Lex Fridman Podcast / episode intelligence
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45 published records
01 / recommendation
“All Gas No Brakes was named after a book that I wrote called All Gas No Brakes, a hitchhiker’s diary, which chronicled the 70-day journey that we were just talking about.”
02 / belief
“I think human beings are inherently selfish as well, but I don’t think that selfish is inherently bad.”
03 / belief
“I think he probably saw a similar thing in what was going on with All Gas No Breaks and was like, “Shit, this could be big.”
04 / belief
“I don’t want to hook up with someone who doesn’t want to hook up with me.” And I think that as fame increased during that time, I think I was just oblivious to how people were seeing me, especially those who had a digital relationship with me prior to me knowing them.”
05 / belief
“Not that… Well yeah, that lady, I think she manifests herself in many forms, yeah.”
06 / belief
“One thing I think about with aliens is scale. So we have this idea that an alien would be a gray alien or a almost humanoid lookalike that would visit us in human form, arms, legs, head.”
07 / belief
“I think the first time I really did that was in the San Francisco Streets video because there’s so much content about San Francisco homelessness, tenderloin shoplifting, but there’s not that much context in those videos about the history of San Francisco, the housing crisis, NIMBYism, random zoning stuff that sounds boring, but has a major role in the current situation on the streets there as to why the tenderloin is neglected by police and by the City Council and the other neighborhoods like Knob Hill and North Beach was so nice.”
08 / belief
“There is a degree to which you can be in those positions easily captured by groupthink though, even when you’re not controlled by bosses and money and all that stuff. I think Jon Stewart has been mostly resistant, but it’s hard.”
09 / uncertainty
“When I’ve talked to people who have the condition, it’s really either-or, but more than 70% of people with HPPD fall into either category. They’re both coping mechanisms for the, I don’t know what really happens.”
10 / belief
“You can only enter the US through an official port of entry, which I learned the hard way because I got arrested by border patrol and held as a detainee at a Migrant Center for a few days.”
11 / belief
“The stuff we’re seeing in terms of UFO sightings, I think to the degree it’s real, it’s much more likely government projects.”
12 / belief
“I think there’s something happening on a deeper cosmic spiritual level that lets the mind of rappers know that they have a safe place in front of our camera crew.”
13 / prediction
“If you look at the speech he did on January 5th, he said, “Tomorrow, millions of patriotic Americans will take our country back.”
14 / belief
“I think I’ve seen that and it’s going to be a callback. I think somebody mentioning eating ass there too.”
15 / belief
“I think people like going to Sonic and waiting in their car and getting milkshakes, and people like going to the AMC theaters and they like going ice skating and mini golfing and going to the bar after work.”
16 / uncertainty
“I’ve been through some things that leads me to believe that a lot of people though are primarily motivated by self-interest, and that in a fight or flight situation, most people will choose flight. So I don’t know if people are courageous as a whole, but I think generally good, but the energy to stand up for what’s right, not sure about that.”
17 / belief
“There’s people who truly believe that America is the only hope for their success and to feed their family, and I think a lot of them are getting catfished.”
18 / belief
“I’ll put out something that I care about a lot, but if it doesn’t get as many views, I’m like, “All right, it must have not been as good as my higher review videos or whatever.”
19 / uncertainty
“Everyone’s just vibing out, loosey-goosey, but the grid gets people locked in hateful. I don’t know, man.”
20 / belief
“Then I cut out a lot of that stuff and I’m just as creative. It’s interesting, I think one of the hardest parts about addiction is that if you’re functioning highly creative addict of any kind, your brain and the addictive part of your brain convinces yourself that it’s all part of the cross purpose and that it has this symbiotic inspirational thing going on, but it’s not true.”
21 / belief
“I think so, yeah. I think fame getting to your head. If you spend more than a hundred bucks on sunglasses, you’ve officially gone off the deep end.”
22 / belief
“Since I touched a microphone, rappers have gravitated toward me. I think there’s something happening.”
23 / commitment
“I will say though, as someone now who doesn’t party like I did when I was younger, it’s not as important as I thought it was.”
24 / belief
“I think that he’s built up a following for so long that wants him to do that. So I think he’ll question things that he probably thinks are relatively straightforward because that’s the shtick of the show.”
25 / belief
“I’m good friends with a lot of people that say alcohol is really bad for you, and I believe that too.”
26 / uncertainty
“Fear, maybe. Paranoia, I don’t know. It really divided people. Along the lines, as you mentioned, triple mask yourself or fight for your country.”
27 / belief
“I think he’s done the best job though. If someone in that obviously Democrat-connected corporate media economy, he seems to be the freest talker.”
28 / belief
“I’m saying my life before, I would say 2019, 2018, especially, there was the chaos on camera, but then there was my private life, which was chaotic partying all the time.”
29 / belief
“I think also, there’s something about you that creates the safe space to perform their art.”
30 / belief
“I think after Burning Man, we went to the South. Went to Talladega Race weekend, went to a Donald Trump Jr.”
31 / uncertainty
“I don’t know if you remember, but I was actually scared when the pandemic started.”
32 / belief
“The opening scene of two characters just talking shit and then getting into a fight. And that I think was really brilliant how you presented that as almost like a microcosm of the division between the extremes of the left and the extremes of the right.”
33 / belief
“I believe in a free internet, which I think is more embraced now by conservatives.”
34 / belief
“I do hope more humans rise to the occasion and have courage, courage of their convictions, courage to have integrity. But yeah, I think that most people are good and they want to do good, and they have the capacity to do a lot of good.”
35 / uncertainty
“I was like, “This is a fucking lie calling it $1.” I don’t know why I’m swearing.”
36 / evaluation
“I think all betrayal in anything like that is motivated by self-interest, whether that be economic success, social stability, whatever it is. They figured that because I was being such a burden in asking for the profit that they could just release me and find someone equally talented and not split them in so they can make more money.”
37 / evaluation
“Trump broke the brains of a lot of people I admire to where Trump derangement syndrome became a thing, you can’t see the world quite as clearly because of it.”
38 / evaluation
“Cool thing about Jon Stewart is I generally like to say that anybody who works for corporate media, whether it be Comedy Central or anything owned by Time Warner, Fox, MSNBC, they can’t say what they want because in order to climb up in those organizations, you have to appease the narrative of the company that you’re working for to rise in the ranks.”
39 / evaluation
“Even though, in my opinion, movies like Texas Chainsaw Massacre have ruined hitchhiking culture in America, because now everyone thinks you’re going to decapitate them if they pick you up.”
40 / evaluation
“” The part that makes school difficult, especially in college, is that you have people just going to school just to get the degree who don’t really know exactly what they’re interested in, and they don’t even have time to figure that out because they’re in a business program or a communications program with no specific interest.”
41 / evaluation
“All the late night shows that I was supposed to go on, I was supposed to go on the late night shows, and that was off the table because they were worried that I was a loose cannon, I think.”
42 / evaluation
“If you follow him, I’m going to message you and ask you why?” So this person who I don’t know, I didn’t even know who the accusation was coming from, they emailed every production company that I was working with, DMd hundreds, if not thousands of people, just saying that I was this piece of shit.”
43 / preference
“You’re not going to sell a picture of me interviewing someone at a riot like you would me interviewing a furry or a drunk dude in Alabama, it doesn’t work the same.”
44 / recommendation
“Well, I used the app Couchsurfing to find places to stay.”
45 / recommendation
“He created the documentary that I highly recommend called This Place Rules, on the undercurrents that led to the January 6th Capitol riots.”