Lex Fridman: belief

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…I hope not. I think that would be very dangerous to do. And I think also not the right use of the technology. I hope we’ll end up with something more collaborative if needed, more like a CERN project where it’s research-focused and the best minds in the world come together to carefully complete the final steps and make sure it’s responsibly done before deploying it to the world. We’ll see. It’s difficult with the current geopolitical climate, I think, to see cooperation, but things can change. And I think at least on the scientific level, it’s important for the researchers to keep in touch and keep close to each other at least on those kinds of topics. And I personally believe on the education side and immigration side, it would be great if both directions, people from the West immigrated to China and China, back. There is some family human aspect of people just intermixing and thereby those ties grow strong. So you can’t divide against each other, this old school way of thinking. And so multicultural, multidisciplinary research teams working on scientific questions, that’s like the hope. Don’t let the leaders that are warmongers divide us. I think science is the ultimately really beautiful connector. Yeah, science has always been, I think, quite a very collaborative endeavor and scientists know that it’s a collective endeavor as well, and we can all learn from each other. So perhaps it could be a vector to get a bit of cooperation.…

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