Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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44 published records
01 / belief
“Now, if I had to guess, I would say killing Navalny during the Munich Security Conference in the middle of a debate over $60 billion in Ukraine funding, maybe the Russians are dumb.”
02 / belief
“I don’t think most Americans are aware of that at all. And so that’s my view, and I’ve stated it many times because it’s sincere.”
03 / uncertainty
“I mean, I’m glad I’m not Netanyahu, and I’m not sure he’s capable of making wise long-term decisions anyway. But if I was just an Israeli, I’d be like, “I don’t know if I want all this help and guidance.”
04 / belief
“I agree. Well, it’s a failure of the system. Clearly it’s not working. If you’ve got one guy over 80, the other guy almost at 80… People that age he should not be running anything.”
05 / uncertainty
“I’m a little less judgy than most. So I didn’t discount the possibility that he had… I don’t know.”
06 / observation
“Most people I meet, and I’ve had the great privilege of meeting a lot of people over all this time, they’re way better than you think, or they’re more complicated or whatever. But the point is, a direct experience unmediated by liars, there’s no substitute for that.”
07 / uncertainty
“I just tried to a second ago, I don’t know the extent that he is in Kiev. He seems to be in the United States an awful lot, way too much.”
08 / belief
“If I had a wife who was interested at all in any way in what I did, I think I would’ve gone crazy by now.”
09 / belief
“I think after you did the interview with Putin, you put a clip, I think on TCN, your analysis afterwards.”
10 / commitment
“I will say this, and he shares this quality with a lot of comedians, I know a lot of comedians, I know a cross section of people just having done this job for a long time, and a lot of them are very serious about their views, and they have a lot of emotional intensity.”
11 / commitment
“I think we will forever fight against the dying of the light as the entirety of the civilization.”
12 / belief
“All I do that I’m proud of and that I think works is I just listen super carefully.”
13 / belief
“Good. But if you grew up in the internet age, I think your eyes would be more open to beauty that’s digital.”
14 / belief
“I think if I had been 34 instead of 54, I definitely would’ve done that because I would’ve thought, “This is really about me and I need to prove myself and all that stuff.”
15 / belief
“In your case, I think the very fact of the interview was the most important thing.”
16 / belief
“I think cleanliness and architectural design is not the entirety of the metrics that matter when you measure a city.”
17 / belief
“I think Zelensky’s been completely misused by the State Department, by Toria Nuland, by our Secretary of State, by the policymakers in the U.”
18 / belief
“I really haven’t been since I got back from Baghdad at the beginning of the Iraq War, and I realized that the Republican party, which I’d voted for my whole life to that point, and had supported in general, was pushing this really horrible thing that was going to hurt the United States, which in time it really did.”
19 / belief
“The use of them is evil, and the technology itself is evil. And in my opinion, I mean, it’s like if you can’t, that’s just so obvious.”
20 / belief
“What is going on? And until we can answer that question, I think we have to assume the question of whether technology is a net good or a net bad is unresolved at best.”
21 / belief
“I’d love to take a picture together and put it on the internet because I just want to show support because I think he’s been railroaded.”
22 / uncertainty
“I mean, I don’t know, but my strong sense is that Navalny’s death, whoever did it, probably didn’t have a lot to do with the coming election in Russia.”
23 / belief
“I mean, I think Boris Johnson is a husk of a man. But imagine if you were Boris Johnson and you spend your whole life with Ukraine flag, “I’m for Ukraine,” and then all those kids died because of what you did, and the lines haven’t really moved.”
24 / belief
“I agree with that. Because I was listening to this because in the United States, everyone’s always calling everyone else a Nazi, “You’re a Nazi.”
25 / belief
“I think when I’ve started seeing you do that, it made me realize how much that’s lacking.”
26 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if you’ve seen it, but he kind of grilled your supermarket and subway videos.”
27 / belief
“Physical humbling is unlike anything else, I think, because we’re kind of monkeys at heart and just getting your ass kicked just really helpful.”
28 / belief
“Of course. Trees are prettier than any building in my opinion. So I agree with you there.”
29 / belief
“Obviously being thrown into prison is much worse than losing your job. I’ve been fired a number of times for saying what I think, by the way.”
30 / belief
“Have you ever met a leader? First of all, anyone who seeks power is damaged morally, in my opinion.”
31 / belief
“Everything to them, the most vulnerable, I would say, among them, emotionally, psychologically vulnerable, the dumbest, they will always say the same thing.”
32 / belief
“The fact that we’ve a carried interest loophole in the tax code and people are claiming that their income is investment, income and they’re paying half the tax rate as someone who just goes to work every day, it discourages work. It encourages lending at interest, which I think is gross, personally.”
33 / belief
“Of course, of course, I agree with that vehemently. This is not a defense of the Russian system at all.”
34 / disagreement
“Not for its own sake, but do you feel free enough to say to the consensus, “I disagree.”
35 / evaluation
“I will just be honest, as an American, it would be a little weird to be pissing on Joe Biden with a foreign leader, any foreign leader, even though I don’t think Joe Biden is a real person or really a president.”
36 / commitment
“For people who think I shouldn’t do the conversation with Tucker or generally think that there are certain people I should never talk to, I’m sorry, but I disagree.”
37 / prediction
“If we think that there is a reasonable or even a potential chance it could happen, maybe on the margins, let’s assign it a 15% chance, that AI, for example, gets away from us, and we are now ruled by machines that may actually hate us.”
38 / evaluation
“I found that totally contemptible and I said so, and man, did I get a lecture, not just from Republicans, but from Democrats.”
39 / evaluation
“Like every other country, it’s probably best if it makes its decisions based on what it can do by itself. So I would definitely be concerned if I lived in Israel because I think fair or unfair- Concerned if I lived in Israel because I think, fair or unfair, and really this is another product of technology, social media, public sentiment in that area is boiling over.”
40 / commitment
“I should be able to talk to anyone I want to, and I plan to exercise that freedom, which I think I was born with.”
41 / evaluation
“We got our own translator, because I don’t trust anyone. So I think we had a good translator, we had two of them actually, because they get exhausted.”
42 / evaluation
“It’s not a free country. It’s not a democracy in the way that we would understand it or I don’t want to live there because I like to say what I think.”
43 / commitment
“Just to be clear, I have no plans to move to Russia. I think I would probably be arrested if I moved to Russia.”
44 / evaluation
“We are superior to them in that way. But you can’t tell me that living in a city where your 6-year-old daughter can walk to the bus stop and ride on a clean bus or ride in a beautiful subway car that’s on time and not get assaulted, that doesn’t matter.”