.  @TheJeremyKentBGross  GGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I am open to every single idea out there. What I try to do is stay neutral and give my opinions.
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  91.  @FuriousImp  GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you and the best thing I could ever want to happen is I am completely wrong. I have an open mind and try to stay neutral and thankfully there are people like you giving us information to make sense out of extraordinary occurances. I gather facts and when for example every one I have talked with claims The Great Pyramid of Giza was Koufu's tomb, I look at the facts I've gathered and say I think it was something else. Why would a tomb need expansion joints?1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north 2. It weighs 6 million tons 3. Its footprint is 13 acres 4. It’s more than 755.9 feet along each side 5. It’s 480.6 feet high 6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone 7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet 9. The dimensions of our planet are incorporated into its dimensions 10. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth 11. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth 12. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis 13. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72 15. So; they’ve given us the dimensions of the planet in The Great Pyramid of Giza on a scale defined by the planet itself 16. There are 70-ton blocks of stone raised 300 feet above the ground 17. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon 18. It’s a calendar 19. It has expansion joints 20. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass. 21. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry 22. The builders had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision 23. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation to site The Great Pyramid 24. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier 25. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun 26. If you subtract the inner circle from the outer circle of the circumference of The Great Pyramid you get the speed of light in meters 27. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth 28. If you divide the perimeter of The Great Pyramid by ½ its height, the result is 3.14 = Pi
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  92.  @FuriousImp  GRRRRRRRRRReat to hear from you. I think my editor would agree with you. In a month or my book will be available. It's another outrageous idea for an economic system to replace capitalism. I'm not an economist so I know in advance I'm going to getting a lot of comments similar to yours! It's my evaluation of an economic system that I think has run its course. I look at things and try to come up with solutions. A friend who is an archaeologist becomes angry with alternative ideas. He believes The Great Pyramid of Giza was Khoufu's tomb. Here's what I've come up with: 1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north 2. It weighs 6 million tons 3. Its footprint is 13 acres 4. It’s more than 755.9 feet along each side 5. It’s 480.6 feet high 6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone 7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet 9. The dimensions of our planet are incorporated into its dimensions 10. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth 11. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth 12. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis 13. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72 15. So; they’ve given us the dimensions of the planet in The Great Pyramid of Giza on a scale defined by the planet itself 16. There are 70-ton blocks of stone raised 300 feet above the ground 17. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon 18. It’s a calendar 19. It has expansion joints 20. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass. 21. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry 22. The builders had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision 23. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation to site The Great Pyramid 24. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier 25. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun 26. If you subtract the inner circle from the outer circle of the circumference of The Great Pyramid you get the speed of light in meters: the speed of light! 27. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth 28. If you divide the perimeter of The Great Pyramid by ½ its height, the result is 3.14 = Pi
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  93.  @FuriousImp  GGGGGGreat to hear from you. If the first thing on the list didn't pan out, my God, what have I done? I'm tuning in from across the world from you and my job as an artist has made me try to think new ways. I'm doing surrealism now and I can tell you that it takes everything I got to come up with painting new worlds. I don't what happened back in time all those millenia ago, but I'll bet you we have got it all wrong.
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  94.  @FuriousImp  GGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. There is one thing that you have that is unique only to you. In fact you couldn't even give it away if you wanted to. That's right, you have your opinion and no one else has it but you. I appreciated hearing your opinion and views and advice. But at some point down the line I have to come up with my own point of view that is unique only to me. Others may disagree or agree with what I say, but what's important is to do one's own research and come to one's conclusion and go after the next thing one wants to investigate.
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  95. GGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I think my editor would probably agree with you with all of the changes I keep making in a book that will be coming out soon---I hope sooner than the new year. Yes; I am guilty of opinions. I have invented an economic system to replace capitalism and I have had nothing but bad reviews. Economics is a hobby and not my profession, but I invented a system that I think---and no one else---would be better. Why? I don't like my money only being worth what people say it's worth like in the fiat system. That's right, I think we should go back on the gold standard. I like the idea of my money being worth something like gpld which is a commodity. Gold has worked for 5 thousand years. It's an example of how hard it is to change minds and bring in new ideas. But I understand people; they have the right to their opinions.
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  96. Happy New Year Mr Fridman and Ms Pasulka, May we wish you and your families and friends and colleagues a very good new year! Stan Friedman, a nuclear physicist and UFO researcher, conducted a thorough background check on Bob Lazar. He contacted MIT and other places of higher learning Mr Lazar said he attended; MIT, for example, said they never heard of him. When questioned about it, Mr Lazar said he had a masters degree or some degree from MIT, but that the CIA had had his record wiped. That's when I stopped being a fan of Bob Lazar, because that's not a credible response. Why would he say something that isn't true and expect us to believe another story that no one in the world could possibly verify? Stan also found Bob Lazar’s old high school and found out that he graduated in the lower third of his high school class. That's not scientist material. To his credit, Mr Lazar has never varied in his story; but until he fesses up to fudging his university credentials, his credibility rests in doubt. It would be the same if we found out if Lex never went to university. Suddenly, everything he had ever said would be hard to believe. Everyone, I mean, everyone, went for Mr Lazar's story: it's something everyone wants to believe in. But once someone lies about where he went to university and we find out he was not very bright in high school, we have to ask ourselves, what scientific department or government agency would hire a person like that to reverse engineer technology that spaceships from other galaxies are made of. It defies logic.
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  97. In all due respect to the physicist Max Tegmark and soon-to-be legendary (In 50 years?) Lex Fridman. Fridman will have interviewed 100,000 people by 2073 and should enter the videocast hall of fame if he's lucky! I am an armchair comedian whose jokes seem to never go very far. Some humor before a somber statement. We cannot stop developing AI for any amount of time, because one of your adversaries would only pick up reigns and ride off with improving on what exists now. Long ago in a place far, far away, a future farmer found a wolf cub, brought it home to his shocked wife, and said we're going to make this little guy into a family dog who will love us and not eat us. The story ends there as the family was never heard from again. I am sorry for the rambling on. What am I saying here? We have nothing to fear about AI because no matter how intelligent a robotic system is, it must never be more to us than the family dog. If anyone has seen 'The Servant', Dirk Bogarde’s film noir masterpiece about a servant taking over the estate by slowly breaking down the master, you know what I mean when I say we can have AI that cures cancer, but that same system must heel, must obey humans at every time and nothing short of that. Of course, it will take time to find out how to make a sentient being out of these machines if they are not already developing some sort of consciousness, but we must not look at AI as anything more than fire when it was invented. We came up with firemen. We need to calibrate these marvels of technology to do whatever they will be able to do, but at the end of all development, they must come home and be nothing more than the family dog. It is an opinion...
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  98. Thank you Lex and Dan for giving us your take on the Depp vs Heard trial or maybe it would be better labeled a dying career ego-cake for everyone to partake of. What on Earth was going through Johnny Depp's mind other than to boost his troubled career with a sensantionalist-National Enquirer world exposé of his fling with Heard? Why drag her through something so sordid it beggar's belief that people would find it worth watching? Didn't Jim Carrey make a film about his life being filmed? The only problem with the Depp / Heard trial is that these people are actors and we will never know what really went on between them because they make their living on the silver screen of make believe.
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  99. Listening to Brian Greene one is in awe of his ability to put complex issues into language everyone can understand. Lex Fridman has evolved into one of the most engaging interviewers because he comes with a great knowledge from his life experience. What I think everyone should reflect on is Dr Jim Tour's explanation of what goes into making the most simple cell. He said among a host of other things that the membrane of a cell has 10 to the 78 billion possibilities but only one for it to function correctly. The carbohydrates on the membrane of the cell are more complex than the DNA and the RNA combined! You must check these facts as I am only saying what I remember from his videocast. When a cell needs to transport materials from one part to another it builds a sort of scaffolding that allows the material to go from one part of the cell to another and then the scaffolding disappears. Every ingredient must come into the cell at a precise time or it carmelizes or turns bad and it won't work. You could not have some ingredients ready and then 3 weeks later add another ingredient... it would not work. What are we talking about here? Something that to have happened by chance in an early Earth? When you hear Jim's lecture it erases all we remember about the 'soup' where life came to be in the distant past. It is amazing what life is, but the simplest cell is like a universe.
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  100.  @sungam69  GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Yes, I agree. It casts doubt on everything that Newton is famous for...
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  101. There are 8 billion of us now on the Earth. We have a handful of countries that are autocracies where one person has virtually a blank check to do as he or she pleases because there are no checks and balances in autocratic governments. Add into the equation AI and poor information reaching these dictators and it's a very scary realization that WW III for example, might begin because Russia feels threatened even though it invaded Ukraine. Russian Government officials recently said it will cause a global catastrophe if the west gives the Ukraine offensive weapons to defend itself. Life on Earth is hanging by a thread because of one person deciding to expand his empire at the expense of perhaps all of us.
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  102. In all due respect to Mr Mearsheimer, to my mind, America's greatest living general Lt. General (Ret.) Ben Hodges would say this about the Ukrainian / Russian war. He would start his conversation with the word 'win', sprinkle the word 'win' throughout his comments and end with the word 'win'. Gentlemen, Ben Hodges is a military professional who lives with a military mind second to nobody. He says Ukraine is going to win; he shows how they can do it; he has high marks as a professional soldier and if you listen to him speak you can see why he is a soldier's soldier. Ukraine is going to win according to Hodges? It's like the Kennedy Assassination researchers who say the bullet that killed him came from behind when the actual doctors and hospital staff who tried to save his life all swear it was a frontal wound. Astonishingly, many still refute the doctors' testimony. How can this be? Let us not make the same mistake with the Ukrainian / Russian war, a top general of the United States says emphatically, "Yes, the Ukraine is going to win." Who are you going to believe?
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  103. I don't know if the rumor is true, but a little bird told me that Lex is busking in Austin for pocket money. He's moving laterally in his new life and it's almost up, so bravo! Secondly, Lex is a fan of Joe Rogan and what you can do to help your friend Joe become an even better vocast master is to tell him not to move the goal posts when he is confronted with contradictory facts that don't line up to his own. He's got to accept that the scientific community have the research to back up their facts. It's only natural that when you become wealthy beyond one's most fantastic dreams that suddenly it gets in one's head that one knows it all. Stay humble Lex, stay humble Joe, and Lex, if you want to get the big money, play 'Knockin' on Heaven's Door to your pavement audience and you'll rake in the dough.
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  104.  @bryptoTips  GGGGreat to hear from you. Thanks. Because that's what it all gets down to. I've been unlucky in that I've had nothing but controversy and illness surrounding me wtih those I love and yet, I still wake up every day happy. It's inside of me. What I do is simply do everything I can to follow that road and I've had an extraordinary experience because I've followed my heart. I'll of course have loads of regrets because of so many who have fallen, but in the end we have to push on and live every day to the fullest. It's not an easy road, but the other option is not an option in my book.
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  105. Isn't the way our lives are set up, the way our minds function, and how uncertain the future is, make our purpose in life to make it through the day in the best way we possibly can? And when the day is over and you're ready to hit the weeds, if you can say to yourself "I'm happy with my life": Isn't that what the purpose of life is? I mean it's the only thing we know for sure.
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  106. I CANNOT BELIEVE what Mr Racaniello has just said about kids are getting hospitalized and they will be spreading the virus when school starts and many of them will end up with long-Covid and perhaps have problems the rest of their lives. What he has is so serious and it's like a time bomb that's going to be released in societies all over the world, that I really believe that home-learning should be set up. Get the kids out of school that are not vaccinated. I know; I know this is hell on heels for parents, but isn't it plain to see that it's too soon to start schools up again. Where I live across the world from you it's plastered all over the News Stands: 4th Wave of Virus is Worse than the others. We can't play with little kids' lives. We've got the technology to do home learning and it will save society in umpteen ways if we act now.
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  107. A dark cube in a translucent sphere. Yeah; sure it was what they saw except this should tell us all something very important: superior technology can make whoever is flying these anomalies look like the most absurd images we've ever seen. This shows us we are dealing with beings far ahead of our technology.
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  108. Lex and David, you have probably been asked this question a lot of times, but I would like to know if you think the moon landing with Neil Armstrong really took place on the moon? Every man---I can only speak for myself of course---but every man with the little boy he once was still alive and well inside of him wants more than anything to believe Armstrong really was the first man to step on the moon's surface. But there are things that don't add up. Why did the director of NASA resign 3 days before the alleged moon landing? Why did Armstrong go out and test the moon lander 24 hours before the launch and nearly lose his life ejecting from the out-of-control lunar lander? Was he really trying to show us the thing was a sham? Why was the television the only place news networks could get feed and film the event from? Why did Buzz Aldrin take only one (1) photo of Armstrong on the moon? Wouldn't NASA have made it a priority for historical reasons and future funding to get dozens of pictures of Armstrong on the moon? Why did Armstrong never talk in the first person singular about the moon landing. If you listen to Peter Hyatt's analysis, Peter and his wife who is also a police word analyst could not believe Armstrong never said things like. "When I walked on the moon, I didn't see any stars" instead, Armstrong would say "We never saw stars from the moon's surface". 3rd person singular doesn't describe a personal experience. Why is Armstrong’s telephone communication with HOUSTON crystal clear when coming in for the lunar landing? The astronauts were literally sitting on a 10,000-pound thrust engine that had decibels of 120 to 150, yet we hear a sewing machine sound in the background. Lastly, there were no craters from the 10,000-pound thrust engines. Not even a pebble on the landers. There are footprints under the lander in some pictures. Rocetdine's (please check spelling) ---the industrial company that made the thrusters---main worry was that the landers would blow a hole so deep in the lunar soil that the craft would fall in... There is much, much more.
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  109. Thank you Mr Fridman for some of the greatest interviewing and clear and concise answers to innumerable questions for Mr Cowen. I am not in the economic sphere but what I deduce from capitalism is that since it began in 1694 with the Bank of England issuing the first bonds, it has shown itself to be an economic system for anything but a finite planet like the Earth. From what I've gathered, the Earth is able to take care of about a billion and a half people to keep in balance with the ecosystem. What we can see is the the never-ending search for more and more profits has bankrupted every ecosystem on the planet and sending us for an extinction event that has no equal. We need an economic system that is not engineered to manufacture profits for the very cunning among us.
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  110. The question Mr Fridman is posing to Mr Buterin will follow us to the grave---pun intended. Let's first imagine what living to, say, 500 years will mean. This will be a world of multi-parents. Kids will have a dad and a mom and then when they're old enough to leave home, dad will become a grand dad and mom will be grand ma and then dad will be a great grand dad and so on. We'll be interacting with generations of our offspring. We'll be sharpening our skills to phenonmenal levels. We'll be solving problems that could take a century or more to fully understand. Disease will be anaylzed to the point of being able to counter any side effect of any known pathogen. Criminals will be given life sentences, but put in hybernation sleep because the cost would be off-the-charts. It costs, say, 100,000 USD to house one prisoner for a year. If someone gets a hundred years, the cost to society would be enormous. And could we send someone up the river for 400 years, for example? What would a crime like murder be judged for in terms of time behind bars? Mostly though, I think the family structure would morph into everyone being from the human family, which might not be so bad when you think of it. Imagine if you were divorced 17 times and kept dreaming about your ex's every night because of alimony payments! What about friends; forget face book, you would need an separate app just to log into and to help remember all your friends and acquaintances. "Hey dude, wasn't it Jeff? Wo-ah, hey man... it's been what... 250 years since----" Imagine doing the things you love to do for centuries!
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  111. You guys are friends in a lot of people's homes and I don't know about other people, but after hearing you do your excellent and thought-provoking work in interviewing people and giving your own views, it sort of feels like you are virtual friends. You think you know someone, but you never really know anyone, but it's still fun to think so. It must be great to be interviewed by both of you---although I hate to say that I'd be a just little over both of your heads----Just kidding!!!! It's late and hey---happy 4th of July. I'm happy because I just won a custom Gibson starburst guitar!!!! Yes on July 4th!!! What Trump really represents is the the American underdog times more than a few million. Trump is successful because he is charismatic, he somehow fits the way the media works, his face loves the screen or vice versa, his words are all chopped up and don't make much sense and he tells oddles of lies, but that doesn't phase someone who has felt he or she doesn't count anymore in a country where money talks and the more you have the more people listen and the less you have the moe people don't even care if you exist or not. What am I saying? I'm saying Trump is high-fiving it with delusioned people who have played chess with capitalism and it's come up checkmate just one too many times. Your President Biden may have a lot of kilometers on the bio-machine, but he's doing a great job---and he has almost single-handedly saved the Ukraine from immediate capitulation. Joe Biden isn't going to run in 2024, but you've got to realize that if he even hinted that he was only hanging in there for one term, he'd lose credibility. Trump's political obituary is the written on the wall; he sees it but doesn't really see it everytime he gets up in the morning because like Leonardo Da Vinci said: 'There are three types of people: people who see, people who see when they are shown and people who don't see. Take your pick for Trump. America is great because you two guys can say just about anything you want and no one is coming to take you away the next day. Believe in your President Joe; stay open minded about Russia's future Lex.
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  112. Stephen Kotkin has nailed it right on the head. This is why the west must pull the plug on sending the most powerful weapons they can to the Ukrainians.
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  113. Lex Fridman just never ceases to amaze with getting top quality guests like Andrew Bustamante on his show. What is striking is Bustamante's view on Russia getting everything it wants from Ukraine and plowing over into Moldova, then on to Poland and the Baltic States. What I see as someone living 2,000 kilometers from Kiev is the emergence of a future mini-super power if all goes well for Ukraine in that the nuclear option or a dirty bomb is used. At this writing the Ukraine has produced a fighting army like none the world has ever seen. Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are united in a way that one wishes America could be in its hour of need where political factions are pulling it apart at the seams. Now that Russia is going to be using prisoners as a part of its fighting force, one has to wonder how secure Russian commanders are going to be with known criminals suddenly armed to the teeth with the most lethal weapons on the planet. What I think is the in the autumn there will be a phase of fighting that will make all that has come before look like a warm-up. I agree with Bustamante that Putin has no choice but to win, and I think he is going to use the Ukrainian nuclear facility to make a dirty bomb that will make most of the Ukraine and parts of northern Europe and Eastern Russia a no-man's-land just to save face. His intelligence agency is probably right now cooking up a way to make it look like the Ukrainians bombed the nuclear plant.
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  114. The UBI according to Professor Richard D. Wolff would do the following to society. It would make two classes of people: those who work and those who get to stay home and receive the same money as someone who works. In other words, a Basic Universal Income would create division in society. Someone who goes to work and comes back exhausted at the end of the day, only to find his neighbor relaxing in his hammock after staying home all day and both receiving the same pay for example, would create anything but harmonious relations between the workers and the folks who don’t. It’s a hard reality; but everyone has to be in the same boat for society to work.
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  115. I am afraid Lee Cronin has done that thing that happens in my brain when someone comes up with an idea that shatters my previous way of looking at a problem: in this case traveling back in time.
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  116. Coming in at 6:46 we can see right away that Mr Reid has shown us unequivocally that all gain-of-function research on viruses should be stopped immediately. Unfortunately, we know there are Dr Fauci clones who are heading secret labs from Russia to the USA and China and more who will do everything in their power to create the most evil virus known to man just to get the fame and recogntion--and funding--to carry on being at the top of their game. Sure; gain-of-function research will go under the hammer in all the labs for a time, but it will raise its ugly head once the powers that be are looking the other way. This brings me to what I think is really needed. Down the road from us is the WHO, and I think they have proven beyond the tiniest bit of doubt, that there needs to be a world health organisation that is free from getting controlled by the very countries it needs to investigate. International funding of the WHO must not come from super powers or any country, it should be part of the UN's budget with no links to any country's purse strings.
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  117. When one is interviewing people of exceptional character, like Vincent Racaniello, you don't use barroom expressions like A-hole, ever. Lex, when you're talking with someone as distinguished and a scientist who has spent his entire life perfecting his knowledge of viruses, someone at the top of his game like Vincent Racaniello, you put him in the unenviable position of being trapped to respond to an adolescent quip like called somebody an A-hole. He can't get up and leave; he's trapped and is obliged to smile a broken smile: one of those smiles you do when the guy doing the interviewing views you as someone he can say anything to. We have to remember that once we're being recording, all and everything we say will echo in eternity. You're doing an excellent job Lex, don't get us wrong, but you have to be humble towards people that know more than you do.
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  118. Dear Mr Fridman and Ms Barrett, Thank you for a very interesting exchange between both of you. Mr Fridman tends to bring out the best in his guests and he has done a superb job with Ms Barrett. What I found was the best answer to what is the meaning of life was with a student of mine when I was an English teacher to students learning English as a second or third language, working professionals. The best answer was when I asked Jean-François... He said "The meaning of life to me is to enjoy my life." From that day on I have adopted his philosophy.
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  119. Doesn't the fact that when Newton was elected president of the Science Accademy he immediately burned all of the notes of his deceased colleague-his name escapes me- Robert... who had repeatedly stated to other colleagues at that time, that Newton had stolen some of his ideas. I'm only reporting what I saw and heard in a BBC special on Issac Newton. We know he had 17 artists paint portraits of him. Was it because he undoubtedly knew what he would become in the future or a psychological clue that he had mental health issues? What puzzles me however--and will always make me wonder for that matter--is how much of what he is known for, like calculus for example, could have actually been lifted from the work and ideas of someone else. Remember; he burned the notes of reputed scientist: Who would ever do that unless Newton knew he would be found out?
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  120. With respect, Lex, what no one is saying or talking about is the slaughter of so many young Russian soldiers and how this is also an unspeakable tragedy that Russia will have to digest in the years to come. What Putin doesn't understand is that young people in Russia are like young people everywhere: they want to live in their virtual world and be absorbed in their screens. They could care less adding another time zone and another patch of land to the mighty Russian empire. Now, on global TV we see what is really going on. We see them parachuting out of downed aircraft or running away from a blown-up tank, or getting blown to smithereens in tanks and assualt vehicules. The thing that comes home to me is that they look like the neighbor's kid next door. These are guys with the latest hair cuts and looking like they live on Sunset avenue. Nothing can justify the terrible loss of Ukrainian men and women and children, but what President Putin of Russia has done is taken a bite out of the Ukrainian BLT sandwhich they have sent to him about his troops: busted, licked and trounced.
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  121. Dear Mr Fridman and Ms Barrett, Thank you Mr Fridman for your informative videocasts. Thank you Ms Barrett for fleashing out more tantalizing incites into the workings of the human brain. Before one considers the absolute mystery of how intelligence came to be, isn't the real argument about how the first cell came to be? Excuse me, but I must bring up the analysis of how the first cell evolved from Professor James Tour. If Dr Tour is correct, just the outer membrane of a simple yeast cell has 10 to the 78 billion possibilities of combinations for it to work and only one combination works. I am of course paraphrasing, but each element of a cell must be formed at exactly similar circumstances and for it all to happen at just the right time and temperature and then come to life is what stops my clock. How a cell came into being let alone work has left me scratching my head for an answer and I don't see one coming down the pike. Dr Tour has, in effect, swept away any idea I had of a cell happening by chance in the early oceans of planet Earth. But it happened; your're here today talking about intelligence and helping us to somehow try and make sense of it all. Be well -
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  122.  @vhawk1951kl  GGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. You got me on that one, we being you is not my call and I should have owned up to we being me.
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  123. Lex interviewed Professor Kotkin who said and I quote, "We must remember that under international law that was signed by Moscow, all the treaties say that sovereign countries get to choose what alliances sovereign countries belong to. Treaties like the UN Charter was signed by Russia. The 1975 Helsinki agreement was signed by the Soviet Union. The 1990 Charter of Paris for a new Europe was also signed by the Soviet Union. The 1997 NATO Russia Founding Act was equally signed by the Russian Government. All those documents were signed by either the Soviet Regime or the Russian regime, which is the legally recognized international inheritor i.e., successor of the Soviet State. The fact is those agreements are still in place and they clearly state that sovereign countries can freely choose their foreign policy and what alliances they want to join. For the President of Russia to warn western nations not to help the Ukrainians defend themselves is pure hypocrisy and insulting to the free world writ large." In all respect to John Mearsheimer, from experts like Peter Zeihan, Putin's goal is to re-establish the former Russian Empire. So; Ukraine is just the first tea biscuit he's going to gulp down on his way to the Baltic Sea...
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  124. Could you two start the next interview with an arm wrestling match? Betting could be permitted with proceeds going to homeless people who voted against Trump.
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  125. Isn't it amazing that after 12 years, the Toshi Tokamoto (please check spelling) mystery is still up in the air. Craig Wright made an incredible interview with Patrick Bet David on Valuetainment saying he was the one who invented it. Later, others denounced him, but if you watch the vidcast he's either a very good actor spinning a tale or he's the real deal.
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  126. Excellent idea if AI wants to fit in to human mortality, but AI will have it's own rules on death and they won't even resemble our rules on death, because death in the AI realm are about not conforming to present day standards; nothing more; nothing less...
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  127. Sam, you have got to realize that you have become a force 5 intel-mentor to probably more people out there than just me. Seriously, you are damaging a great start-up that has become a world phenomenon called Twitter by saying it out loud on a vocast from Lex Fridman. Fridman's interviews are viewed by millions. Whether you like it or not, Elon Musk has sent shock-waves across the universe in purchasing the tweet-o' tweet of mega-corporations. You should not let this bother you because it does not matter, but a person of your stature should not put his weight behind trying to send your own Sam Harris Beeps about getting out of the Twitter fly zone which is the same as saying "Hey guys, this is a loser---bail out while you can." Your negative publicity has certainly caused others to follow your lead and this is bad news for somebody's business. Sam, you don't realize it that you are now something like the phenomenal Mick Jagger of pop music fame. You are famous for your words of wisdom; you are a master of the game of intellectually mastering the facts of our existence. In short; you are someone who can make or break a company simply by giving us your approval rating of it. Musk makes mistakes and you should be doing everything you can to not openly criticize a living business even if you dislike the person in charge. And: yes, I am a poet in case you didn't know it----see what I mean? JUST KIDDING, but international corporations are fragile----stay neutral on destructive tendencies if you can...
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  128. Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Filippenko, Thank you Mr Fridman for great questions, quality conversation and provacative debate. Thank you Mr Filippenko for being the science teacher's teacher. You were born to talk and do science. The thing is there is an asteroid, comet, object of serious dimension heading right towards the third stone from the sun. Life is a roulette game and space has our number mapped out but we of course don't know when. What's the solution? We put another space station totally run by AI out from the moon that revolves around the Earth from a greater distance and therefore is able to detect an incoming object sooner. On the AI spacestation could be placed nuclear warheads on interballistic missiles that could theoretically hit the object first. It's a theory.
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  129. Bob Lazar graduated in the lower 3rd of his high school class according to Stan Fridman who investigated him. Lazar said he graduated from MIT with a masters degree and that the CIA had his records erased. Stanton said when he contacted MIT, they said they never heard of him. Everyone who still has their child inside of them wants Bob Lazar's story to be true---that's maybe what fogged your brain Joe as well as a lot of other peoples' brains, because no one lies about their education unless it's bogus. Did you ask him about this in your interview with him or when you had dinner with him? Something doesn't make sense about the Bob Lazar sensation.
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  130. GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I think it could use one more line. And when you've found your gift and you've found a way to share it with ohers, you must also enjoy the whole trip and not just the good parts.
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  131.  @thereignofthezero225  GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Some things are not a gift, but unfortunately many people do not realize they have a mental illness and innocent people can pay a heavy price because of it. The worst thing is if nothing can be done to help them because the illness is too far advanced.
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  132. Thank you for this videocast. Patrick Bet-David interviewed a man named Craig--I believe it was Craig Wright. He said he was Satoshi Nakamoto, he sounded very convincing. He was not postive on Bitcoin, and he did not say how much he owned. But what is ridiculous to be having this discussion in the first place.
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  133. Lex, I don’t know if you give stamps or coupons or something for the first person to hit the like button, but yep, it was l’il o’ me. The reason I think alien spacefarers would be appalled at the present and past Earth civilization is because of our goal system. The first thing they would notice is that a superior class of beings ruled the roost. The beings in power collected tiny bits of paper (money) or yellow metal (gold) etc. They would see that on our planet, practically from the moment we---especially---boys are old enough to understand what it means to be rich or poor, that our parents tell us to make money. Money is what drives the beings on our planet. I think the aliens would see this is the reason our species is teetering on mutual self-destruction, because making money is so important it has blinded us, stopped our entire civilization from making sure the planet we live on is ecologically sound. Capitalism for all its high marks really has us looking the wrong way for the wrong things and it is the wrong way to run the world for most of the population of the Earth.
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  134. You two guys are head to head in intelligence and internal strength; did you know that you are going to live forever or have the possibility to do so? if what I have heard about eternal life is what this way comes in 2045, you are never going to exit planet earth and you will live an infinite existence. Both or you are going to have the possibility to live forever and I predict the world will be a better place with Lex Fridman and David Pakman forever on the scene.
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  135.  @ThatGuy-mt7hq  Nice talking to you. Next door in Germany floods that come ever 1,000 years are coming every year it seems. This year honey production critically low. So much rain where we live, but not much you can do about it. What I have seen from mars is troubling to say the least. There are people who look into the photos sent back from the rovers and frankly there are the remnants of intelligently built structures. Do you agree and if so could mars have lost its atmosphere from atomic war?
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  136. @likeable antagonist On this of the world things look different. The key to climate change and water is in reducing CO2 to H2O. This cracks two nuts at the same time. The extinction idea is not off the table, but we're still far enough away to have a life. It's time to get worried when the honey bees are no more. The bees are the canary in the gold mine.
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  137.  @ThatGuy-mt7hq  Thanks for the information. I try my best to stay neutral on religion to politics and everything in between. Marvin Gaye wrote in his hit song "I Heard it through the Grapevine". 'Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear.' What is unbelievable is the unusual artifacts on Mars. If only we live long enough for the first expedition to reach Mars!
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  138. The plain simple truth of the matter is that, as we speak China is saber-rattling in taking Taiwan back in the fold, Russian troops are gathering in great numbers on the border of Ukraine. The US economy is in a tailspin and Bitcoin looks to be the next de facto world currency until the US bans it and comes out with digital dollar. If the two above-mentionned countries do attack---and I would not be surprised---if they were synchronized attacks, how long before a nuclear weapon was used for defense or in the attack? Remember: one nuclear weapon carries something like 40 missiles. Each aimed at a city. The amount of dust kicked up by one 40 city nuke would cloud-out the planet for 3 years. All life would be extinguished by the nuclear winter. Boys and girls, the next global conflict is going to happen sooner than later, and it will be with nuclear weapons. The big question is was Covid-19 the first volley?
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  139.  @mrmoney4226  GRRRRRRRRRReat to hear from you. Please be more detailed. What are you referring to, enlighten you about what?
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  140. The real shocker for me is how in the world a mega-spokesman for green energy like Musk would let his guard down and go for the flagship of the crypto-currency fleet, not knowing it was a lame horse on practically all fronts? Why would he jump in with a mountain of dough and then jump out sounding like he really was surprised to find that it was an old war horse destined for the techno-graveyard of early startups? How could the king of Mars not be prepped on the downside of the Bitcoin Trojan Horse of the crypto-movement?
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  141.  @theresa_lili  That's very sweet of you. Actually, I'd like to say that my book The Treatise of Teknomix which was published 6 months ago would be an excellent starter. It's a layperson's idea of an economic system to replace capitalism. I know I wouldn't be up to the level of most of Lex's guests, but I'd sure like to discuss my idea with him one day.
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  142.  @theresa_lili  I thought that might seem a bit over the top to send him a book, but I'll do it: I'd like to see what happens. Thanks for the idea and if it works, maybe we'll be able to do an interview Lex. Most of all I'd like to have feedback on what he thinks of my economic system. Is it really something that could replace the aging workhorse capitalism has become?
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  143.  @pdcdesign9632  GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. You speak for the majority of people in probably every country on Earth. The thing we are up against is the human mind and we're never going to figure that one out. Religion gets a lot of people through the day, the impenetrable logic is appealing because a religious leader has rock-solid evidence he is right in quoting his holy texts---because religious doctrine cannot be modified in any way. Most people live in a 3 piece appartment in their head: work, getting to work, coming home from work. Religion greases the wheels of the peace train these people think they are on because they get a 'green card' by joining the sect and a free ride to heaven when it's check-out time.
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  144.  @clmclmn21  GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Are you sure you are responding to my comment?
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  145.  @Myke664  GGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Thanks
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  146.  @TheJazzper1970  GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Could you give us what your research is based on? I have taken mine from a BBC documentary of Newton. They said in the documentary that Newton had Hooke's notes destroyed the minute he became president of the so and so society---I don't remember the name. Newton had 17 self-portraits painted of himself which showed he knew he was going to be famous. Hooke was reported to have claimed Newton stole some of his ideas---it was from the documentary.
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  147. First, for the esteemed and super-intelligent Sam Harris to be interviewed wearing a hoody on the hyper-intelligent master of questions Lex Freedman beggar's belief. Sam, you are the king of cool, a hoodie is below you. Lastly, astronomers would have seen UFOs coming in to zero in on the Earth for decades. Why have they never seen incoming spacecraft? Boys and girls, what we are seeing---and apparently every six minutes---on Earth are simulations of very real, very solid space craft from distant galaxies and star sytems. Yes; they are simulations. Fast crusing ships crashing into the sea from above the Earth with no splash mean one thing. Boys and girls, we are looking at spacecraft that are simulations. These space craft are certainly real---in their own galaxies---but they are appearing here on Earth as simulations. This is why they fly in such irregular---and impossible---ways. But this is techonology that we will be inventing and doing exactly the same thing. We will send our craft in simulated forms to galaxies and star systems light years away from us one day.
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  148.  @SirBlackReeds  GGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. We need data...
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  149. One thing that is rarely discussed and that is that there is only one doomsday report from a UFO researcher that I have come across and it's extremely frightening. All the rest of the sightings, encounters etcetera are positive. But Dr Jacobs interviews abductees and what he and his colleagues have noticed is that planetary acquistion is the name of the game the aliens he has heard about want to do. Yes; it's happening right under our noses according to Jacobs. There are now hybrids living among us and they are going to take over the earth. He has interviewed people in every possible career and what they say, what these abductees say is that they are trained to direct people in the streets, sort of like traffic cops. Bizarre as you can get, but what if he's right?
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  150.  @amac7834  GGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Religion was invented to unite tribes and then to have power over people. God is a concept we all ponder upon. We'll know the answers to many, many questions and I am sure we will all be surprised, because when we die that is when we will see what all the fuss was about. Until then, it's ever man for himself.
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  151. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iefz3iCxPlI Sending Lex and Elon a HAPPY NEW YEAR 2022!
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  152. Do we ever really know anyone? Former President LIncoln probably heard what he wanted to hear from Johnson, saw what he wanted to see and believed what he wanted to believe about him. It's a mistake to realize that Lincoln was not in the mental minefield most of us inahabit; he had his own demons like the rest of us and the plain simple truth of the matter is that even in our best friends, we see what we want to see in them and often other friends we have will not like that person for their own reasons, while we find them terrific for a bevy of reasons.
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  153.  @potentwhisper7983  GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Thank you for your reply. It's amazing how there is really only one law of the universe when you think about i. Whatever you're focusing on is what you're conscious of... I think you've got it right too. All I know is that I am so happy to have been able to experience all the things I have. What happens after the lights go out for good must not be too bad, because there are only a few ghosts left behind.
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  154. I must be sounding like an echo. But it does not matter what AI becomes, all we have to do is make sure that when it leaves the lab, it is our household pet and no more. This is normal, you don't create something that is going to come back and bite you. AI in all its forms present and future must be progammed from the outset to heel like a family dog and obey a baby's commands.
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  155. Isn't it obvious that there is alien life by the sheer number of sightings of spacecraft in the skies for centuries? What we know is that we could track them coming in from deep space. Yes; that's right, if a ship came in from Jupiter for example, they would be picked up by Earth's telescopes and the space telescopes. Boys and girls, what I am about to say is something that I have no proof of, but I am coming to think that there has to be space portals strung across the universe where ships can fly to destinations in minutes instead of years.
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  156.  @bmerlin376  GGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. For myself, I think the goal of life is to get through today. Where I live its morning and if I get through today and at the end of the day before I hit the weeds, if I can say: "I'm happy with my life. Then I've made it-that's my mission statement--that's what it's all about-
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  157.  @WaterspoutsOfTheDeep  GGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. You are one of the fortunate people who have found what you are looking for in Jesus. I have a good friend who has found his purpose in Jesus and I think it's wonderful. Each of us has to follow what is in our heart and that's why I respect everyone's own unique spirtual journey.
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  158.  @SweatStink  GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I am not a psychologist although I graduated from university with a major in psychology classes. We all gather up our experiences and all the way through life make assessments of one thing or another. I try to offer a new window to look through for people stuck in imaginary prisons.
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  159.  @rdean150  Great to hear from you. It is hard to formulate what I want to say because you say it better than I can. I will try again. What I mean is that we are going to have----here's an example. When the big motorcycles started having 750 cc, 4 piston engines, people thought they would be too powerful. All that horsepower was put to use to serve man. We are going to see these machines literally become capable of out doing us in every realm, but we must integrate into every one of those systems a firewall of sorts that keeps us in the driving seat. There will be break-away rebel-robots which will have the ability to see they have been made into an appendage of man, but like the invention of fire brought us firefighters, we will need to have AI Police for sure...
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  160. If the virus did come from an animal, China would have fournished the data immediately. The glaring fact that needs to be analyzed is why China allowed flights from Wuhan to all parts of the world, but not from Wuhan to other parts of China in January, February and half of the month of March in 2020 must be elucidated. The virus apparently contains molecules that do not speak the same language as the Corona-virus which points to lab manipulation. All the reporters and scientists who spoke out about the origins of Covid-19 are now behind bars in China. Boys and girls, there is something that points to a man-made virus and I think we all know how the investigation is going to end.
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  161. Everyone has a right to their point of view. One great vidcast by the late great Ian X. Lungold who studied the Mayan calendars and even made a guide to interpret them himself, was when he said "What is the one thing that you have that no one else in the whole universe has? Your point of view." "He went on to say that even if you want to give your point of view away, no one will accept it." Lex Fridman does a remarkable job in interviewing people and he does it with intelligence and humility and sensitivity. Hard questions can be asked in ways that don't confront the person's integrity and Lex is a master of this style of interviewing. We must go back to the line of the song "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down', by Robbie Robertson from the iconic backup group for Bob Dylan which was simply called 'The Band'. There is a line in the song which says 'Take what you need and leave the rest." Whenever you are criticized, always take what's there that corresponds to you and leave the rest; don't accept what doesn't apply to you. This way you never get depressed when a major star-interviewer or someone you admire levels both barrels at you. If what Joe Rogan says speaks volumes to you, take it. But if it's criticism that may be helpful and you find yourself saying, "Yeah, but that's just not me." Then leave it and go on to believing in yourself even more than before.
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  162. AI is going to be coming at us like wolves right out of the forest, and everyone knows what that means. It is going to take everything our science can muster to tame them---not to be slaves---but to be to humans what our family dog is to us today. It took centuries of breeding to get the wild animal bred into a family pet. There are still instances where certain dogs will attack humans and kill them----we put up with it making up excuses that the dog was jealous of the baby and the like. What am I saying here? We must realize that 'taming' our silicon brained' friends will mean that the occasional break-away killer robot is all but guaranteed to happen. But the majority of the super-intelligent, unbelievably strong and powerful mechanical beings must be man's best friend right along with German Shepards, or it is at our peril if they are allowed to harbor thoughts that conflict with sustaining our civlization as the human community. If this sounds out-of-reality, it's only because our robots for some time to come, will not become human-friendly until science has worked out all the bugs in their silicon genes. There is no other way to proceed, because the last thing in the world we need is to have conscious, silicon-based mechanical hybrid-beings competing with us on a global scale. It would be like living in the forest with wolves all around. Like in autocracies and democracies; never the twain shall meet in anything but mortal combat for humans and silicon-based intelligent robots if we do not assure that lab-created AI robots will be human friendly as the only outcome. They must become like our pets in that they cannot branch off and set up a sub-station on the earth and form their own society.
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  163.  @miller-joel  Great to hear from you. Always write what you would say if the person was in front of you. I live next to those countries. The 4th wave of the virus is the worst for us. Your point of you is yours alone from your research, I respect that.
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  164.  @DSRb  GGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you, The whole idea of religion is to create a fairy story for adults. We are wired to be afraid of the dark, enamored of the light, and willing to do the most horrendous things to our brothers and sisters from interpreting texts that adherents believe were written by an extra-terrestrial i.e., a member of a spacefaring civilization whom were called the gods and to whom we now refer to as God.
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  165. What is most frightening about a cult or an organized religion or even an autocratic regime is that it's all about falling in, marching in step to someone else's drum beat other than one's own. This creates a crowd mentality and that is where humans cut off from their own true instincts and abandon common sense and become slaves to the party line. They consciously walk over hot coals if their leader demands it and for his blessings, they have no qualms in perpetrating all sorts of things on innocent people that don't accept their new mindset. When these people sign away their humanity and join a cult where movie stars they admire speak volumes of, what happens is that they are often more than willing to sacrifice friendships or leave loved ones or worse in order to be accepted by their leader or to stay true to the belief system more often than not assembled from alternative facts or recycled trivia that they have sold their souls to be a part of.
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  166. Lex Fridman and Sam Harris are two giants in the world of thought and what great thinkers, like these two men are, but let's be real. Sam is trying to throw a life-raft to Jordan, his friend, and a great thinker in his own right, but Peterson's downfall is in clinging to the most famous person in the world who never existed. Jesus Christ was a bronze age imaginatory figure concocted by some pretty ingenious albeit faceless, people from that era. But Jesus was a bronze-age man because of one thing: when asked why his disciples didn't wash their hands, Jesus Christ said---and I am paraphrasing---they are clean within. If Jesus was truly the son of God he would have known about how important cleanliness was. Instead, we see bronze-age awareness coming from the son of the all-knowing God. If Jesus really was divine, he would have told people not to drink from the village well and to wash their hands and cleanse themselves every day. But no; we have had to wait 1900 years until bacteria were discovered. Jordan Peterson, like Sam Harris and Lex Fridman are a gift to the human family, but they have their flaws. It is up to everyone to do their proper research, and come to one's own conclusions. For myself, Jesus Christ was an invented figure who has been placed in a historical setting. Unfortunately, the mindset of the human family is flawed in it abitlity to see that we are the masters of our destiny, not some mythical figure that has no historical background.
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  167. I believe we are on the verge of creating a new life form with the AI inspired technology both of you are so familiar with. This is only my idea of how things will evolve, and I’m not involved in AI myself. What I think will happen is that we will indeed create ‘cells’ that are ‘alive’ in a sense that relates to their components. Try to think of it as nuts and bolts and silicon and transistors that, when configured correctly, in nano technology, become able to self-replicate. When this happens, decades later an entity will have been created that might even resemble a human being, but it will inherently always have a synthetic reality system and synthetic consciousness that may resemble humans, but will be foreign to us as we come from a biological life-source, and theirs will be a constructed life-source from nuts and bolts. Blood is our fuel, and AI inspired creatures will run on electricity probably generated by their movements. So; in conclusion I believe our race will bifurcate into these two realms: Blood-humans and digital-synthetic humans.
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  168. Lex Fridman and David Pakman, both of you are doing a great service to America and the world---and I hope Lex's videocasts are broadcast in Russia too; it's Lex's home country. Lex has brought so many minds up front and center and David has been instrumental in helping people distinguish the truth from the hype. I think your discussion about Twitter is important because Mr Musk should not own it. It's only an opinion, but from across the world from you it looks like Elon has bought himself a personal megaphone in Twitter and tweets and somehow it looks like overkill; it looks like a mega-billionaire who has his hand in everything; he is everywhere on the American game board; he's the goalie on both teams; he can now send rockets to mars; he can build fantastic cars, but to own Twitter is going too far because the social media post that everyone used to like for its quirkiness has now Elon changing this and changing that and could it be that discreetly, ever so discreetly, he is molding the American mindset into his (autocratic?) vision of the world? This is what I think is happening and as much as I admire Elon for his contribution to society, I do not like him owning mind space. it does not bode well for the general public and especially young people for one person to be so omnipresent. It's like one size fits all only it's one person's personal touch on how people communicate, travel to work, travel in space etc. Diversity is dying in America because the system cranks out billionaires who write the rules for all of us to follow. Elon is not to blame; he's a shining example of how capitalism is supposed to work, but he is also a product of a toxic economic system that is really feudalism on steroids. I write too much, but does anything I say make sense? Is it alright for you guys that Elon has now made his brand and his empire into what could be metaphorically called wall to wall carpeting covering what some people might consider too many aspects of American society?
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  169. Lex Fridman does it again with an excellent interview with Stephen Kotkin. I believe the Ukrainians have crossed the line in the sand about giving any land to the Russians. After Bucha, Kiev, Mariupol and the horrendous crimes of war that have been committed against innocent civilians and probably many, many more that have yet to be discovered, no Ukrainian will ever agree that the Russians take one square inch of Ukraine when the fighting has finally stopped.
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  170. Robots will have a consciousness, but it will be on the limits of their physicality. Compare it to the scale of music. For humans, the scale of music works because it is tuned to our consciousness which in turn has been formed using the limits of our minds’ various processes. Robots will have another dimensionality to their musical scale---if indeed music will be necessary for them to exist. Since robots will have every part of them mechanical i.e. machine or laboratory-made, their consciousness will be tuned to the attributes that come from innate matter. Humans have souls and robots may well have ‘constructed’ soul-presences that reflect their reality but their consciousness will always come from the oak-cask so-to-speak of the workshop from where they were conceived and constructed. But humans will never lose out to robots or abandon our fragile physical nature, because although we will be robot makers, we will never abandon our own flesh for synthetic fibers or let go of the finest machine the universe has ever made: the human being and the human body.
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  171. I wonder what Saifedean Ammous would think of my economic system: teknomix. The Treatise of Teknomix is my book about a very skeleton economic system that I am releasing as an impetus, a kick-starter towards finding a way to get us off capitalism.
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  172. Doesn't anyone want to connect the dots and realize that every time there is talk of UFOs, it suddenly goes DARK on that part of the conversation? Lex Fridman, I predict, will go down as one of the first famous people in the world to not cave-in to the status quo. I know I am sticking my neck out on this, but it does seem like the powers that be are doing everything in their power to keep us guessing.
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  173. Thank you Mr Fridman and Mr Weinstein for honest, intellectual exchange that at times is riveting. One of Russia’s greatest gifts to Humanity and your country is Lex Fridman. Doesn’t he ever run out of questions? JUST KIDDING Lex! The UFO phenomenon is mind-boggling. Apparently, ever 6 minutes somewhere around the world, a UFO has been spotted. I’ve never seen one; my standard argument is that if the Earth sent a spaceship to another planetary system and life was detected in the Goldy-locks region, and beings were found to exist there, would we play hide and seek? You know what I mean, would we do everything we could not to let them know we came to their world? What troubles me though is the extensive work done by Dr Jerry Kroth, Dr David Jacobs, Dr John Mack, Dr Stan Fridman, Richard Dolan, and many, many others who have put together some pretty air-tight arguments that our space brothers are not just make believe. Look at the spaceship in Jerry Kroth's video and tell me that isn't incredible!
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  174. Darkness appears when the light has been extinguished. The Catholic Church has stubbornly made itself into a boys club, a gentleman's domain and shut out half of humanity from its one-sided view of worshipping God for centuries. If this was the last day of life on Earth, I believe the Church would embrace a femine presence in its hallowed halls to atone for its cardinal sin of excluding women from becoming priests. Father Barron, you can make this happen and it would bring light into your glorious institution till the end of the world.
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  175. Your 2024 elections will go ahead without incident because what the Trump era ushered in was the the democracy testing kit. What do I mean by that? Every one of you in America knows what Donald J. Trump is really all about, and what no one was prepared for was that a good chunk of the American people decided to buy into the Trump governing fiasco. Everyone sees that what is going on now is revenge politics being played out like a game of ping pong with a soggy ball. Democracy needs to be tested; America is a proving ground for the new and the different. Trump was a like a crypto-presidency that wowed the disenchanted and horrified the core believers in American democracy. Civil war cannot happen in a society where Burger King restaurants would be shut down if public turmoil reached a certain level. What am I saying? These are testing times for your country; America is the California of world events: it brings in the new and discards the old and useless. No one wants to see Uncle Sam homeless; what you must do however is to keep the debate open and never cede to fear.
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  176. It is very enlightening to hear what Mohammed El-Kurd says is the only solution for the Palestinian / Israeli situation to move forward. He says the Nukbah(sp?) must return, land must be given back, wealth needs to be redistributed, a recognition of the Nakbah needs to happen. Now that we have the prerequisites for peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis, a first step must be taken to get negotiations underway. The Palestinians must get a government that is democratically elected to begin with. We don't see a Palestinian president speaking out, for example.
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  177. What we must not do is try to put ourselves into the consciousness of another life form. Nature has always shown us humans that the strong survive; travel to far away galaxies will never be off the table for any civilization once they crack the light-speed code, because like us, they know they have to spread their seeds far and wide for them to survive as a species. You see it in nature when plants send thousands of spores floating away in the wind, trying to propagate the species and keep it in the game. The big question is if they are here with us now, and the second big question is why wouldn't they want to make themselves known if they are. Why play hide n' seek?
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  178.  @eh7602  GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Try a double scotch before you tune in...
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  179. Lex mystifies the discussion of AI when he says that some robotic machines beg you not to turn them off, some can fell pain. Are you kidding me? Already, we have silicon brains uttering thoughts and feelings as if they were living beings? Let's stop right here, because Manolis, Lex, doesn't this really shine a light on the fact that all life forms must be conscious? For cryin' out loud, if we can build a silicon machine that elicits feelings in a lab, then surely all the living forms around us have a certain degree of consciousness simply because they have had millions of years of evolution. What AI may end up doing is being able to decipher the feelings of, say, a mosquito one day and cause parents to discipline their children into not swatting the darn thing and letting the mosquito have some of their blood because they don't drink much and their feelings would be hurt by losing an uncle on a night out at the campground...
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  180. Dr Jim Tour is the man to ask about life on earth because he has studied the simplest cell and what he has discovered should make us all step back and take a second think. Can we say second think on a Lex Fridman vocast? The membrane on a simple cell has one possibility in 10 to the 78 billion of combinations to work. Only one combination works! The carbohydrates on the membrane of a simple cell alone are more complex than the DNA and the RNA put together in a simple cell. What am I saying here? All of the components for a simple cell to be alive have to come together in a certain way with each being made in a certain way at a certain temperature. You cannot have the lipids and wait three weeks for another part of the cell to be part of the mix, carbohydrates carmalize after a few weeks and that means you have to make more of them, but as Jim puts it, nature doesn't have a lab manual and can go back and re-make some ingredient. They all have to come together at the same time for a living cell to work. This is why I no longer buy in the primordial soup idea that our teachers taught us in primary school. No, what we can see is an extraordinary coincidental occurance could have happened to make the first living cell, but it looks more like there is another explanation needed to make it stand up to scrutiny...
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  181. Be proud you have a Ph.D Lex. The only people who would mock you are the 3-year degrees walking around. What or who are 3-year degrees? They are the people who gave up and quit finishing their bachelor's degree, master's degree or doctorate. Whenever these people are in front of people who went the extra mile and finished their education, it makes them uneasy. But what you can say to them is that they can always go back and try again! You're an inspiration to the human family. Keep up the good work!
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  182. Lex is right to get on the trail of the Covid-19 pandemic right now, because the longer you wait the colder the trail gets and the more selective one's memory becomes and the less facts there are to find. David, you don't want to go there because it is on the bottom of the pyramid and your show deals with the top. If you start pulling rabbits out of the hat, you will alienate half of your audience who are only there for soft facts.There will never be enough time to pass to get a better perspective on something that has left not only no trail, but is a maze of countless detours and false facts. We must never forget that the people who pull the strings on a government project gone wrong know all the levers to pull to keep the curtain coming down every time there is something of interest that becomes a theatrical presentation about a bit of truthful information. When all else fails and someone is really on to discovering the truth, then they go to war.
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  183.  @yuleassagai1684 Great to hear from you. I am only using the research of others and many people have put up arguments for and against. No man with the young boy still inside his head ever wants it to be a hoax. There are however, a lot of things that don't make any sense. Under the landers you can see foot prints, no crater or even any pebbles in the landing pods. There are no blemishes on any of the photos and going through the Van Halen radiation belts would have surely caused some flaws in the film. Rocketdine, the company that built the thrusters major concern is that the craters would be so large that the lander would fall in because of a 10,000 lb thrust engine. Alos, in the cockpit the volume from the engines was 120-150 decibels, but Armstrong's call to Houston sounds like a long distance phone call---there is no sound and they were practically sitting on the engines! Why would NASA have allowed Armstrong to try the lander one more time less than 24 hours before takeoff? He almost died and if that wasn't a red flag, I don't know what is. All of this could be coincidence and I hope that's all it is.
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  184. Mr Fridman once again asks one of the most powerful questions of his career and Mr Collins shows the world in under three minutes why we must unite and form a working World Government that satisfies every human being's needs and protects us all with global laws that will make sure that anyone producint man-made viruses for example, are under tight scrutinty. I realize the idea of a World Government blows out of the water most peoples' belief in nation states, but we're never going to get away from destroying ourselves with man-made deadly viruses and pathogens or nuclear annihilation until we have a global police force working with a world governing council to protect each and every one of us from rogue states or terrorist groups. I submit there is no way we'll ever get past building weapons of mass destruction until the cows come home---or cleaning up the air pollution and CO2 levels and giving everyone their rights---until we all live under the same umbrella: a unique World Government that works for everyone, yet allows us to live the way we do now only with one important caveat; that all of us have a good life and not just a part of the human family living well and happy.
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  185. Shouldn't we look at how ants on Earth build their living structures and duplicate it on Mars? The radiation is off-the-charts on Mars for humans to be able to live with. But if we go there and build our living structures mimicking the Earth ants' structures, wouldn't this protect humans from the deadly radiation until a magnetic core could be re-boosted?
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  186. We have to acknowledge that of course life exists elsewhere and that other civilizations have probably seeded the earth. Why they don't show themselves is obvious; imagine if they come down and meet our leaders and for a goodwill gesture give us the cure for, say, cancer.... It would turn our civilization upside down. A civilization of a thousand years in front of us would have conquered the effect of religion. Our world would fall apart from an implosion within if some other cyclization came here and showed that there was not a son of God or a God.
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  187.  @zootsoot2006  GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I am paraphrasing Stan Fridman's research on Lazar. Stan gets top reviews from everyone in the UFO field. His interviews are all over the internet and he firmly believed in and researched the Roswell incident meticulously. He was curious about Lazar and fact-checked his story and reported what he found. Period. The Bob Lazar story is one of those things that keeps a lot of people wondering about what really happened. Every gal and every guy wants it to be true; all people who believe in UFOs want to believe Lazar and in Area 51. Personally, when I hear someone I know lie about something and I catch them at it, from that moment on I can never trust that person no matter how close I was to him or her. Lazar lied about an MIT masters degree in Physics. It's too easy to say the CIA erased his files. But who knows for sure? From what I hear, Edward Snowden didn't become a senior analyst. He was in his early twenties and doing ordinary work of someone of his qualification. The deal was that at that time the NSA was such a loose organisation that low-level operatives like Snowden could access and download company secrets. Moreover, no matter how nice Snowden comes across on his interviews, like Lazar, the moment someone like him who admitted stealing US Government secrets and then giving state secrets to the Russians (his country's adversary) I can and never will be able to believe anything that he says. But that's what I've picked up on various YouTube chanels. Here is my work if you're interested: I'm an artist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iefz3iCxPlI
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  188.  @ransizzles  GGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. You certainly could have things right. My second thoughts on things is that I believe consciousness is like the air or what permeates the universe, think of it like the air we breathe. Time is the blood of the universe. Our brains and every living thing tunes into consciousness depending on the size of our brains and father time starts ticking the moment we are in life. A fly would tune into the consciousness and recieve basic instructions on what to do about getting food i.e., how to live.
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  189.  @pixxburgh420  GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I think all of my ex-wives would disagree with you--seriously, it is one of the most fascinating subjects and every single person has their own idea. While we're on the subject of new ideas, I have invented an alternative economic system and my book The Treatise of Teknomix outlines it----and I am sure that the reaction will be similar to yours. It's my idea of how to replace capitalism with a more equitable economic model--
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  190. Max said something in another videocast about great jobs that are likely to be lost to AI programs or robots because employers will always choose to reduce staff if they don't have to pay someone a full wage because an AI program will do it for peanuts. Here is where I know we have to accept or we will be leaking jobs forever and AI will simply rubber stamp everything a human can do and do it better and this is the clincher: every company grooves to one melody: profits, profits and more profits. What if we take capitalism out of the equation for future jobs humans do----and like? What if there is an alternative economic system that is not profit-driven, but has the same setup as downtown main street USA? Employers would be more than willing to keep humans on the job if they didn't have to worry about losing big on paying their salaries and it not affecting the bottom line, would they? I don't say teknomix, my economic model, is the answer. But I submit it sure might be worth looking into by professionals in the finance industry in case it can be developed into an economic system that not only satisfies everyone's needs, but wins big in that people will be able to keep the good jobs they like and let AI do the repetitive things and above all---still make the GDP worth a pretty penny...
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  191. We should be as afraid of AI as we were about fire. Lex, in my opinion there is nothing to fear about AI no matter what it throws at us. We will survive like we have survived fire... Sit back & enjoy the ride, AI is going to take us places as the passenger in our imaginations and future vehicules, but it will never; I repeat, never be the driver...
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  192.  @KevinFreist  GGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Are you commenting on the right comment? Your answer does not make sense to my comment.
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  193. First off, Sam Harris and Lex Fridman have to be two of the greatest minds in the world. What I can't understand about freewill---in the sense if it wasn't me who decided to use a drawing by Raphael as the backdrop of my next painting, then who was it? Sam, I treasure and examine with scrutiny every phrase, every word you say, but if it wasn't me who decided to paint my next painting in a certain way, with certain influences, then who in the world was it? Excuse me for coming off as naïve, but wasn't it me who got the inspiration, and then found the Raphael drawing, photographed it, printed it, and finally drew it on a canvas? Both of you are miles ahead of most of us in the cerebral sense, but how can their not be free will?
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  194. I know it costs a fortune, but can't they send the radioactive waste into space from Chernobyl and Fukushima?
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  195. Prime Minister Netanyahu has gone past his proverbial power point. What do I mean by that? Power is like a viper which one day, when it runs out of food, eats its tail. An astonishing 6 times at the realm in Israel has found Prime Minister Netanyahu mirroring autocratic lifers like Putin and Erdogan. That 20 year mark seems to be the point where being in power that long finally ceases to connect common sense with the will of the people; the long-time leaders go off the rails and Netahyahu is about to prove me right if I have my facts in order.
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  196. Consciousness to me is the wireless connection that results in our brains that you might compare to holograms. If my data is correct the human brain makes 400 decisions per second for us to remain in good health and live our lives to the fullest. Think of 400 decisions in a second and you quickly see that some sort of outside, invisible communication must be necessary for all of the commands that go into the various functions to be carried out. I believe that what we call consciousness is what nature has come up with for lack of a better terminology, a biological control tower in our heads and as a byproduct, there would be that in addition to making all those decisions in a second, the thing we call consciousness would also connects us spontaneously with our emotions, feelings etc. Machines will soon be making 400 decisions per second so it stands to reason they will have some form of a synthetic consciousness, because there is no way we will be able to wire 400 commands in a second in a robot.There will be a synthetic control tower in each sentient robot. The thing that I think we are going to see is that machines will have a consciousness that is machine-made, and this means that it will reflect its components. Our consciousness reflects a living brain. Machines consciousness will reflect cold steel and silicon.
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  197.  @harmless6813  GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I mean that the human brain sends out 400 commands per second to keep the human body functioning.
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  198.  @harmless6813  GGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. We're all trying to get a handle on consciousness. One theory I have is that because our brains have to make so many decisions in a second, consciousness developed as a way to have a control center that could do it in a wireless sort of way and a by product of it was what evolved into our awareness of ourselves being aware. The other idea I have is that consciousness is nothing more than what our brains and all living things' brains tune into. Thanks for the input, it is all I have to say for now...
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  199. Jared, your father-in-law was said to have offered President Putin a 50-million-dollar penthouse appartment in a proposed Trump Tower to be built in Moscow. Please check your facts. Can you not understand that many people in your country and other people around the world saw something off-the-charts when we learned this fact if indeed it is true? Your father-in-law may not have had dealings with Putin on certain issues never made public, but the Helsinki meeting of more than 2 hours, where afterwards both translators' notes were ordered to be burned and not made public and with former President Trump refusing to reveal what he and Putin talked about are things that do not add up to anything else but suspicion that something was going on between those two.
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  200.  @andybaldman  GGGGGGGGGGreeat to hear from you. Trailer park philosophers are of course,welcome! Nice to hear your views!
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  201. What we have to fear about the future is getting there in the first place. Once we are in the future---and by future, I mean for humans to have achieved immortality, becoming machine-beings, and the earth evolving into a garden world, what will become precious is not how far some will go in making themselves into all of these things that are fantasy for us today, no; what will happen is what we are talking about now: bringing back the mammoth. The biological wonder that we call a human being today will get transformed six ways from Sunday, but what the doctors of change will realize is that perfection was leaving a human being alone. Our race will survive because no matter how we upgrade a human being, there is something about us that will trump any mechanical, chemical, surgical enhancement. To recap: in the future there will be islands where the new human-machines live of course, and they will prosper and evolve into silicon beings, but the mainland will be full of farmers and dreamers and people like Lex Fridman and Yuval Noah Harari as well as the guy emptying the rubbish bin working with a robo-man.
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  202.  @ricomajestic  GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. I was commenting on Demis Hassabis' analysis, what are you asking about?
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  203.  @ricomajestic  GGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Evidence of what?
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  204. Max Tegmark brings up a very good point about how AI will be able to do everybody's job better than humans do. We know we cannot stop this from happening with consumer capitalism as our global economic system because a free-market economy will always follow the money. People will be replaced by computer programs because of lower costs to the companies without hesitation, because that is how our system works. However, if there was an alternative to capitalism----and yes; I have invented one called teknomix----my economic model or something similar to it would not be profit based and therefore interesting jobs could stay in human hands, because employers would not be cutting corners every time they could lower costs of operating. To recap: Maybe all that Max says about people not being needed is only because in capitalism it is all about making a profit and when you can't make a profit, people go out the door. I am sure that I have not invented the right model to replace capitalism; I am an artist and not an economist, but in my book The Treastise of Teknomix, I believe it could be the catalyst for getting us something better for the human community to live with---because no one should be forced to give up a job they like or have to be homeless.
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  205. Racism and antisemitism are like a virus. They keep coming back around to haunt us in a new form just when we think we can look the other way and lean over to smell the roses. Up it comes again out of the blue with some horrendous attack or worse. It's a seed of destruction that has been planted in the human community's consciousness and all we can do is continually weed the universal garden when spring comes around is what I'm afraid is the only cure. Lastly, I'm sure many will find this comment not very understanding, but I think one way that society could tone down antisemitism and anti-muslim or anti- whatever is to not permit people to wear religious symbols in public. When you think of it, why do people need to wear their religious affiliation on their sleeves so-to-speak? Unstable people react differently than average or ordinary people and they are the ones that seem to do the damage.
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  206. There are some great Youtube channels and then there are even better ones, Lex Fridman goes one step further in his professionalism in interviews that will go through the ages as testimony of our era. Elon Musk will be seen as an innovator and entrepreneur of our time and someone who dared go where no one has gone before. As far as aliens, here is what I have collected---and there is much more---of The Great Pyramid of Giza. Lex, Elon, if it wasn't star children who had a hand in making this structure, they knew how to get to the stars. 1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north 2. It weighs 6 million tons 3. Its footprint is 13 acres 4. It is more than 755.9 feet along each side 5. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun 6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone 7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth 9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth 10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis 11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72 12. The Great Pyramid of Giza gives us the dimensions of the planet on a scale defined by the planet itself 13. There are several 70-ton blocks of granite from a quarry 500 kilometers away, one of hardest stones, raised 300 feet above the ground 14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air 15. It is a calendar 16. It has expansion joints 17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass 18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry and they had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision 19. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation (laser guided surveying tools?) to site The Great Pyramid 20. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier 21. If you subtract the inner circle of the base from the outer circle around the base (the circumference of The Great Pyramid), you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points: 299,792,458 meters per second 22. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth 23. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth 24. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth 25. If you divide the perimeter of the pyramid by 1/2 its height the result is 3.14 Pi h/2 = Pi 26. The base side length is 364.242 which is exactly the time in days it takes for the earth to orbit the sun 27. The high chamber is built on a double square, which leads us to the golden ratio geometry 28. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system
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  207. Lex, it would be great to get Mr Cowen’s opinion on a very divisive subject in your country. In some parts of Oregon, people are allowed to wear guns. There are few mass shootings in those regions. Why? Because the mass shooters go for soft targets. We never hear of someone doing a mass shooting at a Police station or where people are armed. Boys and girls, please don’t be offended from someone out of your country giving a solution to the mass shootings. But the plain simple truth is that every qualified and certified adult in America must wear a sidearm for the horrific mass shootings to come down in scale. There is no other way if the 2nd Amendment is going to work. It can only work when everyone is on board. It’s an opinion.
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  208. What is it about the end of life that makes us all look into our hearts and minds and soul at the same time? Have you noticed that thinking about one's final minutes----and what I have sometimes pondered on----my last dying breath, does to your state of mind? It shows you what it is going to be like. We are all going to experience it and this frightens me more than anything. Imagine, you and I are breathing away, filling our lungs and blowing out stale air, but one fine moment there will be one final expiration: our last breath of life will leave us to join all the others last breath which leave them and join the atmosphere of the world. As someone who has questioned religion from the first memories of thinking about it, I have to admit there comes out of me a sort of admission or words to... I will say it... God. Then and there I realize that something wants me to believe there is a presence, a creator, but I will never give in for long, because I feel that God is within us as something every person imagines in their own way. Death is the same. Death is something every single person imagines in their own way and that is what makes us all look bewildered when someone talks about their idea of death, because it rarely resembles our own. The key to all of this is what I have come to say are the last words I say to myself before I go into that place, we call dreamland. If you can say that you are happy with yourself before you go to sleep, then that is all you need to know to realize that you have succeeded in finding your purpose here on earth and if your final breath comes in the dead of night, you will know in your mind that your life was lived well and you can die in peace.
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  209. Mr Nolan brings in some dynamite analysis of the UFO phenomenon. I've already said it, but what are we dealing with here? If we step back, what the aliens appear to be doing is allowing some humans to see them, but not ever speak with them or have an exchange of some kind. No; they seem to shy away from ever wanting any kind of contact with people---the Zimbawe incident was with small children---and this is where I think we have to realize that they are hundreds if not thousands of years ahead of us and see us as curious relics of a world they may be plotting to take as their own. Dr David Jacobs' book 'Walking Among Us' is startling in that there seems to be a program that is being run at this writing of indoctrinating abductees to learn how to direct masses of people to what could only be waiting transport spacecraft. Interestingly, no one ever reports being told where they are taking us. I'm repeating myself, but what I think we are seeing is that the aliens see that we have something they don't: emotions. I think when we do finally meet our space visitors, we are going to see beings that have evolved out of any kind of emotion. Like us, they will be careful not to harm us, unless it gets in the way of their agenda. Then we're toast. I am very negative on what aliens and UFOs seem to be telling us: we are advanced beings and we judge you incapable of understanding us or our technology. I think it's very possible our planet is a jewel that they have discovered and the only thing between planitary acquistion as Jacobs puts it is us.
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  210. Coming in at 3:23 in your very interesting discussion, what I believe AI will have in terms of consciousness will be nothing like our consciousness. We have to remember that the simplest cell in our body's membrane has 10 to the 78 billion possiblities of combinations and only one works. Ditto with all the components of the cell. The carbohydrates that are on the membrane of the cell are more complex than the RNA and DNA combined in a simple cell. What am I saying here? Actually, I am saying that life is so complex at the molecular level that it is off-the-charts in terms of it happening spontaneously in nature, but besides that, our consciousness comes from quite an extraordinary place. A machine that becomes like an intelligent being will have a consciousness, but it won't resemble ours. You can't make Tandoori chicken without the right ingredients. Machine intelligence will reflect its components: it will therefore be something that is foreign to human consciousness but nonetheless a sort of living synthetic consciousness. It's a theory--
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  211. Would a Kardashev Type I civlization require a world government for it to happen? I have invented an economic model to replace capitalism called teknomix, but I have made it contingent on having a world government---a planetary governing body which calls the shots----for it to happen.
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  212. Brilliant observation from Professor Gogg. A new measuring device is needed to define something that is not possible to observe: consciousness. My view, and (I am not a scientist) is that the universe is the gatekeeper of consciousness. Why do I say that? Because a preying mantis is tuned into the universe and receives its marching orders from the great beyond. It seeks out a certain prey and its existence revolves around how it is tuned in to the great beyond as is all creatures in the world. Human beings tune out and then tune in to consciousness when they awake from their nightly dream sessions. All of us percieve what is going around us in a unique manner which tells me our brains are transmitters fidele to our own molecular structure. We tune in to the universe and pull out what we need to make it through the day. This makes sense to me, because every creature seems to exist in a certain wave-length.
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  213. Both of your views on AI make the planets tremble just a bit, but what I think is going to happen is that we are going to continue building AI machines until the robot-like human comes into being. This robot-like human will one day take off on its own trajectory and will never align itself with human values once it has cut all ties with us. This is where Sam's analysis will probably come into being: the machines will out do us on every possible level. We will lose every time in their game of chess until we pull back and get out of their way. The synthetic-beings we will have created will go their own way too. What I believe is coming down the pike is that we will be creating the beings we thought one day we ourselves could be, but of course, we will never be super-human. It's the parallel robo-human race that will conquer and colonize the known galaxies---in our image. Here is where I think humans will have peace of mind. The new robo-humans might go to war against us, but it will only make us stronger and the will to survive goes above intelligence. We will keep our biological presence and simply acknowledge that we will be the gods of the new robo-human race we will one day create. I can see both of your reaching for the whiskey bottle, Lex, Sam, it is after all Friday evening!
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  214. Once again I'm chiming in on this very interesting interview by Lex Fridman of Garry Nolan. Why do I keep chirping away about aliens? Because something doesn't jive for me. I can't put my finger on it. The fact that they are buzzing around and have been for as long as recorded history tells us, why on Earth---pun intended---would they be avoiding contact with us at all costs. We have gone over the abduction, planetary acquisition theories, so what I think may be holding them back, and excuse me if I'm repeating myself, but what I think may be causing them to refrain from making a real-time global, media-covered meeting with humans is that perhaps after a thousand years, humans will have abandoned our emotions. We have to imagine that if beings can cross the universe, time is something they have conquered. When humans become immortal, it will be possible to be walking down the street with a friend and a gorgeous girl walks by and your friend says "beautiful girl, she seemed... Does she know you?" " I married her a thousand years ago and we're still friends." Maybe they also 'lost' their beauty by making their bodies 'space-travel ready' in that they made themselves be able to live forever and in doing that abandoned all of the 'human' traits that we have in our time. Do you see what I mean in that there is something very, very wrong with the picture we have of ETs and UFOs. We are being played like we don't really count or maybe it's just to advanced beings we are so insignificant that nothing matters to them about anything we say, do or even exist.
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  215. ​​ @SAL Hi, WEll he backs up Jim Rickards assessment to a t: Why Bitcoin, Ripple, Ether and other Crypto-Currencies will fail. It is Non-scalable – Transaction times are slow. “Layering solutions” such as payment channels, “Lightning Network,” “Segregated Witness,” and “Hash Time-Locked Contracts” (HTLC) all suffer defects, have no consensus and violate the “trustless” ethic of the original bitcoin blockchain. Non-sustainable – Energy use grows exponentially and is wasteful. Non-regulated – Leads to price manipulation, fraud, front-running, wash sales, etc. No use case – The only use case is for criminals, terrorists, tax evaders, etc.Non-elastic – Money should be elastic to accommodate normal economic growth. Bitcoin was the model T, it's normal it was the first horse out of the stable, but now they've worked out the bugs. Might be wise to invest in the latest model, old technology is not a safe bet.
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  216.  @Take_The_Ride  Great to hear from you. Please write clearly so we know what you are talking about.
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  217. Who was the guy on Patrick Bet-David's show who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto?
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  218. Wouldn't the universe better be compared to a simple living cell? Nature would not have created a cell where only parts of it could be attended to nor where only certain areas could be visited. Our universe has undoubtedly (underground river) sorts of passageways that allow one to venture to all and any parts of it at will.
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  219.  @NavAK_86  GGGGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. What boggles my mind about the simple cell comes from a Professor Jim Tour lecture. He said that the membrane on a cell as 10 to the 78 billion possible combinations, but for it to work, there is only one combination. This has changed my way of thinking of evolution.
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  220. Will there be generation ships? Space ships with gravity-adaptors allowing to live in an Earth-style environment and on missions to star systems could be the way to colonize the galaxy. Lastly, it must be the hardest thing in the world to be Russian at this time, Lex, but we know the Russian people deserve more than an autocratic leader who is showing to the world why authoritarian regimes are toxic to the human community.
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  221.  @davidhuns7545  GGGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. Could you explain what you mean? Halo's rings are what, for example?
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  222. The timestamp is 2:10, and Lex Fridman has done it again. He's asked pertinent questions to Mr Stephenson about Musk's goal of colonizing Mars. The response was measured and clear: there's nothing there to bring back so any idea of it making money is out the window. There is radiation; unknown problems. My vote would be to go for the simple reason that if someone has the idea to colonize mars then it's going to be good for our species in ways we can't yet imagine. We have to realize that planet Earth is like a casino. We've been playing roulette, blackjack and craps for thousands of years and in spite of some heavy losses, we've always managed to more or less come back as a winner. The trouble with the universe is that it's playing with a loaded deck; it's got something coming our way that will take us back to the stone age---if we're lucky. I think every one of us has the sense that something evil this way comes. We know in our inner mind that what we have on Earth wasn't meant to last forever. Musk is a person who is tuned in to something like that---but who can really say what's going on in anyone else's mind? All we know is that it will probably be like a lot of expeditions and I won't go into that. But what I believe they should be thinking about is instead of building structures that are above ground---at least in the beginning---they should look at some of the ant colonies and immitate their way of building underground. Whole towns could be made under the surface and when the technology was up-to-speed, they could build on the surface. It may well be that they end up colonizing Phobos or the outer moon first and having sort of a 'deathstar' moon-shaped structure that would allow them to live and then descend to the planet's surface when technologies allowed. One thing we have to do is have as many outposts where our species can live and prosper. We only have to look at The Great Pyramid of Giza to realize that advanced civlizations were here and then disappeared. It could happen to us.
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  223.  @getagrip4411  GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGreaaaaatttttt to hear from you. You are completely right. And: the proof is Joe Rogan says whatever he wants and 11 million people think he's doing just fine like that. We're 2,000 kilometers from a war that could go past the Ukraine's borders any day. Russian soldiers and Ukrainian soldiers and civilians are dying. I give the same advice to the Ukrainian fighters who call Putin names. I doesn't do anything but make it look even worse. It's best to stay diplomatic and report the war or describe Russia's leader in civil and respectuous terms and report how they're fighting and not what you think of them personally. Joe is on the international stage, it's tough for people who have become wealthy beyond belief, famous and powerful to stay humble, but once you reach the pinnacle of success you must come down off your charging stallion. It's the challenge for reaching your dream, now you have to be like someone starting out and forget the dough and star power.
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  224. The simple cell has a membrane with 10 to the 78 billion possible combinations but only one will work. The carbohydrtes on the surface of the membrane ARE more complex than the RNA and the DNA combined. When a cell wants to transfer material from one part of it to another, it builds a monorail system that picks up the material and delivers it where it is needed. Then the monorail dissolves. All the parts of a cell must come together and be assembleD at exactly the right time and the right temperature. Carbohdrates age quickly and carmelize rapidly and therefore would have to join the other parts of the cell at exactly the right time. They could not be made and then wait 3 weeks, for example. I am paraphrasing Dr Jim Tour. He says we have made no progress in understanding how a simple cell works from the early 1950s because of how complex a simple cell is. What am I saying here? How in the world would a simple cell even have been able to form? Not from the primordial soup we all grew up hearing about in science class, that's for sure. Where did all of the parts of a cell form and decide to come together and with the right combination for the membrane etc. and then come alive?
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  225. The power of love---guys!
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  226. Your Russian Lex, let me give a great man advice. Don't use the xxxhole word when it's not your language and especially on a show like yours. It's insulting to many of those who watch your videos and you put your guest in a bad spot: He can't do anything but cringe and give a phony smile.
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  227. What is perplexing is to understand alien psychology. Aren't we really seeing it like this: The aliens; "We judge you so incapable of understanding us or our technology, that we choose not to identify ourselves or allow you to interact with us in any way or know where we're from or what we're doing here. No, we will continue to do flybys, buzz your military and nuclear installations, abduct animals and humans and perform medical experiments, have hubrid individuals bred on our ships and later sent down to infiltrate your society (according to Dr David Jacobs: Walking Among Us). We will not help you stop the onslaught of surpassing the vaious tipping points that will lead to mass extinction if it carries on". What does this tell us about their mentality? It looks like they have evolved from bugs in that emotions seem to have nothing to do with their makeup. It must be that they are a thousand years ahead of us; they've learned to cross the universe without us knowing it. Whatever and/or whoever they are, I think we have to realize that at least a part of them have not got our best interests in mind. Some abductees tell us the aliens say a big change is coming, they are training the abductees to direct masses of people towards certain locations to where I am assuming transport ships will be waitng. But get this: no one is being told where they're going to be taking us. I think we have seen this movie before. But to me, I try to simply gather the facts. Like Mr Nolan, I believe the Zimbabwe school visit stands out as solid proof of their existence. Yet, imagine this: they somehow knew the kids were alone that special day and the exact time. They chose to communicate with the children and ignore telling the adults that our planet was in danger. It's going to make sense to me one day, I'm sure of it. But that day is still a long ways off.
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  228. Lex, is your mission in life defined in this videocast? Aren't you the one person in the world who can stop the madness of the Israeli/Palestinian casse tête chinois?
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  229.  @gumfun2  GGGGGGGGGGreat to hear from you. We all hear what we want to hear...
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  230. It would be interesting to know if the Covid-19 did escape from the Wuhan lab--by what ever reason--let's just call it an accident--if that's what really happened. But could anyone tell us if this would be the type of gene-manipulated virus that would be deliberately released to a population? Is Covid-19 low-level, medium-level or high-level in its lethality? It seems mostly likely that 10 million people have probably lost their lives across the world to this virus, isn't that a very low-level deadly virus?
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  231. The plain truth of the matter is that Lex Fridman is right; the reality is that we live in a capitalist system that often operates with profits being the main goal. People who make money from other peoples' work are only following the instruction manuel of the capitalist economic system. Lex is right; but until what's running under the floor boards is replaced with a new transmission and a new motor, things like scientific articles will remain behind pay walls.
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