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Pieter Levels: belief

20 Aug 2024 Lex Fridman Podcast #440 – Pieter Levels: Programming, Viral AI Startups, and Digital Nomad Life

“I think people… Well, man, that’s another thing, people don’t know how they look.”

— Pieter Levels

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Speaker
Pieter Levels
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
20 Aug 2024
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

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…Well, not the secrets, but the more insights maybe about the human face and the human body. What kind of stuff gets messed up lot? I think people… Well, man, that’s another thing, people don’t know how they look. So, they generate photos of themselves and then they say, “Ah, it doesn’t look like me,” but you can check the training photos, it does look like you, but you don’t know how you look. So, there’s a face dysmorphia of yourself that you have no idea how you look. Yeah, that’s hilarious. I mean, I’ve got… One of the least pleasant activities in my existence is having to listen to my voice and look at my face. So, I get to really have to come into terms with the reality of how I look and how I sound.…

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