Lex Fridman: uncertainty

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…So you don’t believe that an owner of a lonely heart is much better than an owner of a broken heart? You think an owner of a broken heart is better than the owner of a lonely heart? Yes, for sure. I think so. I think so. I’m going to have to day by day. I don’t know. I’m going to have to listen to some more Bruce Springsteen to figure that one out. Well, it’s funny because it’s like after I turned 50, I think of death all the time. I just think that I have probably a fewer years ahead of me than I’m behind me. I think about one thing, which is what are the memories that I want to carry with me for the next period of time? And also, about just the fact that everything around me could be… I know more people who are dying for various reasons. I’m not Lot. I’m not that old, but it’s something I think about a lot. I’m reminded of how I talked to somebody who’s a Buddhist and I was like, “The whole of Buddhism is renouncing attachment.” In some way, the idea of Buddhism is like staying out of the world of memory and staying in the moment. They talked about how do you renounce attachments to the people that you love? They’re just saying, “Well, I appreciate that I have this moment with them and knowing that they will die makes me appreciate this moment that much more.” You said something similar in your daily routine that you think about things this way, right?…

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