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Yaron Brook

lines on the record: 267
first: 2021-04-24
most recent: 2021-04-24
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Well, who are you What do you mean by what any of your words mean? What does anything you say even mean if it doesn't refer to something that's actually out there in reality”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Frustrated. I just think it's completely wrong, and it's anti life, anti-minded, anti-evolution. I think he's an anti-evolutionist at the end. And I think, you know, anytime you say, look, here's the important point. Anytime you say reality doesn't exist.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And he is basically just presenting pseudoscience to defend Kant's position about epistemology and about metaphysics. And there's nothing original there. And he puts up a bunch of equations and he says, I ran a simulation and it proves I'm right.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Donahoffen is the University of California Irvine neurologist, neuroscientist, something like that. So I met him once and we were at one of these conferences where you do a quick intro. You sit and you're doing a quick intro. Here's an introduction was I've just written a book that proves that evolution has conditioned us not. To see reality”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's trying to undermine the foundations that make the revolution possible, that make freedom and individualism possible. He's trying to destroy the Enlightenment. And the Enlightenment are those ideas that make freedom, individualism feasible. He's trying to undermine reason. And without reason, we're nothing. We can't survive as a species. And that's why she thought he was the most evil person, because his ideas undermined the very foundations of what it requires to be a human being. Reason and individualism. Those are the things she's trying to eviscerate. I know you've talked about Hoffman before. So Hoffman is a modern day attempt to Donald Hoff”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, that I know. I mean, it's a big deal that Immanuel Akant is, and most people don't understand why, because if you read Kant, there's certain passages in Kant that sound pretty liberal. They sound pretty, he's for the individual, it sounds like he's for the individual. He sounds like he's for the American Revolution, things like that. But when you actually read his philosophy and what he's trying to defend and what he's trying to undermine,”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, he knows exactly where it's going to lead. And this is why people say, oh, Marx is not evil. He just wrote books. No. It's the people who write books who are responsible for the way history evolves. And they know the bad guys certainly know the consequence of their ideas. And they need to bear the moral responsibility for what happens when the ideas are implemented.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, absolutely. I mean, there are letters between him and Engels where they talk about which peoples will have to be eliminated because they don't have that proletarian thing, right? So I think certain peoples in Southern Europe are not appropriate for the utopia to come and will have to be gone.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then, so take Lenin. Lenin, I think, is a better example because Lenin's more intellectual, if you will. But Lenin needs his goons. He needs his Stalins. But Lenin also needs his Marx. And we don't want to let Marx off the hook because Marx knows, I think, implicitly that his ideas have to lead to Lenin and Stalin. His ideas are not neutral.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“They need their goons, but also they don't have original ideas. Nothing Stalin says is original to him. He needs a Mox, even Lenin, right? They all need a Mox, right? And Marx needs a particular line of thinkers that come before him that set him up for these kind of ideas. So Stalin both needs his goons, even though he's somewhat of a goon, particularly Stalin.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The mystic, the philosopher, the intellectual, the philosopher king is a unity, and you have an Attila. You have somebody who wants to control other people, who's willing to use force to control other people, and when those two get together, that's when things go bad. And unfortunately, 95, 98% of human history is when those two are together. And so the not having them together, having the right ideas and the right ideas are ones that are not exclusive to those guys and where we don't allow Attila to have that kind of physical power over us, that's an exception and that's rare and that's what needs to be defended.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, I think we go wrong when people try to understand the world around them and come up with wrong ideas. And it's natural that they would come up with wrong ideas because it's hard to figure out what's right. So we start with trying to come up with mystical explanations for the existence of the things around us. And that, I think, very quickly leads to some people being able to communicate with the mystical stuff out there and some people not being able to communicate.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that's right. I think that's right. Plus, I think the perception out there, the perception and the culture of men as being rational was a complim That was affirming that he viewed her as a rational.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Underneath it all, the fact is that to survive as a species, we need to think. We need to be rational. And if we don't have any respect for reason, then we would all die. We would die”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, to the extent that they're bad people, bad people are dealt with, right? So, this is true of all of, you know, how did we survive as a species, right? How have we survived as a species? We've been on a desert island in a sense as a species forever. Tribes survived. They survived by cooperation. They survived by dealing with bad people. Civilization is created by people cooperating and working together and allowing individuals to thrive within the group. And when bad people arise, they deal with them. Now, sometimes these groups get captured by bad people and bad ideas. And probably from day one, that was going on. The whole tribe is probably a bad idea to begin with.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Survival. Survival. Survival, basically. Survival and getting out of there, right? You don't want to stay on the desert island. So, yeah, I don't think that's true of any three. Semi rational people who basically share the goal that they want to survive, they want to thrive, they want to get off of the island. Why would there be Well, I mean, there would be conflict, and there can be conflict, but Ways to deal with it. I don't have this negative view of human beings, particularly not as individuals. It's when they get into mobs and groups and collectives that ideology can really motivate them to do horrible things.”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Thought the original question you had that you sent us this question was how long would it take for us to murder one another or something like that? There was murder in the question, if I remember. Listen”
2021-04-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #178 – Michael Malice and Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand, Human Nature, and Anarchy · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source