Lex Fridman
speaker
80,333 appearances
194 recordings
8 series
first heard Aug 2018
last heard 17 Sep
Lex Fridman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Well Can you just give some intuition, put ourselves in that mind space?
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I mean, presumably these are smart human beings.
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Why were they fraudulent in the reporting of how effective it is?
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Why are all the people that are participating, both the doctors and the general culture?
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It's
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Powerful by the way, by the amount of impact they have on the human body, not powerful in terms of how effective they are.
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But by the way, on that small tangent, let's return to that perhaps often.
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Yes.
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I for one can tell you that for me, for my mind
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The placebo effect, even when you tell me it's placebo will work.
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But now if you have combined an actual gigantic operation that is physically, mentally, in every way life changing, everybody around you in lab coats, all of society is telling you this is going to be life changing.
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I get it.
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That's like the most pure kind of placebo effect.
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We should say that this treatment, patients with thrash, moan, and convulse before falling into a coma.
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The treatment required a course of up to sixty comas.
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It uh turned out to have a mortality rate of one to five percent and caused significant brain damage and obesity.
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yet was hailed as a miracle cure for schizophrenia.
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And it was performed on John Nash, one of the great minds of the twentieth century.
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You can fracture spines and hips and bones.
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