Lex Fridman

Well, if we could just focus in on one component, it seems to me one of the problems is honesty as a hard requirement and good communication as another hard requirement.

Because that feels like the prerequisites for avoiding all these problems.

I guess if you can just analyze all of human civilization as it stands and give advice that's definitively true for everyone.

We make sweeping statements.

This is great.

No, I think it's really interesting.

Because I see all those things as romantic, choosing not to cheat, you choosing to dedicate yourself fully to another person.

It's all this romantic and then some people do cheat and your heart is broken and you write a song about it and then you move on and you try to repair yourself and be vulnerable to another human being and all that.

For me, actually focusing on a single thing, you get to explore, you mentioned puzzle.

over time you get to see the nuance, like the beauty of the puzzle.

You realize it's an infinitely long project to really understand another human being.

And so if you focus, you don't get distracted.

So that applies.

I'm a person, when I find a meal I really like, I'll stick to it for a long time.

I'm definitely a monogamy person, I think.

But that also could be a component of where I grew up.

There's a certain cultural upbringing, and maybe my brain is not allowing

So how difficult is polyamory?

I think a lot of people would be curious about that kind of stuff.

Does jealousy come up?