1:57:50September 10, 2023
Advice for young people
Walter Isaacson: Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Einstein, Da Vinci & Ben Franklin
Well, one of the things I'd love to ask you is for advice for young people. To me, first advice would be to read biographies in the sense because they help you understand of all the different ways you can live a life well lived. But from having written biographies, having studied so many great men and women, what advice could you give to people of how to live this life? Well, I keep going back to the classics and Plato and Aristotle and Socrates, and I guess it's Plato's maxim but he may be quoting Socrates that the unexamined life is not worth living. And it gets back to the know thyself and other things, which is you don't have to figure out what is the big meaning of it all, but you have to figure out why you're doing what you're doing and that requires something that I did not have enough of when I was young, which is self-awareness and examining every motive, everything I do.
2:24:53November 3, 2020
Steering around the iceberg - wow do we avoid collapse of society?
Dan Carlin: Hardcore History
Dan Carlin and Lex Fridman discuss steering around the iceberg - wow do we avoid collapse of society?.
1:04:29November 9, 2023
Dystopian worlds: 1984 and Brave New World
Elon Musk: War, AI, Aliens, Politics, Physics, Video Games, and Humanity
Yeah. The things we'll consider to be flaws of human civilization might be a necessary components for whatever optimal looks like. I mean this, do you worry about AI, AGI enabling a dystopian state of this nature, whether it's 1984 with surveillance and fear or brave new world with pleasure and what is it? Lots of sex, but no deep human experience. There's actually a real drug called Soma.
1:02March 10, 2024
Growing up in South Africa
Kimbal Musk: The Art of Cooking, Tesla, SpaceX, Zip2, and Family
Growing up in South Africa, you said it was a violent place. What are some formative moments that you remember from that time? South Africa was, so I grew up in apartheid South Africa, but more specifically the fall of apartheid. I was a teenager in the '80s and our community would, part of our social life frankly, was the anti-apartheid protests and to go be with white people, Black people, kind of mixing it all altogether. The most formative experiences, frankly, how much I appreciate a place like America where we have value for human life. So, that was a country where human life was not valued. It's a weird thing to come from that to here where we take it so seriously, if someone dies in a war or something like that, and we just didn't take it seriously.
10:45August 2, 2024
Power of human mind
Elon Musk: Neuralink and the Future of Humanity
Well, it is a very interesting question for a super intelligent species, what use are humans? I think there is some argument for humans as a source of will.
1:39June 30, 2023
Time is an illusion
George Hotz: Tiny Corp, Twitter, AI Safety, Self-Driving, GPT, AGI & God
You know, I sell phone calls to Comma for a thousand dollars and some guy called me. It's a thousand dollars. You can talk to me for half an hour. He is like, "Yeah, okay. Time doesn't exist and I really wanted to share this with you." I'm like, "Oh, what do you mean time doesn't exist?" I think time is a useful model, whether it exists or not. Right. Does quantum physics exist? Well, it doesn't matter. It's about whether it's a useful model to describe reality. Is time maybe compressive? Do you think there is an objective reality or is everything just useful models? Underneath it all is there an actual thing that we're constructing models for?
