Lex Fridman

By the way, I forgot to ask, why was the flood myth focused on noisy people?

You have to tell me about the world of ancient games.

Maybe we can start with the ancient Royal Game of Ur.

What is it and how were you somehow able to crack the rules of it?

It's a mix of probability and strategy.

Beautiful matter.

You think games are... You know, our desire to play games, a mix of chance, a mix of strategy, is a part of human nature?

You think that's always been there?

Of course, we humans also sometimes mix in gambling into the whole thing to add some money on top of it, which I'm sure sometimes was involved here.

As you mentioned, you are...

the curator at possibly the greatest place on Earth, the British Museum?

Can you tell me what are some of the incredible magical aspects of the British Museum?

But that's kind of what the task of the British Museum is to do that, but for the entirety of human history.

It'd be a store of artifacts that are the raindrops from which you can reconstruct the waterfall.

There's so many questions I want to ask you.

What wisdom do you think

the people from whom these artifacts came had that we may have, the modern day humans may have lost or lost in part or in whole.

So it's often, as you've spoken about, we see the ancient peoples as lesser, dumber, more primitive.

And you've spoken about how they are basically the same.

But there is some, I'm sure there's some greater wisdom they had about certain things, as we have greater wisdom about others.