Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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01 / recommendation
“I love Beff Jezos and he’s amazing. And if EAC is very needed to similarly create a more positive outlook on the future, because people have been very pessimistic about society, about the future of society, climate change, all this stuff.”
02 / recommendation
“Now, I use Replicate, back then I used different platforms, which was funny because that platform, when this thing took off, I would tweet… Because I tweet always like how much money these websites make, and then… So, you call it vendor, right?”
03 / recommendation
“Yeah, I don’t know if it’s peer pressure, but I used Emacs for many, many years and I love Lisp, so a lot of the customization is done in Lisp.”
04 / recommendation
“I like Twitter for that most, building stuff, seeing other, because it inspires you to build and it’s just fun to see other people share what they’re discovering and then you’re like, “Okay, I’m going to make something too.”
05 / recommendation
“And the shortcuts, for example, IDE. I love Sublime text because I could use multi-cursor.”
06 / uncertainty
“Like React now apparently has become backend or something that used to be only frontend and you’re forced to do now backend also. I don’t know.”
07 / belief
“I think techno, like YouTube techno. There’s a channel called HOR with a umlaut, like H-O like double dot.”
08 / belief
“I want to go straight from my heart to my mouth to saying the real thing. And the more I think, the more I start filtering myself and I want to just throw it out there immediately.”
09 / belief
“Everything I learned about life, I learned in Minecraft, bro. Yeah, yeah. It’s nice to create those constraints for yourself, to understand what matters to you, and also, how to be in this world.”
10 / belief
“People around you, people you love, nice food, nice experiences, meaningful work, exercise, those things make you happy, I think.”
11 / evaluation
“Oftentimes, they themselves are used to that thing and they have not themselves explored in other options. So, they have this dogmatic talking down to you, “This is the right way to do it.”
12 / belief
“I would just start it, and then I would copy your methods. I would say, “Ah, this guy has a black background.”
13 / belief
“I think there’s an intimacy in being silent together that maybe I’m uncomfortable with, but you need to make yourself vulnerable and actually do it with close friends to just sit there in silence for long periods of time and doing a thing.”
14 / uncertainty
“All I know is right now, I would send it to GitHub and it sends it to my server. I don’t know how to get JavaScript running.”
15 / belief
“I don’t think that makes you happy. I think constraints probably make you happy.”
16 / belief
“I think still Bangkok is the best place. Bangkok and Chiang Mai. I think Thailand is very special.”
17 / belief
“I have a mute board list as well, so I mute politics stuff because I don’t really want it on my feed, and I think I’ve muted so much that now my feed is good.”
18 / belief
“Man, I think the opposite, right? Because the people I follow are interesting, because they say whatever they think and they shape or whatever.”
19 / belief
“Can you speak to that feeling, to that place of just feeling like a loser? Because I think a lot of people in this world are laying in a room right now listening to this and feeling like a loser.”
20 / uncertainty
“Yeah. And this is stuff I couldn’t come up with because I don’t know Austin. I don’t know the memes here and the subcultures.”
21 / belief
“With X sometimes for me too, I think I’m probably naturally gravitating towards the drama.”
22 / belief
“You kind of just need to get the place booked and you need to get the flight and you’ll go through the pain of this process. And that’s why this process always sucks so much with hotels and airline websites and stuff because they don’t have an incentive to improve it because generally only for a super upper segment of the market I think like super high luxury, it affects the actual booking.”
23 / evaluation
“Just click a button, one scene, you bought the thing, as opposed to most of the web was a lot of clicking and it often doesn’t work like with the airlines.”
24 / belief
“I have a weird amount of friends addicted to YouTube and I’m not addicted. I think because my attention span is too short for YouTube.”
25 / belief
“I don’t do naps in a day. I think power naps are good, but I’m never tired anymore in the day.”
26 / belief
“I think that’s actually not a trivial thing to do, to realize that some aspects of your life could be done way, way better, because we kind of very quickly get accustomed to discomforts.”
27 / belief
“I think map apps are very hard to monetize. Google Maps also doesn’t really make money.”
28 / belief
“I would make a selfie how I think I look that’s nice, other people think that’s not nice, but then they make a photo of me.”
29 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if that’s true. I know it gets attacked a lot, because it’s so popular.”
30 / belief
“When you realize this, people are very average at the job, especially with dev and with coding, I think.”
31 / belief
“I think that the thing is more about you can’t make money with this project. I try to do many things to make money with it and it hasn’t worked.”
32 / belief
“I think, because I was getting bored of it, too, just continuous house porn, everything starts looking the same, but then I saw it was really good at interior, so I pivoted to interiorai.”
33 / evaluation
“Yeah, but that’s very risky, because that’s the famous solution trying to find a problem, and usually it doesn’t work, and that’s very common with startup funnels, I think.”
34 / belief
“I think I’m not so good working with other people. Not like I’m crazy, but I don’t trust other people.”
35 / belief
“Do it yourself, I think. And I trust some people, like with my best friend Andre, I’m making a new AI startup, but it’s because we know each other very long and he’s one of the few people I would build something with, but almost never.”
36 / uncertainty
“Man, it’s Bali, I don’t know if they were powerful lattes, but they were lattes.”
37 / belief
“Like I said, this should be better, this should be better. But I think you need to have one person coding it.”
38 / belief
“I think people… Well, man, that’s another thing, people don’t know how they look.”
39 / belief
“I think that’s an interesting theory. I think that must be a different theory. My theory would be that great software engineers are not allowed to make changes.”
40 / belief
“The word roll I think comes from Forchand, not the word roll, but in this case, in the meme use, you would get roll doubles because every… It was post IDs on Forchand.”
41 / uncertainty
“You can open them in a gallery, and you can use your cursor to… So, some don’t look like you. So, the hit-and-miss rate is, I don’t know, say like 50/50 or something.”
42 / uncertainty
“Look at Elon, he’s doing things million times bigger than me, and would I want to do that? I don’t know, you cannot really choose these things, but I really respect that.”
43 / belief
“I think 10 years ago, I would’ve time to sit, go do all-nighters to figure this stuff out with Python.”
44 / belief
“Look, I don’t have the time. And I think saying you don’t have the time is always a lie because you just don’t prioritize it enough.”
45 / evaluation
“You imagine all the thousands, maybe millions of people that go to that website and have to click a million times. It often doesn’t work.”
46 / belief
“I think that was where the merchant accounts … people would use for. People would make money a lot.”
47 / belief
“I think for code, industrial, techno, this kind of stuff, fast, it works well because you really get locked in and combined with caffeine, you go deep. And I think you balance on this edge of anxiety, because this caffeine is also hitting your anxiety and you want to be on the edge of anxiety with this techno running.”
48 / belief
“There was a journalist, I think ,that got angry that used this and it was like, “Oh, it showed a nipple,” because Google Vision didn’t detect it.”
49 / uncertainty
“You can ask in the prompt, I don’t know, for example, do you think… Create a ranking score of X Twitter replies where should this post be if we rank on, I don’t know, integrity, reality, fundamental deepness or something, interestness, and it would give you that a pretty good score probably.”
50 / belief
“TikTok is a very big platform for user acquisition and organic. The best user acquisition I think is organic.”
51 / belief
“You want hold your girl and you want her to become wife and all this stuff. But I think you should stay open to where, for example, where you want to live.”
52 / belief
“I think here the problem was that you have this data but it’s not locked to one location.”
53 / belief
“I think I put it on Hacker News and people would check, “Oh, did you actually …” I felt accountability because I put it public, that I actually had to do it.”
54 / recommendation
“Man, I recommend if you’re 18, you get out of high school, do this, go travel and build some internet stuff, whatever.”
55 / preference
“I think the hard part is figuring out what you shouldn’t add, what you shouldn’t build, because you don’t have time.”
56 / prediction
“I installed I think Unity and Blender and stuff, and I started learning all this stuff because I thought this was a new nascent technology that was going to be big.”
57 / preference
“I think my philosophy is very different than most people in startups, because most people in startups, they build a company and they raise money and they hire people and then they build a product and they find something that makes money.”
58 / evaluation
“I’m not sure what to say about that, because definitely you shouldn’t build everything from just vanilla JavaScript or vanilla C for example, C++ when you’re building systems engineering is like… There’s a lot of benefits for a pointer safety, and all that kind of stuff.”
59 / observation
“They pay this influencer to promote this stuff, use it, make stuff with it, make demo products with it, and then a lot of people are like, “Wow, use this.” And I started noticing this, because when I would ship my stuff, people would ask me, “What are you using?”
60 / recommendation
“I used to have the Logitech MX mouse, the perfect ergonomic mouse-”
61 / recommendation
“For example, TikTok is a good example of that for me. I sometimes just feel dumber after I use TikTok.”
62 / recommendation
“But now I use Telegram. I rather than saved messages. I have an idea, I write it down.”
63 / recommendation
“Now, I use Replicate, back then I used different platforms, which was funny because that platform, when this thing took off, I would tweet…”