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Charan Ranganath

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They’re part of my tribe, if I remember the same things in the same way. And you brought up this weaponization of history, and it really speaks to, I think, one of the parts of memory, which is that if you have a belief, you will find, and you have a goal in mind, you’ll find stuff in memory that aligns with it, and you won’t see the parts in memory that don’t.

“They’re part of my tribe, if I remember the same things in the same way. And you brought up this weaponization of history, and it really speaks to, I think, one of the parts of memory, which is that if you have a belief, you will find, and you have a goal in mind, you’ll find stuff in memory that aligns with it, and you won’t see the parts in memory that don’t.”
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Lex Fridman Podcast

03 / evaluation

I think even if you think about the big decisions in life. It’s like you and I were talking before we started recording about how I got into memory research and you got into AI and it’s like we all have these personal reasons that guide us in these particular directions.

“I think even if you think about the big decisions in life. It’s like you and I were talking before we started recording about how I got into memory research and you got into AI and it’s like we all have these personal reasons that guide us in these particular directions.”
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Lex Fridman Podcast

04 / evaluation

One of the things I think that people didn’t get was the uncertainty of science and how much we don’t know. And I think every scientist lives in this world of uncertainty, and when I was writing the book, I just became aware of all of these things we don’t know.

“One of the things I think that people didn’t get was the uncertainty of science and how much we don’t know. And I think every scientist lives in this world of uncertainty, and when I was writing the book, I just became aware of all of these things we don’t know.”
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Lex Fridman Podcast

06 / evaluation

” And I like to use that word optimal now because there’s such a culture of optimization right now. And it’s like I realize I have to redefine what optimal is because for most of the human condition, I think we had a series of stages of life where you have basically adults saying, “Okay”, young adults saying, “I’ve got a child and I’m part of this village and I have to hunt and forage and get things done.

“” And I like to use that word optimal now because there’s such a culture of optimization right now. And it’s like I realize I have to redefine what optimal is because for most of the human condition, I think we had a series of stages of life where you have basically adults saying, “Okay”, young adults saying, “I’ve got a child and I’m part of this village and I have to hunt and forage and get things done.”
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast

07 / evaluation

How do we tell, I get some mental experience, where did that mental experience come from? It turns out this is a huge problem because essentially our mental experience of remembering something that happened, our mental experience of thinking about something, how do you tell the difference?

“How do we tell, I get some mental experience, where did that mental experience come from? It turns out this is a huge problem because essentially our mental experience of remembering something that happened, our mental experience of thinking about something, how do you tell the difference?”
Publisher
Lex Fridman Podcast
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