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Duncan Trussell

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“It's true. It's true. Like the first noble truth of Buddhism is true. It's called the truth of suffering. There is suffering. I mean, this is like, I don't know, an element that you can't break it down any further than that. Like, there is suffering. This is truth. So if you think, you know, and again, as signing like good or bad to truth, I think maybe there's more of a sort of neutrality there. It's just what it is. It's truth.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, yeah, it hurts to not like eternally not have, but just like my friend pointed this out, he's like, you know, like, You order something from Amazon. Like, even in the smallest way, you're excited about whatever the thing is. You order this thing from Amazon It's not coming for four days. So those four days are going to be somewhat marked by you being what people say. I'm excited about it. But really, if you look at that feeling, it's uncomfortable, like the feeling of wanting the thing is uncomfortable. So that is a form of suffering. That's suffering.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's so funny. Well, I'm definitely picking desire over the, like, if in the RGB that we're talking about here is desire. Aversion and ignorance. So, if you want to find like the three ingredients that are giving everyone their sophisticated bits of suffering, there you go. That's what...”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When your bike doesn't have an or your car doesn't have enough air in the tires, your bike doesn't have enough air in the tires. It's kind of a shitty bike ride, like no matter what, just kind of like. It's like uncomfortable. It's like irritating. So this is what's being pointed to is that there's this quality within a human life that is. Unsatisfying”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, well, first of all, that gets mistranslated quite a bit. You're talking about the Four Noble Truths, the first one is often gets translated as life is suffering, which is not it. It's there is suffering. The whole life is suffering thing. It's just like the spiritual version of life's a bitch, and then you die. And people hear that and they're like, yeah, life is fucking suffering. But it's there is suffering. They're suffering. It's an affirmation if you're like this thing that a lot of people feel that they associate with lots of, they have a lot of reasons they think they're feeling it is known as fundamental dissatisfaction. So another word for suffering maybe could be fundamental dissatisfaction. Also, the term itself may be a better translation is wobbly wheel. So like imagine like”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Or return, or whatever, however you want to put it, then you could have more control over what your next birth might be versus in this depiction of things, people running from demons that they don't recognize as their own projection into any fucking body that they can find. Because if you've had a body, you want a body. And so this is how you could incarnate as an animal. This is how you can incarnate in the hell realms. This is how you get incarnate in any variety of things. But the idea is like maybe you could slow down a little bit and like choose a birth that is going to be more conducive to you. Continuing to like spiritually evolve. I like that idea. Is it true or not? Who the fuck knows?”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Nietzsche's demon or Nietzsche's angel. It just depends on where you're at and how you died. And like if you died scared, then at least initially that's going to be some scary shit you see around you. If you died in a peaceful way, well then there's going to be more of a possibility of navigation through this intermediary place. And so thus the emphasis on meditation in Buddhism, a way to calm oneself, to not be distracted by thoughts, which are their own apparitions. And then theoretically, if you wanted to, instead of spinning the wheel again and jumping back into a body, you could choose not to do that. And then, you know, transcend the wheel of birth and death. But if you still wanted to go back.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You're in a shitty mood. And then coincidentally, everyone that day is an asshole. If you don't catch it, you could just be like, wow, I guess act like an asshole day. You don't realize you're seeing your asshole projection being reflected off the screen of another person. So in the Bardo apparently, you don't need people for the reflective quality. These projections happen and there they appear as either.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They say that you get to hang out there, and I can't remember. It's like 37 days or 29 days or something, I'm not sure, but at least from the time space perspective, that's how long they're there. Within this place, There are a lot of technological parallels, man. It's like in the way the algorithm is reflective. It assesses your desires or whatever and then produces something that has within it a component of attraction to you. Apparently this happens in the Bardo. Or the way, you know, you wake up in the morning and you”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's a permanent thing. The next bit of confusion is going to be when you realize something is persisting here like I'm still here, and this is where you run into the near-death experiences, which are a global phenomena that don't seem to be completely shaped by culture. You know, like regardless of what part of the world people are having these experiences in, the reports tend to be similar, and everyone's heard it. The light, the life review, seeing ancestors and stuff like that. Now, I don't know what that is. I don't know. Sometimes I think that's probably just like a built-in way the computer shuts down, you know, just this is something it does. Who knows? But in Buddhism, the concept is this momentum persists into something called the Bardo. The Bardo means in between. And there's an actual number.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When you die. In general, not all the time. Some people die with a clear mind. It just depends on the type of death. But think in terms of getting hit by a car. So you want to cross the street, you get hit by a car. Now, if we're talking about this momentum continuing, the confusion assuming you didn't hit your head and you're unconscious, like somehow you just got smashed and you're like bleeding out. Even then you're going to be confused because you're getting dizzy, like blood's leaving your body, or like things are fading out, your vision's going. So it's a very confusing experience initially when the body dies. If you are a materialist who has been Has convinced themselves that”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't want to say harm because they didn't mean to hurt, but I think there's some harm that maybe has happened from the way death is represented in movies. Like when people die in movies, it's like there's this, usually it's pretty fast, even if it is what they're dying from is a long-term disease. It like wraps up pretty quickly, starts with a cough, the person's in bed, but there's this weird kind of lucidity to the person up until the point of death. And also they generally in movies they have makeup on, which is always funny to me when the person dying looks great. Have you ever been around a dying person? They're dying. They look like shit. You're dying. They're all gray and like confused. You know, when you're around dying people, they will spin through time. Your parents won't recognize you for a second. They'll think you're somebody else. Everything's like the process is happening. So you're very confused.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, it's, yeah, again, any of these things when you take them literally, they seem absurd. But if you look deeper into it, it's quite beautiful. But the Buddhist version of it is that there's a momentum. The best way to put it is it's the kind of momentum. So the thing you're talking about, which is the personality of the baby that is still in the adult, which is still in the old person, you're looking at a kind of momentum that does not stop upon the extinction of the body. Now, the I think there's a lot of.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The Christians give you the gold streets in the mansion, like depending on the It's like paved with gold. No one's addressing the fact that the moment the streets are made of gold, gold is a valueless. Substance. I mean, it's sort of pretty in a cheesy kind of way, but no one's going to give a shit about it. It's like if there was not a lot of Asphalt in the world, then we'd be in heaven from that same, that way of thinking. But the”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, so that now, you know, obviously there's so many different answers to this question that are religious and ranging from the most absurd shit you ever heard in your life, like the gold, you're gonna get a mansion. There's gold streets. Like, I don't, do you even want gold streets?”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As far as what happens when you die, one thing I return to when I'm getting overly complex is the idea of as above so below. So that you can, a lot of the big questions can be answered by your own experience now. So in other words, like In terms of thinking about death. Um If you look back to Baby Lex versus adult legs. Where's the baby? Like, baby's gone. You've regenerated all your cells many times by then, so in a way you could say Lex baby died. The death didn't look like a typical, and I'm not trying to dodge it, but I'm just saying it was very natural that the death of that baby. It just”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I feel dumb that I'm even going to preface this by saying obviously I have no fucking idea. And I think that's one of the cool things about death. No idea”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes. And in this case, the cheese is Krishna. So, you know, or other ways it gets described as like, you know, a photon blasting off the sun has sunlight qualities, but it's not the sun. Humans being one of the many things, you know, flowing out of the creative consciousness of the divine have qualities that are weirdly like God-like. In fact, we want to control primarily. That's one of the problems like humans want to be in control. Where from there, the Bak Diego perspective, Krishna is this effortlessly controlling everything. And so within the system, the individual parts of the system have that same quality, but you can't, you're probably not God. You might be. I'm not.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's relative reality. So, you know, Buddhism is like kind of the balance. Again, when I say Buddhism is I'm a comedian podcaster, I'm not some Buddhist expert. This is just probably my confused idea of what it is. But anyway, in bhakti yoga, there's the concept that it's called, I'm going to mispronounce it, a synca sinka beta tatva. I'm sorry, I mispronouncing it, which means simultaneous oneness and difference.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, they like there's a lot of different, their answer to the question of what shows up in Buddhism is absolute and relative reality, like that, obviously there's relative reality. We're not right now, you and me, are not unitive consciousness. Like you zoom back far enough and we're going to seem like an atom or whatever the thing is the trope is. You can zoom back far enough and we're in a whatever. We're in a piece of cheese or something. Who knows? But in that way, we're like completely unified. But simultaneously we're individuals, like for sure or individuals. You still got to pay your taxes. You got to know your social security number”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, and they call it pining. So it's pining for Krishna. And there's the other ways you could be with Krishna is as a friend. So this is another form of love or, you know, as a mother, you know, because Krishna has a mother. So there's like all these ways of like looking at the various forms of love. And it's a really beautiful form of yoga.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Our modes of love. So longing actually is considered one of the highest forms of love. Idea is the longing is the grace. The longing is the love. So when you find yourself in a situation of longing, And heartbreak it is. Identical to union”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There are all these fascinating stories of Krishna. It's not just most people are familiar with Krishna from the Bhagavad Gita. They're about to be more, what's cool about it is because it's like they're making that Oppenheimer movie and he famously quoted the Bhagavad Gita when they split the Adam. There's all these stories of Krishna that are not just in the Bhagavagira. And these stories. It seems very simple when taken literally, but in Vaishnava Bhakti Yoga, it's very advanced theistic yogic system, so they take these stories, and from these stories they extrapolate this incredible analysis of what love is and how to connect with the universe. So Krishna has a lover, Radharani. And so Sometimes they're getting along. Sometimes they're fighting. Sometimes they're separated, and so each of these ways of feeling about Krishna is”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Potential relief from suffering in that, not just like intellectually knowing it, but becoming it. Now, whereas in Bhakti Yoga, there's this idea of like the The best thing is to be the individual because individuals are required for love for love to work embodied love. And so the quality, the thing we call the experience of love is something that can be cultivated. It doesn't just have to be for another person. It doesn't have to be for the stranger on the bus. It doesn't have to be for sweaty Bruce Springsteen's lover that you could actually shift that love to the divine, to God, because obviously it's the Hari Krishna's, it's a theistic religion. They believe in Krishna, who is the, from the POV of Vaishnava Bhakti Yoga, the Godhead, the source from which everything flows into time space.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's the yoga of love, and there's all kinds of forms of it. The one people know about the most is the Hari Krishna's, but the Hari Krishas are like, you know, the way in Christianity you've got the Episcopalians, the Catholics, the Baptists. In Bhakti Yoga, you have various deities that are the object of love. And so Bhakti Yoga is the what's really cool about it is it's a An analysis of love. And so, and it's the supposition being like love is the way to commune with the divine. Now, a distinction is drawn between two big world views that are spiritual. One is the concept of sort of unit of consciousness, which you'll run into in a lot of forms of Buddhism, if not all, a sort of a way of deconstructing the identity or understanding that you might not be anything at all, in fact, you're part of everything. And in that, there's a”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The longing there, I'll tell you this. Here's what's interesting about that thing that you're talking about. You've heard of you ever heard of something called Bhakti Yoga.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Hey, if anybody in the CIA is watching this, can you look into Bruce Springsteen's file and let us know if he actually banged the person you wrote that sucked about?”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The song doesn't get to little girl, is your daddy home? Did he go away and leave you all alone? You know, he's like, he knows she's at home alone.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Both perspectives. I'm sure Bruce Springsteen thought it was love when he's sweating in bed waiting to go to somebody's house.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Bruce Breenstein's laying in bed. With a freight train running through his head thinking about banging your wife and you're out of town? Oh my God.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah. No, like that's just what you're talking about with the unless you've been there. It's really hard to explain to people that even in the midst of What is generally accepted is one of the worst things that could happen to you war, cancer. Somehow There's still joy, there's still love, there's still, in fact, more. It's almost like when the anesthesia wears off, when you get your mouth worked on, you start feeling again. You're feeling. You're noticing. And that, you know, wow. But yet, like, Thank goodness. I think there's other ways for us to achieve this state of consciousness that don't involve war or cancer.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I didn't think that. What I thought was this shit just keeps going. That's what I thought. I thought I'm going to be gone, and this is just going to keep going. And that was a beautiful moment for me. It was this beautiful moment of like.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Don't remember why I listened to you. And I don't remember driving home. But I do remember driving to another doctor appointment, doctor's appointment the next day. It was the next day. I think the Goodyear Blimp was floating in the sky, and I was looking, I was a stoplight looking around. It's the person flying it know how to cure cancer.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so that's another way you can get out of confronting death you can think, well, maybe right now we don't have the tech, but it's coming. Consciousness uploads or downloads or whatever, depending on how you want to look at it. Another way people try to squirm out of the reality of death. There's all kinds of tricks.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Expand the human lifespan. That's what they'll do. I mean, that's a big argument for it is like, look, the human lifespan up until COVID, which they had to recalculate, like the lifespan because of the statistically all the people who died, it threw it off a little bit, but pandemics aside, the idea was the human lifespan seemed to be increasing by half a year every year, something like that. We were living longer. So all you got to do one more half a year? We're immortal, right? If we could, if we live a year longer every year, then we live forever.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I'm not really, I think it's important to really emphasize I didn't think I was immortal. Like I knew at some level, I'm probably going to die. Everyone dies. There's ways that you can sort of poke around with that idea. I still do it to this day. Like, I still do it. Like, it's a natural thing to do when you're confronted with annihilation. You want a way out. You want to talk your way out. Figure it out. There's got to be some way to fix it. Well, they'll fix it. That's another thing people do. They'll fix”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Idiot notion of subjective consciousness so like I'd been sort of kicking around this like I think they call it solopsism. It's like you're like, okay, I know I'm self-aware, but no one else can prove that they're self-aware. Like I don't, I have no way of proving that everything around me isn't just a video game, isn't just some projection, isn't, you know, who knows what? So maybe everybody else dies. They're NPCs, but I don't because I'm the only thing I know that has subjective consciousness. Now it's not like I really believed that. It's like an idea you toy around with when you're trying to evade confronting the reality of your own mortality. The brain will produce all kinds of ridiculous forms of ignorance. And that was one I'd been playing around with.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's right That's right, and there's very sophisticated ways of doing that, and there's very dumb ways of doing that. And I'd really been doing a dumb way of doing that. Like I'd been playing around with this.”
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“Yeah, what they do is because they know that when someone gets a cancer diagnosis, that their ability to comprehend information changes. When you get a cancer diagnosis, all the tropes, they happen, you're hearing it's weird, you're basically having like an anxiety attack, if I had to guess. It's like a hardcore anxiety attack. And then, you know, a nurse is there with me as he's explaining it. And then her job is, even though he's telling me how to get to the machine that's going to scan my body to see if it's gotten into my brain, he knows I'm not going to remember that. And so this nurse, when you're in this fog, takes you, at least took me to the machine that does the scan, but you're not going to get that data back for a few days. And so that's where you really live in the real world. That's the real world.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, yeah, exactly. I mean, you know, but he didn't really do, he couldn't really offer that hope because we had to find out how far the cancer progressed in my body. That's the next step. It's like, as soon as they tell you have cancer, they move quick. They're like, you know, we're going to schedule the surgery for, I think this was a Thursday or Friday. They're like, we're going to schedule it for Tuesday. Here's the chance. We don't know for sure it's cancer. That's what they say. It's like there's a 80 or 90% chance that this is cancer. There is some possibility. It could be something else. The only way we can now is doing a biopsy. And the only way that we can get that biopsy is by cutting one of your balls off. He didn't say it like that, but that's pretty much the logic behind it. It's like we got to get this thing. It's like a zombie bite. We got to hack this fucking thing off. We got to do it fast.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no! Oh no, there's not time, he's busy, he's got other appointments, you know. Also, if you're gonna get cancer, testicular cancer is, you know, not that there is a great cancer to get, but that's, you know, that's a good one because it moves slowly, the treatments they have for it are really advanced now. And so if you catch it early, then, you know, generally it's good you can survive it so.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But no, that's not how you're going to leave the doctor. You're going to leave the doctor in a completely different universe than the one you grew up in. You're going to go from talk about multiverse. You just popped into a brand new multiverse.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Truth. It's the truth. It's the truth. Like the whole bubble of ignorance that you subconsciously built around yourself to avoid experiencing the terror of your own mortality. It's like a meteorite in the form of your doctor talking to you just shatters that thing. And now you're like, especially with I had testicular cancer. So when you get the diagnosis. It's just like the movies. The doctor took me in his office and you just know I got cancer. It's like you don't even have to say. It's like, I know what you're about to say. I'm in the office. I know how this goes. But you go in there, and what you were thinking, ah, you know, probably just have some weird thing in my ball. That's why it's swollen up like that. Anytime I've gone to the doctor, you always leave. Like, oh, cool, I'm fine.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When they started saying on average, this is how many years you're going to live if you're a human being. Man, that is like really bad because a lot of people hear that and they feel like that's a guaranteed number of years and some temporal bank. They have access to. And when you get cancer, that's like when you get the alert on your phone or you're like, what the fuck? Wait, what? I have either I don't know how much money is in that bank account or I have way less than I thought and so at that point you get to be in the truth because that's ultimately I think that's”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Your clothes are probably going to last longer than you. Your equipment is going to be around much longer than you. So forgetting these things, it can lead you, and I know why people don't want to think about death because it's scary. It's fucking scary. It's terrifying. So I get why people don't want to think about it. But the idea is if I try to pretend I'm not going to die or just don't think about death or don't at least address it, then I won't feel scared, but it can have the opposite effect, which is you can end up like missing a lot of moments. Or you start doing the old kick the can down the road thing where you're like coming up with a variety of ways to procrastinate, making it work now because this fucking human lifespan idea, man, it's really caused a lot of problems.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We were just in the Ukraine And you are making observations on this what could If you heard about it and weren't there, it seemed like it doesn't make any sense at all, which is people there are connecting. They've lost everything, but they're just happy to be alive. They're happy their friends are alive. So you witness this like, you know, when you get in the cancer club and you're hanging out with people going through cancer who have survived cancer, you see this beautiful connection with life that can easily sort of, you can kind of lose that connection with life if you forget you're going to die. Forgetting you're going to die or that you can die is not just, I think, from an evolutionary perspective where survival is the game. Not going to improve your survival chances, you know, if you think you're immortal, you know, but also for getting that you're going to die and that everything is around you and everything.”
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“Never had that. And that, you know, that is. Based on an idea of like, this isn't the only life. We're always hanging out together. We always show up together.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, we have a name for that in the spiritual community. It's called Satsong, and it's, I love the idea. It's basically like if Nietzsche's idea of infinite recurrence is true, then you're a sat song would be the people you've been infinitely recurring with. And those are the people where you run into them and you've never met them. But it's like you're picking up a conversation that”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not great. I'm not saying a friendship is something where you're always critiquing or evolving each other. It's not your therapist or whatever, but it's nice when it's there. You know, I think that's another aspect of friendship.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, whatever your particular art form or whatever you are doing. I mean, you don't want to always be leaning on your friends' opinions For your own innovation, but it's nice to know that you have someone who, not just with jokes, but with anything, if you go to them and run something by them, they're going to like They're going to be honest with you about their real feelings regarding that thing because that helps you grow as a person. We need that And it hurts sometimes, and we don't want to hurt our friends. One of the more satanic impulses when you're with somebody is not wanting to honestly answer whatever they're asking in that regard or wanting to put their temporary feelings over something that you've recognized as maybe”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source