Lex Fridman: belief

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…That’s exactly right. I must say, I think it is a pity if having produced such wonderful languages in the world that their use is so inhibited. I think the right way to think about it is the way the British Museum thinks about it. So you’re commenting on the ephemeral, on the thing that is in the moment right now is happening. The reality is only a few select things will last a hundred, 200 years from now about this moment in time. And so we have to sort of think with the big picture perspective and the slowness of time. Yes, in the moment there are these catastrophes, there are changing ways of speaking, the technology tearing apart the fabric of society, but when you zoom out…You will think about the grand ideas of Einstein, the battle of ideologies with communism and Nazism of the 20th centuries. The bad, the triumphant, the rockets. Humans started launching rockets, going to the moon, maybe to Mars. Those things. And we won’t be thinking about emojis and any of that. And in some sense, that’s the stuff you’re looking at with cuneiforms, is the things that stand the test of time, that are there. That’s true. But I think that language, properly used, is a crucial human tool for communication.…

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