Lex Fridman
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Podcast Appearances
If something bad is happening on a public street, most people, it's the bystander effect.
Most people just stand there and watch.
I've seen it once in my life.
Yeah, this is humans.
So it's actually, you want to simulate stepping up.
And again, this idea of heroic imagination, actually simulating, imagining yourself standing up and saving the person when a crowd is watching, they're drowning, to be the one that dives in, tries to help.
You mentioned 70% of men and some large percentage of women fantasize about murder.
And I also read that you wrote that recidivism for homicide is only 1% to 3%.
So that raises the question, why do people commit murder?
Can you just link on that a bit?
So how should we think about everything you've just described for how our criminal justice system forgives?
If they are very unlikely to murder again, how would you reform the criminal justice system?
If I could just stick to the bad people podcast.
There's an episode on incels called Black Pill.
Are incels dangerous?
So are they dangerous?
What's the psychology of incels?
And the internet gives you a mechanism to be your worst self.
Oh, the internet.
So one more episode, you interviewed the lady, Cecilia, who got Tinder swindled.