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Zev Weinstein

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“As I said, we're here in part by Prince Bawn and part by accident, and a lot of the things which bring us joy are programmed to bring us joy to ensure our evolutionary success. And so Would not necessarily consider all of the things which bring us joy to be meaningful. Think they play a very obvious role in a clear pattern and we don't have much choice in that. I think that outrules the idea of joy being the meaning of life. I think it's... Think it's a nice thing we get to have Even if it's not inherently meaningful, I think. Most wonderful thing that we will ever be given Has been our ability to As I said, observe what Transcends us as humans. And I think to live a meaningful life is to see that and hopefully contribute to that.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One concrete implication for my belief in abstraction would be that we all need to be aware of our Our own deaths, and we need to understand concretely the boundaries of our lifetimes and no amount of experience can really motivate that. It has to be driven by thought and abstraction in theory.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Tying us back to our previous conversations about abstraction versus Experience, which is determining our notions of our life and our world death is interesting in that it is obviously hyper important to a person's life and it is something that for the most part no human will really experience and be able to reflect upon. Notions of death are sort of proof that if we want to make the most of our lives, we have to think abstractly and relying not at all at times on Experiential Thought and understand is because we can't really experience death and reflect upon it hence and use it to motivate us. It has to remain some sort of abstraction. And I think We have trouble comprehending true abstraction, we tend to view our lives as we tend to view ourselves as nearly immortal. And I think that's very dangerous.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That is the great struggle of my generation. Will we create our own paths that are capable of saving whatever is collapsing? Or will we be squashed by the debris? And I hope to articulate what patterns I see this struggle taking over the years that my generation becomes, particularly active in the world as an important force. I think already we're important as a demographic to particular markets, but I should hope that our voices will matter as well, starting very soon. I would try to think about that. That would be my advice.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure. I would say that with the collapse of systems that have existed for thousands of years, whatever is happening with universities might be an example of some system that may or may not be decaying. I think with the destruction of important systems. There is a unique opportunity to invest in oneself. And I think that is always the right approach provided that the investment one makes in hisself is obligated towards humanity as a whole. And I think that is...”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maybe, I mean, particularly if you're thinking about discipline in Method for improvisation. A million pieces that you could improvise with the same Discipline and how to approach that improvisation. So I think. Think that's true that discipline promotes freedom if you insert a layer of indirection. Because I think if you're trying to learn one piece that was written 400 years ago and you're playing it over and over again, there is nothing personable. Sorry, there's nothing personal or creative about that process, even if it's beautiful and satisfying. There has to be some sort of discipline applied to the creativity of self. So I think that is the layer of indirection which reconciles both approaches to freedom and discipline and enjoyment of music.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think that's because music is more effective. And I think you play, I'm positive that you play music much more correctly than I do. So if you are going to sit down and play something that you've learned, that piece will be much more satisfying to your ears and to your brain than if I were to play that piece just sitting down with an instrument. But it's sort of a trade-off with freedom and rigor because even if I should be spending more of my time practicing rigorously, I know I don't have to to make me happy.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think more people should be playing music. I think a lot of people don't realize how easy it can be to approach if you take a sort of unstandard approach.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think it's essentially taught me, even if I'll never be a great classical performer, that there is nothing one can't really teach themselves in this. In this era, so I've been enjoying whatever connection I have with music. The other thing I'll say about it is that it's a very rewarding learning process. We know, for example, that music accesses our neurochemicals very directly. And if you teach yourself a little bit of theory and are able to instantiate it on an instrument without wasting your time or spending your time tediously on learning the particulars of that instrument, you can instantly sit down and access your own dopamine loops. And so you don't really need to motivate yourself with music because, you know, like you're giving your brain drugs, who needs motivation to give themselves Drugs and learn something.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that gave me a very unique opportunity instead of spending my time fruitlessly at the beginning on the syntax of a particular instrument. This is how you, this is your posture on the piano, this is how you hold your fingers. I tried instead to learn what made music work. And the wonderful thing about that was I'm pretty sure that any instrument with discrete notes is mine for the taking within a day or so of having the ability to play with it. So I think approaching music abstractly gave me the ability to instantiate it everywhere. And I think it also taught me something about self-teaching. Recently I've tried getting into classical music because Least traditionally, this is the thing which is thought to require the most rigor and traditional teaching.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think the role music has played in my life was originally motivated by sort of wanting to prove things to myself. I really have no ear for music. I have a terrible sense of pitch and I think a lot of music relies on very standard teaching. If you think about lessons, for example, music lessons, there's sort of a routine to them which is so archaic and traditional that there's no room for deviation, I think. All of that suggested to me that I would never have a relationship with music. I loved listening to music. It was difficult to me. It sort of saddened me. I wanted to know if there was any way I could build a connection to music given who I am, my own idiosyncrasies. What challenges I have? I decided to try to learn music theory before I touched an instrument.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean, in some sense, optimism limits freedom. I think if we don't really have much choice in choosing what is perfect, if it exists as an ideal, then... There isn't much room for creativity, and that's a danger of optimism, as someone who would like to be creative. I think it was Warren Zvon said accepting dreams, you're never really free. And that's something I think about a lot. He's an interesting guy, also. I really like him.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's something that's difficult, but especially appearing in public as someone as young as I am, I think anything I do, which is juvenile by choice, will be held against me. But maybe that's a sacrifice that I have to make. I have to retain some sort of youthful hope and optimism.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I have an idea for how to be a better son. I think I'm inclined to try to be that person. I think that's true of almost anything. I think if I have ideas for improvement, it would be wasteful not to act on them. Suppose one thing I could say is that I think idealism and what could almost be considered naivete is not necessarily a A lacking of maturity, but instead. An obligation to those older than us who have. Lived and seen too much to. Fully believe in what is naive and right without Without the assistance of the young to reinspire traditional idealism. And so perhaps instead of trying to be more mature all the time, I should spend some time trying to be an idealistic form of hope in the lives of people who maybe have seen too much to retain all of that original hope.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Firstly, I'd like to say I'm sure before I figure out exactly what those are, I think whenever I come to conclusions on what that means, I'm eager to take them.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love my dad with the connection that I think I've had to very few things in the world. I think my dad is one of the people that's allowed me to see myself. And I don't know who I would imagine myself to be, if not for my dad. That isn't to say that I agree with him on everything. But I think he's given me courage to accept myself and to believe that I can... Teach myself where I'm unable to learn from convention. So I have a very, I love my dad very dearly. Yes.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If I was too unstandard as a child, he would invent his own way of parenting me because that was worth it to him. And I think that was very meaningful to me.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I will say also that I think I am probably a more cultured person having listened to Tom Lair than I would have been without, I think, a lot of his comedy draws upon a canon that I was really driven to research by saying, what does this mean? I don't understand that reference. There are a lot of references there to really. Really inspirational things which he sort of assumes going into a lot of his songs. And for many of us like me, you have to piece those things together, you know, looking at Wikipedia pages and whatnot. But to tie this back to the original question, I think Think there's sort of a break it you bought it notion of parenting. I think really if you're not going to accept a standard, you have to invent your own. And I think in some ways that was my dad's way of telling me that.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Likewise. Anyway, I remember, I think I was five or something. My dad came home with the CD, this Tom Laira CD, and he told me to listen to it. And it was all of this bizarre, satirical writing about prostitution and cutting up babies and like all kinds of ridiculously vile content for a five-year-old, I think. Beyond just my love of Tom Lair, I think it was a way for my dad to express that from a very young age, he was really ready to treat me like an adult and he was ready to trust me and share his life and his enjoyments with me in a way that was unconventional because he was willing to discard tradition for the chance at a really unique and meaningful parental relationship.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One person who's always sort of mattered to whatever weird life and experience I've had has been this comedian Tom Lahre. Do you know him?”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I guess you could put it that way. I don't know who I would believe I am if I didn't have my dad telling me that it wasn't my own stupidity, which alienated me from certain aspects of standard life. So I'm very, very thankful for that.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I would really like to learn from my dad there. I think also my dad has been very important to my life just because I've always been a sort of very idiosyncratic thinker. And I think I don't always know how to interact with the world for those sorts of reasons. And I think my dad has always been similar. And if not for my dad, I don't know if I would just believe that I was stupid or something. Because I wouldn't know how to, I don't know if I would know how to interpret my differences from convention.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just very careful and thoughtful. He brings that sort of attitude to, I think, really difficult conversations. And I know that I don't have that skill yet. I don't think I'm terrible.”
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“I think, as I said, there's this weird contrast of, you know, I know that he has ideas which I think are very beautiful. And I know he has to deal with the sort of... There's something you have to sacrifice in beauty when you bring it to a world which is not always beautiful. And there's an aspect of that which sort of scares me about this kind of thing. I also think that Especially since I'm trying to think about how I should appear publicly. My dad has been Very inspirational in that I think he's brings a sort of fastidious care to very difficult conversations that”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Also, very lucky that he gets to play with these sorts of things. It's a mixed bag. I both feel a little sorry for him for having to deal with the beauty as well as the... The smudging and the sloppiness of human expression and Think it's difficult not to envy such a beautiful Insight or life or vision.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think Know I've seen a little bit of what I think great math and great physics looks like. And it's unbelievably beautiful. And then you have to present it to a world with market constraints and all of this messy sloppiness. I feel bad in some sense for my dad because he has to go back and forth between this beautiful world of math and whatever the messiness is of his human life.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of great hope. It's not supposed to be my journey. It's supposed to be his journey. It's supposed to be his to express to the world. Obviously, I'm so proud that I'm connected to someone who is determined to do such a thing. And on the other hand, maybe in some sense, I feel bad for him for having to, if he's going to be the thing which discovers some sort of grand unified theory and expresses it, I feel sorry that he will have to smudge whatever Canvas this thing is because”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think if not, it will be people like you who invent Some sort of, I don't know, we'll call it computation for now that we'll be able to Not only discover that which transcends humanity, but to transcend human methods of discovering that which is above it.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Think it's essential. As I've said, I think ideation is our only escape from Constraints of human condition. And I think that it's important that all great thoughts and ideas are bound together. And I think the math is beautiful and it ensures that the things which bind great ideas which have already been had and great discoveries together, it ensures that those strings will be beautiful. I think it's very important to unify all theories that have brought us to where we are.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maybe if we interact with some intelligent life form, they will have their own unique smudges, but the canvas, which is beautiful, must be identical because that is universal and ubiquitous truth. And that's what makes it deep and meaningful is that it's so much more important than whatever we're programmed to enjoy as an aspect of human experience.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's completely discovered and completely fundamental to all experience. I think the only component of mathematics that has been invented is the expression of it. And I think in some sense, there's almost in arrogance required to believe that whatever aspect We invent having to do with math and physics and theory, there is an arrogance required to truly believe that that belongs on any sort of stage with the actual beauty of the matters being discovered. We need our minds, and in some sense our pens to be able to play with these things and communicate about them. Those hands and those pens are the things which smudge the most beautiful thing that humanity can ever experience.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“My least favorite aspect of math or physics or any of these really deep sciences is the symbolic component. I'm dyslexic. I don't like looking at symbols there too often a source of ambiguity. And I think you're entirely right that if one thing holds us back, Communication with something that behaves or looks nothing like us. I think if one thing holds us back, it will be symbols and the communication of deep thought because, as I said, I think communication frequently compromises thought by intention or by just theoretical inadequacy.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I try to, I almost try to pretend I'm blind and I'm deaf and I'm only a mind with no inductive reasoning, capacity when I'm trying to think about thought experiments like these because I know that if I incorporate whatever my eyes instruct my brain, I will I will impede my ability to Think as deeply as possible because once again, the thing which shallows our thought can be the incorporation of circumstance and coincidence. And for particular kinds of thought, that's very important. I'm not discounting the use of inductive reasoning in many humanities and in many sciences. But for the deepest of thoughts, once again, I feel it's important to try to transcend whatever methods of observation characterize human experience.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I notice that whenever I try to instantiate these abstractions, I corrupt whatever thoughts there are for which they're useful.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Can't say which is more interesting. I can say which I think is more deep. I think theory and abstraction, which can be achieved completely deductively, is deeper because it has nothing to do with circumstance and everything to do with logic and thought. Like, if we were ever to interact with aliens, for example, we would not have our biology in common if these were some sort of really intelligent life form, we would have math and physics in common because the laws of physics will be the same everywhere in the universe. anatomy and biology pertains only to life on this planet and the principles may apply more ubiquitously”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Honestly, I know very little about space exploration. I think it makes complete sense to me why we are starting to think very seriously about it. It's an amazing and baffling and innovative solution to a lot of problems we see as a world population. I can't really offer very much of interest on the topic. I think when I'm talking about transcending humanity and transcending earth, I'm talking. Usually about deriving truth. And that's one of the things that makes theoretical math and physics so interesting. It's like I really, really love biology, for example. But biology is a combination of whatever principles ensure evolution and whatever weird coincidences happened billions of years ago.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know that we will not survive without people like that Elon is Ridiculous and sensational example of one of these figures. I don't know if he's the best example or the worst example, but he is of his own kind. He is radically individualistic. And those are the people who will allow us to continue as humans. I'm very happy that we have people like that in this world.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“These two different notions of achievement. I don't know what I would more like to achieve. I have an inclination that it will be something scientific because I would like to bring meaning to humanity instead of sustenance. But I think both are very important. We can't sustain our lives if we don't keep growing technologically. I think people like you were making that possible with computing because that's one of the few things that's really moving forward in a clear sense. I think about this a great deal. So I think both are very important.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Happy and well fed and things of market value are invented. And so I think we really need both to live meaningful and successful and possible lives. In terms of who my greatest heroes are, I can't decide between figures like Einstein and Newton and Feynman and on the other hand figures like Carrie Mullis, for example, I think people like Einstein make our lives meaningful and people like Carrie Mullis, who's probably responsible for saving hundreds of millions of lives make our lives possible. Good. So In terms of where I would like to find myself.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that the most important gift we've ever been given is our ability to observe the universe and think deductively about whatever principles transcend humanity. Because as we discussed, that's the closest thing we will ever have to a universal experience is understanding things which must be true everywhere. In order for that so I think if we're deciding that life is meaningful and the human experience is meaningful, you could make a very convincing argument that its greatest meaning will be understanding whatever transcends it. Think that's only sustainable if people are”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It worries me On the other hand, it may be May be a better alternative to fighting for whatever people are clinging onto and are. Non virtual world, or at least the world that we don't yet know is virtual.”
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“It's a terrifying concept, and I hate to say it. We might live happier lives in a virtual reality headset 30 years from now than we are currently living.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So hug dairy, sir. If they're listening to this, they're clearly curious about possibilities of thought. It's not the bed and the chips that... Makes the”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so I mean, all of these existential thought experiments are completely possible. We could be brains and jars. It doesn't mean that our experience will feel any less valid. And so it doesn't make a difference to me if you're some number of ones and zeros or you are a figment of my imagination which lives in a stored away brain. It will never really change my experience knowing that that's a possibility. And so I try to I try to avoid making decisions based on such contemplations. You know, if we take this previous issue of free will. I could decide that because I have no choice in my life, if I lie around in bed all day and eat chips, I was destined to do that thing. And if I make that decision, then I was destined to do that thing. It would be a really poor decision for me to make. I have school and a dozen commitments.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think it's very easy to become fascinated with all of these possibilities. And they're completely legitimate possibilities. Is there some validity to solipsism while it can never be falsified or disproven? So, I mean, sure, you could be a figment of imagination. It doesn't mean that I will act according to this possibility. I'm not going to call you me names.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“There is something that feels close enough to a free will that it may not be worth. Spending too much time on the fact that it's something of an illusion we will never build a computer that knows everything about every piece of the universe at a given time. And so for all intensive purposes, our decisions are up to us. We just happen to know that their outcomes could be predicted with enough information.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Four dimensional crazy world we live in looks like if we were to understand where every piece of this system was at any given time and we understand the laws of motion how everything worked if we could compute all of that information somehow which we will never be able to do we would every decision you you will ever make could be predicted by that computer that doesn't mean that your decisions are illegitimate you are really making those decisions but with a completely predictable outcome”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, so if we were to have just a simple pendulum, and I told you how long the rope was, we froze it at a particular point and I told you how high above the ground the weight was and the motion of a pendulum is something which is easy for everyone to imagine. I could If we had all of that information, you could ask me where the pendulum do six and a half minutes from now. And we would have a precise answer. That's an example of a very simple system with a very simple Lagrangian. And We could completely predict the future. The pendulum has no ability to do anything that would surprise us. Weirdly, that's true of whatever this”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I think classical mechanics would tell us that if we were to know every piece of information about a system and understand the rules which govern that system, we would be completely able to predict the future with complete accuracy. Something could know everything about our lives, it could freeze time and understand the position of every neuron in my mind about to fire, no decision could be unpredictable. In some sense, there is that sort of fate. I think that doesn't make the decisions we make illegitimate even if some grand supercomputer could Understand what decisions we would make beforehand with complete certainty. I think we're making legitimate systems within a system that has no freedom.”
2021-02-05 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #158 – Zev Weinstein: The Next Generation of Big Ideas and Brave Minds · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know that The topic of conversation or the means by which a conversation is communicated or an idea is communicated, if that is sufficiently interesting to me. I will read a book on it. I would listen to a podcast on it. I would watch a video on it. I think if I'm very curious about something, I will consume it however possible. I think when I have to consume things which really don't interest me very much, I'm indeed much more ready to consume them through some sort of video or discussion than I am through, like a long, tedious book.”
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