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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. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  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. 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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  13. 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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  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. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  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. 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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  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. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  32. 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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  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. Matt Walker is a teacher bringing new concepts and shining a light in areas we only glanced at before.
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  35. 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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  36. 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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  37. 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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  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. 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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  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. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  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. 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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