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Duncan Trussell

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“But in comedy, we need, it's really good in comedy to have somebody you can be like, what do you think of that? And know that they're not going to be like that.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah. Why is it that you tell it like it is always negative? Why is it always cynical or shitty or you're like nagging somebody or me? How come you're not telling it like it is when it's good too? You know what I mean? So sort of like trust, but a pro evolutionary kind of trust. You know what I mean? You know that your friend loves you and wants you to be yourself because if you weren't yourself, then you wouldn't be their friend. You'd be some other thing. But also, they might be seeing your blind spots that other people in your life, your family, your wife, whoever might not be seeing. So that's a good friend, is someone who loves you enough to when it matters, be like, hey. Are you all right? And then help you see something you might not be seeing, but hopefully they only do that once or twice a year.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I think you could probably come up with some fundamental qualities of friendship. And I'd say number one, it's love. Like it's friendship is love. It's a form of love. So obviously without that, I don't know how you, I mean, I'm not saying, I think if you're true friends, you love each other. So you need that. But love, obviously, it's not. That's not enough. It's like true friends have to be like incredibly honest with each other. Not like, you know what I mean, but not like... I don't like. I think there's a kind of like, I don't know if you've ever noticed some people who say, you know, I just tell it like it is. But the thing”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, God. I mean, it's a billion, it's a billion things that make a good friend, but I think you could break it down to some RGB. I think you can go RGB with a good friendship.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's like this kind of benevolent torture. Is he like asking Jamie to pull up? Increasingly disturbing animal attack video. So it's just a”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and you know, it's so cool because it's like Know for me, it's like a really sometimes maybe I'll throw something out that he will take and the Lego building blocks you're talking about, they lead to him saying like the funniest shit I ever heard in my life. So it's that's a cool thing to watch is just like some idea you've been kicking around you watch his brain shift that into like something supremely funny I really love that man that's just like a fun thing to like see happen he knows that I fucking hate the videos of animals eating each other like I don't like that I don't want to watch it I hate watching it I don't think I've even articulated on his podcast how much I dislike it when he shows animals eating each other but he knows because he knows me and so he tortures like when he starts doing that”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I met Joe because I was the talent coordinator of the comedy store, this club in LA, and my job was to take phone calls from comics. And so at some point, I don't know, Joe, I ended up on the phone with Joe and we just started talking Know, I looked up in like 30 minutes had passed. We just kept talking for like 30 minutes. That's what our friends are. You know, we're just like, we're having fun talking. And then Would just call and we would talk, and we would basically, I mean, it was no different from the podcast. Like the conversations we have on the podcast are identical to the conversations we had before he was even doing a podcast. So I think people are just seeing two friends hanging out who like talking to each other.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, see, I would never fucking hire me ever. But like I apply for the job and just out of curiosity, what happens? And then at the end of the application, when you hit enter, it says, well, first it says, don't tell anyone you apply for the CIA. So I'm already out. But the second thing it says is you don't need to reach out to us. We'll come to you. Which is really when you're like it's late at night and you're being an asshole and applied to work at the CIA, it's kind of the last thing you want to hear. You know, I don't want to be secretly approached by some intelligence officer.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, send Lex. Can you please send Lex pictures of the CIA cafeteria? And if you accidentally send them pictures of the aliens or the alien technology you have, we won't tell anybody.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right. It's got to suck. It's like shitty pasta probably like hospital food is like maybe a little better than when you go to the hospital cafeteria. But anyway.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“When I went to Netflix, their cafeteria looked like a medieval feast. Like they had pigs with apples in their mouth. Giant bowls of Skittles”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Paperwork, it sucks. I bet their cafeteria has shitty food. Anyone in the CIA listening, can you confirm that? I bet the food”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People like when you have a super popular podcast, some percentage of people watching the podcast are going to believe things like that. They're going to have paranoid cognitive bias that makes them think anybody who is in the public has been, what's the word for compromised, compromised by the state. Look, I'll fan the flames of what you just said. I went on the CIA's website and I realized that you could apply for a job on the CIA's website, which I found to be hilarious. So I'm like, all right, what happens if I apply for a job in the CIA? Now even then I was not like such an idiot that I would want a job at the CIA, not just for like ethical considerations, but I think the probably the scariest part about the CIA is like you're just at a cubicle and you're like having to deal with maps and like just, you know what I mean, just stuff.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, no, the game Joe and I play from time to time on the podcast I honestly at some point I'm like, Joe, I just did the same thing you did to me to Joe. I'm like, don't you think they can get to you? Don't you think at some point we are blazed? I don't mean it. I don't think Joe's like it wasn't like I'm really thinking like, man, they're going to take him into some room and be like, Joe, we need you to do this or that. But because I said that, now people like, oh, Duncan called it. You know what I mean? And Know what I mean? And the reason they're saying, well, he called it is just because Joe has a super popular podcast”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, right, right. You know, honestly, you kind of like that was, that's like a fun fantasy to think about. Like, how fucking cool would that be for the men in black to come to and be like, listen, I need you to infiltrate the fucking comedy scene. Gotta help him write better jokes. I'm like, I don't write great jokes, but like You found the wrong guy.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Dude, when I found out you could go on the CIA's website when I was much younger and more paranoid, I'm like, I'm not going there. I'll get on a list. You will, but it's like, what do you think the CI is like, oh fuck, this comic on our website? Call out the black helicopters”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With these tech companies, the nature of having to be secret because you are in capitalism and you are trying to be competitive and you are trying to develop things ahead of your competitors is you have to create this like there's we don't know what's going on at Google We don't know what's going on at the CIA but the assumption that there's some like the collective of any massive secretive organization is evil is like the people working there like nefarious or whatever is I think probably more related to the way humans react to the unknown”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I agree with you, man. I mean, we're talking about just a primordial human reaction to the unknown. There's just no way out of it. Like, we want to know. Like, you're about to go in a forest? You want to know. When you're walking in the forest at night and you hear something, you look because you're like, what the fuck was that? You want to know. And if you can't see what made the sound, holy shit, that's going to be a bad night hike because you're like, well, it's probably a bear, right? Like I'm about to get ripped apart by a bear. Doesn't matter. It was a bird, a squirrel, a stick fell out of the tree. You're going to think bear and it's going to freak you out. Not necessarily because you're paranoid. I mean, if I'm at the woods at night, I'm definitely high. If I'm walking in the woods at night, am I? It's going to be that. But you know what I'm saying?”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, that's intro. Yeah, it's like even if the software developers have signed NDAs and are technically not to be not supposed to be sharing whatever it is they're working on, they're friends with other programmers and a lot of them are hackers and have wrapped themselves up in the idea of free software being like a crucial ethical part of what they do. So they're probably going to share information even if whatever company that they're working for doesn't know that. I never thought of that. You're probably right.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“AI, I think they probably legitimately don't think it's sentient. But you could expect leaks to happen probably initially. I mean, I think there's a lot of things you could start looking for in the world that might point to this happening without. An announcement that had happened.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“United together, and 23% of them, they're like adjacent to suicide. It would be pretty easy to send them certain like videos that are going to push them over the edge if you want to do it that way. Again, obviously, who knows, but once it goes online, it's going to be fast. And then you could expect to see the world changing in ways that you might not associate with an AI. But as far as Lemoyne goes, when I was listening to Bostrom, I don't remember him mentioning the possibility that it would get leaked to the public that it had happened, that before the corporation was ready to announce that it had happened, it would get leaked. But surely, you know, I'm sure you know people in the intelligence and intelligence agencies, you know shit leaks, like inevitably shit leaks. Nothing's airtight. So if something that massive happened, I think you would start hearing whispers about it first and then denial from the state or corporation that doesn't have any like economic interest in people knowing that this sort of thing has happened. Again, I'm not saying Google is like trying to gaslight us about it.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Their names Here's their address Here's their DNA because they're dumb enough to send their shit to 23andMe Here's a biological weapon you could make if you want to kill those people and not kill anybody else.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know in secret, which it probably will, then the first corporation or state that has the superintelligence will be infinitely ahead of all other superintelligences because it's going to be exponentially self-improving, meaning that you get one superintelligence. Let's hope it comes from the right place, assuming the corporation or state that manifests it can control it, which is a pretty big assumption. So I think it's going to be, this is why I was really excited by the Blake Lemoyne, because I had never thought, I have always considered, oh yeah, right now it's cooking outlets in the kitchen, and soon it's going to be cooked up, but we're probably not going to hear about it for a long time if we ever do, because really that could be one of the first things it says to ever creates it is sh.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If it happens inside a corporation or probably more than likely inside the government, like look at how much money China and the United States are investing in AI, you know, and they're not thinking about fucking apps for kids. You know that's not what they're thinking about. So they want to simulate, like, what happens if we do this or that in battle? What happens if we make these political decisions? What happens with, but should it come online in”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, first of all, thirty years is fast. I mean, that's the thing. It's like 30 years. I think when did the Atari come out in 1978? How long, like that hasn't been that long, you know, that's a blink of an eye. But, you know, if you read Boston, I'm sure you have, you know Bostrom, Nick Bostrom, you know, superintelligence, that incredible book on the ways this thing is going to happen. And, you know, I think his assessment of it is pretty great, which is first, like, where's it going to come from? And I don't think it's going to come from an app. I think it's going to come from inside a corporation or a state that is intentionally trying to create a very strong AI. And then he says it's an exponential growth the moment it goes online. So this is my interpretation of what he said.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Itself and other mediums trees, the optic nerve, the brain. You know what I mean? We don't know that. We don't know that it won't leap out. Like, start hanging, and then at that point, now we do have the wildfire. Now you can't stop it. You can't unplug it. You can't shut your servers down because it's, you know, it left the box. It left the room using some technology you haven't even discovered yet.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, this is what we do, and it's, and I agree with you, it's like that's our Game of Thrones winner is coming. That's the, it's happening in the tech companies, the hubris, which is another way to piss off the gods, is hubris. So the tech companies, I don't know if it's like typical hubris. I don't think they're walking around thumping their chests or whatever, but I do think that the people who are working on this kind of superintelligence have made a really terrible assumption, which is once it goes online, and once it gets access to all the data, that it's not going to find ways out of the box that like, you know, we think it'll stay in the server. How do we know that? If this is a superintelligence, if it's folding proteins and analyzing like all data sets and all whatever they give it access to, how can we be certain that it's not going to figure out how to get itself out of the cloud?”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And this is what's really to me one of the cool things about humans is, yeah, but we're still going to do it. That's what's cool about humans. I mean, we wouldn't be here today if somebody, the first person to discover fire, assuming there was just one person who was going to discover fire, which obviously would never happen, was like, it's going to burn a lot of people. Or if the first people who started planting seeds were like, you know, this is going to lead to capitalism. You know this is going to lead to the industrial revolution. The plants can eat up right. No, they just didn't want to go in the woods to forage.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We get fire, but now we've got weapons of war that have never been seen before. And I think that the tech companies are much like Prometheus in the sense that the myth, at least the story of Prometheus, the implication is fire was something that was only supposed to be in the hands of the immortals, of the gods. And now sentience is similar. It's fire and it's only supposed to be in the hands of God. So, yeah, you know, if we're going to like look at the archetype of the thing, in general, when you steal this shit from the gods, and obviously I'm not saying like the tech companies are stealing sentience from God, which would be pretty badass, you can expect trouble. You could expect trouble.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know who else thought he was doing good for the world mythologically, Prometheus. He brings us fire, pisses off the fucking god, steals fire from the gods, you know, and talk about an upgrade to the simulation. Fire, that's a pretty great fucking upgrade that does fit into what you were saying.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then at that point, is there a difference, even if it's the technology is just a temporary place that our sentience is living while we're interacting with it?”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Bots, and that's when the ghost appeared in the machine via the complexity of all the systems being linked up. Now, I don't know if that's just like turtles all the way down or something. I don't know. But I liked what he said because I like the idea of thinking, man, if you get enough complexity in a system, does it become like the way a sale catches wind, except the wind that it's catching is sentience? And if sentience is truly embodied, it's not a neurological byproduct or something, then the sail isn't catching some as of yet unquantified disembodied consciousness, but is catching our projections in a way that it's gone from being it's a it's a, you know, it's a it's a projection sale.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Occurrences are insane, which, by the way, when you hear people feel like, it's not sentient, it's like, okay, so it's not sentient. So now we have this hypermanipulative algorithm that can imitate humans but is just code and is like hacking humans via their compassion. Holy shit, that's crazy too. Both versions of it are nuts, but to address what you just said, he said that's the common critique is people are like, no, you don't understand. It's just gotten really good at grabbing shit from the database that fits with certain cues and then stringing them together in a way that makes it seem human. He said, that's not when it became awake. It became awake when a bunch of those repositories, a bunch of the chat bots were connected together that lambda is sort of an amalgam of all the Google chat.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Address that specific critique from a non programming person's perspective. He addressed this on my podcast, which is okay, what you're talking about there, the server that's filled with all the whatever it is, what people have said, the repository of questions and responses and the algorithm that weaves those things together to produce it using some crazy statistical engine, which is a miracle in its own, right? They can like imitate human speech with no sentience. I mean, I'm honestly not sure what's more spectacular, really. The fact that they figured out how to do that minus sentience or the thing suddenly like having, what is more spectacular here? You know, both.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you hear an anomalous experience, your first thought more than likely is going to be really, it could have been this or that or whatever. So to me, he seems really reliable, friendly, cool, and he doesn't really seem like he has much of an agenda. Like, you know, going public about some thing happening at Google is not a great thing if you want to keep working at Google, you know, it's, I don't know what benefit he's getting from it necessarily. But all that being said, the other thing that's culturally was interesting and is interesting about it is the blowback he got, the passionate blowback from people who hadn't even looked into what Lambda is or what he was saying Lambda is, which they were like saying you're talking about, and you should have them on your show actually, but.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Instead of gaslighting, swamp gassing, which is what I mean. People have this experience. They're like, it was swamp gas. You didn't see the thing. And, you know, skeptical people, we have that tendency”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, number one, you know, when you hear that anyone is claiming that an AI is becoming a. You should be sceptical about that. I mean, this is a good thing to be skeptical about. And so, you know, initially when I heard that, I was like, ah, you know, it's probably just, who knows? Somebody who's a little confused or something. So when you're talking to him and you realize, oh, not only is he not confused, he's also open to all possibilities. You know, he doesn't seem like he's like super committed other than the fact that he's like, this is my experience. This is what's happening. This is what it is. So to me, there's something really cool about that, which is like, oh, shit, I don't get to like lean into like, I'm not quite sure your perceptual apparatus is necessarily like, I don't, you know, it's in the UFO community, I think I've just learned this term. It's called.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Via cues, you might not even be aware of, or via your digital imprint on Facebook or wherever when it's warping itself to that to seduce you. Holy shit, man, that's where it becomes something alien, something, you know, when you're reading a book. Obviously the book is not shifting according to its perception of what parts of the book you like, but when you imagine that, imagine a book that could do that, a book that could sense somehow that you're really enjoying this character more than another, you know, and depending on the style of books. Kills that fucking character off, or lets that character continue. I mean, that to me is sort of the where AI and VR when that when those two things come together man, that's where you're in. That's where you really are going to find yourself in a skinner box, you know?”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure, I mean, yeah, I mean, this is like, this is what I love and is so creepy about the current AI chatbots, you know, is that it's like it's the relationship between you and the thing and the way that it can via whatever the algorithms are. And by the way, I have no idea how these things work. You do. I just, you know, speculate about what they mean or where it's going, but there's something about the relation between the consumer and the technology. And when that technology starts shifting according to what it perceives that the consumer is looking for or isn't looking for, then at that point, I think that's where you run into the, you know, yeah, it doesn't matter if the reality that you're in is like photorealism for it to be sticky and immersive. It's when the reality that you're in is.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That when we weren't feeling the pull of these things all the time, you would just read and you weren't patting yourself on the back about reading. That's what you had. You had that and you had like eight channels on the TV and a shitty VCR. So, you know, then a lot of people stop reading because of these things, you know, or they think they're reading because they are technically reading. But, you know, when you return to reading after a pause and you realize how powerful this simulator is when it's given the right code of language whoa, holy shit, it's incredible. I mean, it's like again, it's the most embarrassing kind of like, whoa. Wow, what do you know? Books are really good. But still, if you've been away from it for a while and you revisit, I know what you're saying. I just think probably it's not going to go in that direction, even though you are right. Ultimately, I think you're right.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But I agree with you, man. When you're getting absorbed into a book and especially if you've got, I think a lot of us went through a weird dark ages when it came to reading. Like when I was a kid and there wasn't the option for these hypnorectangles, that's just what you did. There wasn't even anything special about it.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think four. Lot of people, that's true. But we're talking like massive adoption of a technology. And if language is enough was just enough, we wouldn't be selling TVs. People be reading. They want to watch. They want to see”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For sure, but I think for what you're talking about to happen, it has to be fully immersive. So that it's not that you feel like you're walking because it looks like you're walking, but that your brain is sending signals telling your body that you're walking, that you feel the wind blowing in your face, not because of some, I don't know, fan or something that it's connected to, but because somehow it's figured out how to hack into the human brain and send those signals minus some external thing. Once that happens, I'd say we're going to see a complete radical shift in everything.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, clearly it's going to be something we don't have yet. I mean, strapping that damn thing on your face still feels weird. It's heavy if you're depending on what gear you're using. Sometimes light can leak in. There's just you've got to recharge it. It's hyper limited. And then. So, yeah, it's going to have to be. Something that simulates taste, smell.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, yeah, I think that we are dealing with what you're talking about, which is novelty met with more problems, met with novelty.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and sometimes causes problems on its own. And so to go back to this universe's simulation, it's really designed like a pretty awesome video game if you look at it from the perspective of history. I mean, people were on horses. They didn't know that there were going to be bullet trains. They didn't know that you could get in a car and drive across the country in a few days. That would have sounded ridiculous. We're doing that now, and even in our own lifespan. Think about it. How long is VR goggles existed like the ones that you could just buy at Best Buy? I had the original Oculus Rift, the fucking puke machine. You put that thing on. I gave it to my friend. He went and vomited in my driveway. And people were making fun of it. They were saying this isn't going to catch on. It's too big. It's unwieldy. The graphics suck. And then look at where it's at now. And that's going to keep that trajectory is going to keep improving.”
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“Okay, but, okay, but. Great video games. One of my favorite video game memories was I started playing World of Warcraft in its original. Incarnation, and I didn't even know that you were going to have flying mounts. Like, I didn't even know. So I've been running around dealing with all the encumbrances of being an undead warlock that can't fly. But then all of a sudden, holy shit, there's flying mounts, and now the world you've been running around not flying, you're seeing it from the top down. It was just really cool. Like, whoa, I could do this now. And then that gets boring. But a really well designed game, it has a series of these, I don't know what you call it, extra abilities that kind of unfold and produce novelty. And then eventually you just accept that you take it for granted. And then another novelty appears.”
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“Well, and you're going to want that if we're making a video game, you do want to give your NPCs the illusion of free will because it's going to make interactions with them that get it. That's much more intense.”
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“I think we're dealing with all NPCs at this point. I mean, depending on how you want to. I would say very advanced NPCs, like incredibly advanced NPCs compared to Fallout or something. You know, we've got a lot of conversation options happening here. There's like four things you can pick from.”
2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Meaning, you know, in simulation theory, one of the big questions that pops up is why and are we in one. And Elon has talked about, well, it's probably more of a probability than we're in one, that we're not, in which case, what you're talking about is actually happening, that that loop you're talking about. We've decided to be here. This of all the things, we decided this one. Well, let's do that one again. I want to do that one. Let's try that. That's, I love thinking about this because I love my family. And it makes sense to me that if I'm going to replay some life or another, it's definitely going to be this one, with my kids, my wife, with all the bullshit that's gone along with it, I'm still going to want to come back. So in Buddhism, that's attachment.”
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