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Charan Ranganath: preference

25 May 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #430 – Charan Ranganath: Human Memory, Imagination, Deja Vu, and False Memories

“I think in the last version, it might’ve been that, or a Velvet Underground cover in our last show, I actually, I have a guitar made of aluminum that I got made, and I thought this thing’s indestructible.”

— Charan Ranganath

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Speaker
Charan Ranganath
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Claim type
preference
Recorded
25 May 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…That’s a good song. Which is perfect, because we’re Pavlov’s Dogs and Pavlov, of course, was basically created learning theory. So there’s that, but also it’s like, I mean, Iggy in the Stooges, that song, so I play and sing on it, but it’s just like it devolves into total noise, and I just fall on the floor and generate feedback. I think in the last version, it might’ve been that, or a Velvet Underground cover in our last show, I actually, I have a guitar made of aluminum that I got made, and I thought this thing’s indestructible. So I was just moving it around, had it upside down and all this stuff to generate feedback. And I think I broke one of the tuning pegs. Oh wow.…

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