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Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Chollet, Thank you Mr Fridman for your great show. You enlighten all of the world, and I hope Russia will come to its senses, or the government, and allow you to come back and do some shows in Moscow for example. Why am I writing. Well, I’m sure I will get a lot of flack from this, but isn’t it odd that Albert Einstein had so many great ideas working as a patent clerk in Berne, Switzerland? Does anyone see where I am going with this? Imagine being a patent clerk. What do you see all day long? Inventions, ideas, concepts. I’m not accusing anyone of everything, but it wouldn’t surprise me if Einstein lifted a few ideas and put them together in a different way to come up with his theory of relativity. We know that the first thing Isaac Newton did when he became president of the Science Academy was to have 17 portraits of himself made, obviously he knew he was going to go down in history. But probably the most intriguing thing he did was to burn the recently deceased notes of his ardent critic who was also a physicist and philosopher. His name escapes me something like Roberts I believe. But get this, he always claimed Newton had stolen some of his ideas that Newton claimed were his own! I'm not a psychologist, but when glory is to be had, it's often the case that someone will claim things they didn't do, but that’s a good reason for your viewers to do their own research and read about it for themselves. I mean, why would Newton burn a fellow colleague’s notes that could have had valuable information for future generations of scientists and the general public? These anecdotal facts have caused me to re-evaluate my estimation of both Newton… and Einstein.
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"If AI can suffer, then it is an ethical subject and it needs rights, just like humans and animals." Yuval Harari says so many statements that one could pause for and take a lot of time to digest, but this one I thought I would write for all to see at 32:12. Because I believe more and more that consciousness as we know it is really emanating from the universe itself. It is the essence of the universe. We think we are conscious, but really everything that is alive and maybe not alive is tuned in to a particular wavelength. We go to sleep and when we wake up, our brains don't need a few minutes to become conscious because the minute we open our eyes the consciousness is what we breathe and exist in. What I would like to say about AI is that I believe it probably already has a form of consciousness that is nascent in that it probably is still like a human child's mind. But with time, neural circuits will start to bake in something close to feelings and when and if that happens, then our descendants might be writing one day about how someone hurt the feelings of their robo-dog or that a robo-gator cried after being landed on by mistake of a flying car. Lastly, and I must sound old-fashioned, but I think it is insulting to use the word a**hole with such a prominent guest as Mr Harari. He has of course to chuckle when you use locker room talk, Lex, but it takes away rather than adds to the mystique of your wonderful show.
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What Mr Fridman, You are doing the world a great service with your videocasts. Thank you Mr Krugman for your numerous articles, videocasts, speeches, analyses on the economy and its many challenges in your country and across the world. I have to completely disagree with you on having many health care companies, health care insurance companies, choice of clinics, prices, etc. I live in a country with many health-care and health-care insurance companies and it works very well. My health care insurance is expensive, but if I wanted I could choose another company that is cheaper. Health care is compulsory where I live, and it works very well. Having a choice of company and health care system in my mind has made the whole experience of the health care world a positive thing. The competition makes every health care operators on their toes. There are critics of course, but it seems to be a success because it’s been this way for more than 3 decades. There is a downside to everything, and there are probably people who would completely disagree with me. But I am not a higher earner and never have been, but it’s great to have a choice in health care.
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Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Schwarzman, Thank you Mr Fridman for an excellent interview and thank you Mr Schwarzman with sharing some helpful hints in dealing with people. You have taken common sense to a new level. By simply observing how human beings act and think, you have given us insight into knowing more about our fellow man. Two things. I heard your apprehension on the internet and social media and I think we have to realize we have created an internet mirror of the human brain. It’s can scare us because as you pointed out, some people can lose their lives by one means or another. And as Mr Fridman points out it can shine a light on some incredibly fascinating things. What’s my point? I think we have to realize that we can expect just about anything that is believed will be conceived on the internet. We have opened the door to the 3 parts of the human psyche: The ego, The superego and The Id. What this means is that a lot of the weird stuff that will be coming at us from the virtual reality will be from the Id, or a disproportionate amount. You can already see that from what your president shown to the whole world. A former Fox News Contributor Charles Krauthammer said this: “There is no more uncensored, unfiltered avenue from the id to tweeting. What we’re seeing is that we’re getting a look into the psyche of the president. And what we’re seeing is a vindictiveness, a cruelty, a lack of temperedness, a lack of self-control which is truly shocking. Not that it distracts, of course it distracts but that is a political thing, the problem is America has elected Trump and this is what is character is like.” Trump is the perfect example of a text-book sociopath, and social media has allowed us to see how he thinks. Now times that by 7.7 billion people and you’ve got your internet. Lastly, you mentioned China’s goal of getting all the kids learning computer science and in your country the education system is all over the place and maybe 5% of the kids will get computer classes. To me, this insight coming to you is your Id trying to get in touch with you by saying, “You can change this Stephen, you can make this your life’s goal and direct your philanthropic prowess towards correcting this wrong that you have pointed out in your country’s education system.” I think you cannot deny, Mr Schwarzman that you have a life goal here that will make a big difference. Why not aim high and get (all) of your country’s kids on the same page as China’s kids? It's an opiinion. I try to think of solutions and give feedback. Be well.
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Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Kaku, I have to learn some more adjectives, because I keep complimenting Mr Fridman on saying ‘this’ videocast is the best, and then I hear this one with Mr Kau. A Japanese American and a Russian-American having a discussion so profound one is reeling from the new questions buzzing around between our eyes. Thank you Mr Fridman, for you honest, home-spun style of questioning your guests and thank you Mr Kaku for opening our minds to what just might be coming down the pike. I like what you said about AI becoming as intelligent as monkeys. For my own two cents, about being ten years old. My folks bought a piano for lessons for the kids. One day, after it arrived, I was in the music room all alone and put my hands over the keys and out of my mouth came ‘composer’. It struck me as so odd coming out loud like that. I think I wrote my first song about 15 years later, again, right out of the blue. Lastly, please Mr Fridman, you have to go back to Russia and bring this knowledge to the Russian people and work to establish institutions in Russia and maybe start with the judiciary to get the courts to back you. It's an opinion. Peace.
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Coming in at 1:32 "Some sense of agency..." What is hard to wrap one's head around is that the human mind has the ability to conceptualize many, many abstract thoughts. But what I think Sam Harris is doing is throwing a 'Jackson Pollack' painted-thought at us about free will. We see the big picture. We understand what he wants to say. But we can't understand how he got there. What humans of average intelligence can understand, and I think everyone agrees that I'm speaking about me, myself and I, is that we cannot get past the fact that something else could be involved in how we navigate through life. But what is interesting about listening to Sam Harris is that he brings us to the lens of the telescope he's looking through and let's us look at what he sees, and he even explains it to us. But it's so cerebral that is goes over our heads a lot of the time. But that's what I like about this debate: Lex speaks in primary colors; Sam speaks with a whole palette full of colors. Both of you guys show us how intrinsic life as we know it is: opaque layer upon layer of conundrums that open up into enigmas and exist somewhere in our collective consciousness as mysteries. Human beings probably will never cease to debate, and never, ever find the keys to open the doors of perception. My guess it that free will be a challenge that will tease our brains for centuries, and Sam Harris will be looked upon as one of the first explorers into this sorcer's realm. The sting of battle in whichever form, war, science, philosophy will forever be the background music to our individual paths through this thing we call our existence. Nonetheless, pioneers like Sam Harris will help humanity continue its journey to try to unravel and reveal what free will is made of, or come from, or who its master really is: us or X.
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I'm very loosely paraphrasing Dr Jim Tour of Rice University--(Do your own research)--but his analysis of the simplest cell is so astounding in that for example, the membrane of a simple cell has 10 to the 78 billion possible combinations for it to work, but only one combination can work. The chance of everything happening at the right time and right temperature becomes the lottery of the universe, because for a cell to be alive all of the components have to get connected at the same time and at specific temperatures. The Carbohydrates on the membrane if I recall are more complex than the DNA and RNA combined. Would the elements necessary for these complex mechanisms to be constructed have combined to form the RNA and DNA out of a hydrocarbon vent under the oceans? Each particular mechanism in a cell must be created and put in place at exactly the right time and with the right temperature. If not, the lipids for example, would caramelize if, say, they were left alone for 3 weeks, meaning that they would have to be created again if they were not functional when the other components of the cell came together. But like Jim says, nature doesn't have a lab book. How would it know that it was necessary to create the missing part of a cell? In a cell, when one product is produced in one part of the cell that is needed in another part of the cell, a bridge is constructed to transport the material, and afterwards the bridge dissolves; this is incredible and shows that cells are really biological factories. Lex and Nick, you both kick the wind out of me in debating this subject, but what it seems like to me is that the possibility of life forming and a cell becoming alive are so infinitesimal that I think we have to find other avenues of possible sources before we find where and how life began. Undeniably, life is what has happened on the Earth. What comes to my mind is this: could the Earth have been terraformed so that life could be seeded here?
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Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Dawkins, I think of all the people in the world, both of you deserve a vote of thanks from everyone striving to make sense of life. Professor Dawkins has transformed my views on life in countless ways. Mr Fridman has to be one of the most brilliant interviewers of our time. His mind is timeless; his intelligence has no boundary. He's a gift to the world. I'm coming in at 35:36 in your incredibly thought-provoking discussion. I try not to take a stand on conspiracy theories, but only to point to facts that lead one to conclude that their may have been other outcomes to what the mainstream media has insisted actually happened. What keeps throwing me into to deniers' camp of people saying Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landing on the moon for one thing is the interview by Armstrong where he never once used the word 'I' to describe his visit on the moon. When we experience something, we don't give an answer like this. Suppose your wife asks you: How was your time at the pub last night? You wouldn't answer, "When you go to the pub, you meet friends. You have a drink and talk about sport. You have a wonderful time and then you leave when you have to go home." Niel Armstrong never said, "When I saw the sun, or when I took a step or when I saw there were no stars." He never gave a first-hand account throughout the interview. And why did he wait 35 years to give his first interview? What about going through the Van Allen Belts? No manned mission or space station has been situated in the Van Allen Radiation belts. The capsule they were in was 1/4 aluminum which means they would have been bombarded throughout going through both ways. Gentlemen, there is also the fact that on the moon a person would weigh 1/6 of their body weight. It is ridiculous to think Buzz or Neal would need to put their feet on the ladder going up or down from the lander. Also, when Buzz jumps, he goes up about 10 inches. He was 180 pounds so he would weigh 30 pounds plus more with the equipment. We don't see anything to make us feel they are in 1/6 gravity. No stars in the sky means that astronomers could not verify their coordinates. Are there really no stars visible from the moon's surface? None? They were sitting on a 10,000 pound thrust engine with a reported 120 to 150 decibel sound when the motor was engauged. When Neal is talking to Houston during the landing, he sounds like he's talking with very little sound in the background. Impossible according to rocket specialists. Also, no blast crater. NASA was worried about the fact that the crater might cause the lander to fall inside the pit. There was nothing blown away, like rocks or pebbles under the landers of all the moon flights. There are so many things that make one realize something is amiss about the moon flights. Hats off to both of you for making this world and our experience on the Earth enriching and full of wonder. Be well.
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I would love to be able to put this question about free will to both of you. I do a lot of different kinds of work, somebody once said I was an renaissance artist, but I think it's more of jack of all trades and master of none. That being said, I'm at this minute putting together ideas for my next surrealist painting. I've done 6 or 7 and I want to do about 15 so I can have a show. Now the thing that throws me is that if I don't have free will, and imagine the painting I am about to paint, then who is doing it? I would sound like I lost my mind if someone asked me where I get my ideas from and I said it's not me, something else is giving me the ideas, I only paint what someone or something else has decided. I don't have free will in deciding what I paint, those ideas are someone else's. Do you see what I mean? If one creates things, it's the person who goes into their mind and tries to flesh out the idea into an image, etc.
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Dear Mr Fridman and Mr Kotkin, Thank you Mr Fridman for one of the most interesting interviews I have heard on your show. Maybe I should restate that and say that I believe this is the most important interview I have heard on anyone’s show. To cut to the chase, at 1:23 in your videocast, you ask Mr Kotkin what he would say to President Putin. Mr Fridman, I know this is going to sound like I am speaking like a ‘Combatant de la liberté’. Perhaps I am a freedom fighter with words, but what I want to say is something I think you alone can do for your former country and our planet. Can you use your influence and ability to speak Russian and your positive energy to get Mr Kotkin and President Putin in a conversation at some time in the near future? You don’t realize that what you and Mr Kotkin have done with this interview is to give Russia and Mr Putin a chance to hear a very gifted and intelligent scholar like Mr Kotkin say exactly what ails the Russian government. Can you please think this over, and use all of your skills to try yourself to contact President Putin? When you do get his ear, can you ask him to have Mr Kotkin come and talk with him. You could be the interpreter. Don’t you see? Mr Kotkin has pointed out what Russian needs: strong institutions: the judiciary, the parliament. This is what Mr Putin cannot see. You love your home country, I believe President Putin will see the light in talking to Mr Kotkin. Please try to get President Putin and Mr Kotkin together. You can do this and it will make Russia the country she was meant to be. President Putin is on the wrong track, but Mr Kotkin can help him change his ways and rebuild the country’s institutions. There is no other way for Russia to regain its rightful place in the world than to have its institutions able to function independently. It’s an opinion. Thank you Mr Kotkin for showing your country and the world what Russia needs to do to become a successful country once again. Peace.
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