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Duncan Trussell

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  1. “What if the James Webb version of this for some advanced civilization is not that they're like looking at the nebula or whatever, but they're actually able to peer into the past and via some bizarre technology recreate whatever life simulate, whatever life was happening there just by decoding that quantum energy, whatever it is. I'm only saying quantum because it's what dumb people say when they don't know. You just say quantum. I don't know. But you know what I mean? You're decoding that.”

    2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “Sounds so dumb, but I was at the dentist getting nitrous oxide high as a fucking kite, man. And I had this idea. I was thinking about data. I was thinking like, man, probably if I had to bet, there's some energetic form that we're not aware of that for an super advanced technology would be as detectable as like starlight, but something that we just don't even know what it is. Quantum turbulence, who the fuck knows? Fill in the blank, whatever that x may be. But assuming that exists, that somehow data, even the most subtle things, the tiniest movements, whatever it may be, the imanations of your neurological process energetically, whatever it may be, is radiating out into space-time, then.”

    2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “That's right. This is in Buddhism, you know, the idea that I struggle with is that there's a possibility of not reincarnating, of not coming back. That's the idea. This is suffering here. Suffering is caused by attachment. And so You revise the idea of reincarnation or the Nietzsche's loop and look at it from, could this be possible or how would this be possible technologically, then To me, it makes a lot of sense. I've been thinking a lot about this very thing and Nietzsche's idea connecting to it. I had this like.”

    2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Yeah, because that is going to be, even before I get into the metaphysics and the implications and where is this life stored? Where's the loop stored? I mean, are we talking about some kind of unchanging data set or something? For that, you're like, why is there a fucking talking demon in my room trying to freak me out? You're going to want to autopsy the demon. Can you catch it? Does this apply to you, demon? And again, obviously, it's a fucking thought experiment. Nietzsche would be annoyed by me. But I think like you would still be able to entertain the joy. You'd have the joy of not knowing what's around the corner. You know still, it's not like you know what's coming just because the demon said it's some kind of loop. In other words, the idea being damned to your past decisions, it doesn't even work because you can't remember what decisions you're about to make. From that perspective also, I think I'd be happy about it or I would just think, oh, cool. I mean, it's a good story. I'm going to tell people about how this.”

    2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Now, also in his experiment, if I was going to, and I love the experiment from the perspective of just where technology is now and simulation theory and stuff like that, but in that thought experiment, if this rotten demon immediately killed you, then within that it's a little more horrifying because even in the, first of all, you're trusting a fucking demon.”

    2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “That's it. Yeah, this is in Hades when you die, there's a river. I think it's called Leith. You ever heard of this? L-E-T-H-E. You drink from it, and you don't remember your past lives. And then when you're reborn, it's fresh and you don't have to, I mean, just think of like the amount of psychological help you would need to get over all the bullshit that happened in prior life. Can you imagine if you're still resentful of something someone did to you in the fourteenth century? But it would compound.”

    2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “Oh yeah, for sure, definitely. I mean, also that thing you're talking about, he kind of leaves out maybe on purpose because the thought experiment starts falling apart a little bit, the amnesia between each loop. So, you know, the whole thing gets wiped. Now, if the amnesia wasn't there, and yet somehow you were witnessing the non-autonomy implicit in what he's talking about. So you have to kind of watch yourself go through this rotten loop, then, yeah, that's a description.”

    2022-08-16 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source