Lex Fridman: belief

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…Well, that’s true. Unless you and your genius friends can figure out how to give us eternal life or something. I don’t think I want to live forever. I think flirting with that idea too much is dangerous, this kind of transhumanism kind of idea. It’s not a good way of thinking. Of course, I do want to heal diseases and extend human life, especially high quality of human life. But yeah. If we could be in much better shape and much healthier and extend life by a few decades, I think that would be great. But I agree with you. I think there’s supposed to be an expiration date on it, I think we’re supposed to… There’s something about scarcity being a necessary component in a lot of different fields, you know what I mean? Where it’s like life itself having a finite amount of time on it I think makes it more precious.…

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