Edward Frenkel
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2,304 appearances
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first heard Apr 2023
last heard Apr 2023
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So it was replacing your real emotion that comes from the heart by some kind of a theory which comes from the mind.
And this is where we can go astray, because then we become captives of frameworks and conceptual systems which may not be beneficial to our society.
That's right.
It takes courage, and it takes a certain self-awareness, I would say.
And which brings me to, you know, I think the crucial is that which was inscribed, you know, on the temple of Apollo in Delphi.
There was a statement, know thyself, know yourself, you know, like, who am I?
Ultimately, it boils down to this and all these debates.
And the point is that I used to be, like I said, you know, pessimistic at some point, and I was scared even of where development of AI was going.
This is about 2014, 2015.
And now I'm much more.
So for instance, after I saw Ray Kurzweil as a human being, after I could relate to him and sympathize with him, suddenly I stopped seeing him in the news.
Like before that, I would always see him in the news saying, we're going to put nanobots in your brain by the year 2030, whatever, you know?
And then we upload you to the 21st.
And I would be like, no, you know, that's sort of terrible.
Suddenly I didn't see him anymore.
So now it makes me question, who was creating the trouble?
Was it him who was creating the trouble or was it my mind?
And so as I became self-aware,
suddenly other possibilities opened.
And suddenly that conflict, which by the way, if I kept giving this nasty, you know, talks about him, one day I suppose we'd have a debate.
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