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Michael Malice: belief

25 Nov 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #402 – Michael Malice: Thanksgiving Pirate Special

“If things are going bad and you feel bad, that makes sense. But when I think of depression, I think of someone who feels bad when things aren’t bad.”

— Michael Malice

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Speaker
Michael Malice
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
25 Nov 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Like low points. Yeah. But I think I distinguish depression between low points, right? If things are going bad and you feel bad, that makes sense. But when I think of depression, I think of someone who feels bad when things aren’t bad. To me, it’s almost by definition irrational. Well, yeah. And there’s different kinds of… There’s a exhausted kind of depression where it’s not so much sad as you don’t want to do anything. You don’t want to live. You don’t want to-…

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