Lex Fridman

Do you write every single day?

Do you take little notes here and there?

Like your notebook, there's a bunch of doodles, a bunch of writing.

Well, how do you go disparate notes to the final thing?

Because you have, I mean, it's difficult to convey through words

the experience and you do that well.

Do you edit a lot?

Yeah, the lesson we learned in the jungle, you know, horned anacondas, believe them.

So stylistically, I mean, that is a bit Gormak McCarthy.

Ooh, he would have loved it.

There are people you draw, like writers you draw inspiration from like that.

I mean, you're very close to him in terms of like, you like plug in every once in a while.

You jump around stylistically, actually.

but also sometimes you go even more than i don't think anthony bourdain did like hemingway like minimal like no like word period word like that that's another way to flex that i really like that you do sometimes it's just like less and just power and the the spacing the silences the unsaid is what does the driving i mean that that's what's so arresting about you read like for whom the bell tolls

Have you interacted with LLMs much?

Doesn't, you know, AI systems, chat GPT.

There's a bit of a scary and a sad aspect to the fact that they can generate language extremely well, but.

Something is missing, and it's very hard to put your finger on it.

As more and more compelling and effective bots appear on the internet, we're going to value that less and less, I think, and we're going to value inhuman interaction more and more.

And so artists showing art at galleries versus on the internet, meeting in person.