Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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25 published records
01 / recommendation
“I remember when we did the Mandela Pavilion, we read Moby Dick, the whiteness of the whale, the albino, the different the other, and that got us to work on melanin and melanine also is sort of an output from the death mass.”
02 / belief
“To me, maybe it is to you as well, it’s super inspiring because I think he’s wrong, but it’s like you almost want to prove him wrong.”
03 / belief
“Exactly. So I think of it as large molecule models and those large molecule models, of course, large language models are based on Google and search engines and so on and so forth.”
04 / belief
“The yin and yang of togetherness. And they allow you, I think, to reset and to tune in to that ratio we talked about of who you are and who you want to be.”
05 / uncertainty
“What does that look like when you completely switch the timescale and you can afford the time to answer the question? And again, I don’t know, but that world to me is possibly amazing.”
06 / belief
“I think the idea of connecting AGI to nature through your work is really fascinating.”
07 / belief
“I think that the manifestation or part of that manifestation is the pointing to the moon in order to get to the moon.”
08 / uncertainty
“We wouldn’t be here without them. They were here for, I don’t know what it is, like a billion years before anything else showed up.”
09 / belief
“I think gratitude and presence, appreciation are really the most important things in life.”
10 / belief
“I think we all have that loneliness, whether we’re willing to access that loneliness and look at it in the eye or completely, completely avoid it or deny it.”
11 / belief
“Loyalty and the human spirit and how Coppola celebrates the human spirit through the most simple gestures in language and acting. And I think in Kubrick you see this highly curated and controlled and manicured vision of creating a film.”
12 / belief
“In the context of design, specifically, I think of nature as everything that isn’t anthropomass, everything that is not produced by humankind, the birds and the rocks and everything in between, fungi, elephants, whales.”
13 / belief
“Meaning it’s that kind of duality between opportunity like starting like this and going like this, opening and closing. And this really, I think is analogous to human empowerment, given infinite wide array of choices.”
14 / belief
“I see parallels here with another company of Neuralink, which is basically like, I think you mentioned, Neuralink for nature.”
15 / belief
“Exactly. And that sort of ends up defining you and those tools, I think when you let go, you sort of find, you give peace to your will, to a sense of will.”
16 / preference
“I think everything, everything, everything good I’ve found in my life has been found in that way of letting go and suspending my sense of disbelief.”
17 / preference
“The reason I’m bringing this forward is because we don’t view ourselves as designers of consumable products and architectural environments only, but we love that moment where these technologies… And by the way, every one of these projects that we created involve the creation of a new technology, whether it be a glass printer or the spinning robot or the life support system for the bee colony.”
18 / preference
“Because that will get us closer to growing things as opposed to assembly and mechanically putting them together with toxic materials and compounds.”
19 / prediction
“If you think about humans versus nature, at least in the realm, at least in the context of definition of nature, is everything, but anthropomass. And I’m using Ron Milo, who is an incredible professor from the Weizmann Institute who came up with this definition of Anthropo mass in 2020 when he identified that 2020 was the crossover year when anthropomass exceeded biomass on the planet.”
20 / evaluation
“The glasswork was another project like that where we were fascinated by glass because obviously it’s superb material for architecture, but we created this new glass printing technology for the first time that was shedding light on the biomechanics of fluid glass, the math and the physics of which was never done before, which was so exciting to us, but revealing new knowledge about the world through technology.”
21 / prediction
“Wisdom is the ability to have or find insight about the world and from wisdom to spiritual awareness, which sort of transcends wisdom and is able to chart the world into new territory. But I think what is interesting about AGI is that it is sort of almost like a self recursive thing, because it’s like a washing machine of a third derivative Wikipedia.”
22 / preference
“I love that question because to some of us, the loss of control is control. In design, we’re used to extreme levels of control over form and the shape of a thing and how it behaves and how it functions.”
23 / evaluation
“I think that let’s say from the beginning of mankind going back 200,000 years, the products that we have designed have separated us from nature.”
24 / belief
“How we built this tower on the roof of SF MoMa, which by a couple of months ago until it was on the roof, we’ve shown this structure completely biodegrade into the… Well, not completely, but almost completely biodegrade to the soil. And this notion that a product or an organism or part of that organism can reincarnate is very, very moving thought to me, because I want to believe that I believe in reincarnation.”
25 / preference
“It was just unbelievable. But with plants, there potentially is a set of molecules that impacts or inspires, I like that word, the plant to behave or act in a certain way, and allows still the plan the possibility of deciding where it or she or he wants to go.”