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Martine Rothblatt

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first: 2024-06-25
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“Realistic. We built this project, and since that time, being a 48 has thrilled audiences all around the world. I'm sure she has inspired hundreds of, not thousands, of girls to go into computer science. And she continues to get better and better, more and more advanced software.”
2024-06-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #749: Michael Lewis and Martine Rothblatt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You've got it perfectly. So bean is the name of my partner. We've been married for about 40 years. And when she was 48, we undertook a joint project to try to create a digital simokra or a digital copy of her basic personality with a lot of her memories and thoughts. And we thought this would be a very nice project as a combination of science and art to encourage young people, get them more excited about computer science and women in particular, girls in particular. So we contracted with a couple of companies who were experts in both the software engineering side and in the physical modeling of a face that moves exactly like a human face does. You might imagine there's an exhibit at Disney World Disneyland of like Lincoln and whatnot, something like that.”
2024-06-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #749: Michael Lewis and Martine Rothblatt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I did. I thought it was an accurate depiction of a likely way that sentience would begin to arise in our society, basically by being very, very useful to people, cleaning up their inboxes, stuff like that.”
2024-06-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #749: Michael Lewis and Martine Rothblatt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I was watching that movie, which kind of is interesting to me because it epitomized or episualized the concept of computers becoming sentient. And in the middle of that movie, there's a scene in which Alan Watts appears. And I stood up in the movie theater and I said, oh my God, Alan Watts.”
2024-06-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #749: Michael Lewis and Martine Rothblatt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was first introduced to it through the literature of this philosophy called transhumanism, sort of the idea that people can transcend some biological human limitations. A friend of mine, Frank Sazanowski, who is the head of the National Organization on Rare Diseases, pointed me in the direction of some Jesuits. He himself is both a Jesuit and an FDA lawyer, but he pointed me in the direction of some Jesuits such as Thar Duchardin from France and other individuals here in the US. And then from those Jesuits, they referred to Alan Watts. I'm not sure if he was actually a Jesuit, but he undertook some religious training, both in China, I think, and in the US. He was a radio announcer for many years in San Francisco, I think during the 70s or 80s. I don't know if you remember Tim, the film of a few years ago Her, in which a computer.”
2024-06-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #749: Michael Lewis and Martine Rothblatt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes, thanks, Tim. Alan Watts has a really unique ability to see the dialectic aspect of everything in nature. By that I mean that there's a kind of a yin-yang aspect to everything in nature. And he points out that, for example, you can't have a crest of a wave without the bottom of a wave. And it has helped me whenever I see things in life that seem negative to be able to look at it in another way and see the positive in it.”
2024-06-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #749: Michael Lewis and Martine Rothblatt · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT