Lex Fridman: belief

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…Yeah, exactly. Knife is getting sharper and sharper. I’ll argue with my brother about that. Sometimes he takes the more positive view and I’m like, “I mean it’s great. We’ve done great,” but man, more and more people with nuclear weapons and more… It’s just going to take one mistake with the more power. I think there’s something about the sharpness of the knife’s edge that gets humanity to really focus, and step up, and not screw it up. There is just like you said with the, cold going out into the extreme cold, it wakes you up. And I think it’s the same thing when nuclear weapons, it just wakes up humanity. Not everybody was half asleep.…

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