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Lisa Randall: belief

3 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

“Sometimes I do think… You’re not asking this question, but sometimes I do think when I think about some of these conflicts, sometimes it’s just good to have a project that people work on together.”

— Lisa Randall

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Speaker
Lisa Randall
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
3 Dec 2023
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…You need broccoli. Sometimes I do think… You’re not asking this question, but sometimes I do think when I think about some of these conflicts, sometimes it’s just good to have a project that people work on together. There were some efforts to do that in science too, to have Palestinians and Israelis work together, a project called Sesame. I think it’s not a bad idea when you can do that, when you can get… Forget the politics and just focus on some particular project. Sometimes that can work. Some kind of forcing function, some kind of deadline that gets people to sit in a room together and you’re working on a thing. As part of that, you realize the common humanity, that you all have the same concerns, the same hopes, the same fears, that you are all human. That’s an accidental side effect of working together on a thing.…

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