Lex Fridman

So that seems...

like the way to live a healthy life, a happy life is just to focus on the positive, not to sound cliche, but like basically modifying your memories continuously that everything was just great.

Is there something to that?

How much of this Danny Kahneman type of idea that we live a lot of our life in memory is

Like, it's not, you know, there's the direct in the moment experience of a thing, and then there's remembering that thing over and over and over and over.

So there's like, I don't know, getting married or whatever, like some pleasant thing that if you, over a lifetime, the pleasure you derive from that thing is disproportionately, most of it is from remembering the thing versus experiencing it.

Is there something to that?

Yeah, there's a real case to be made.

You know, there's this kind of

how hard is it to modify memories from a neuroscience perspective?

So if you look at brain computer interfaces like Neuralink, for example, do you think there's a future where we're implanting or modifying memories directly?

To speed that up.

So right now we can do that with language, right?

We just talk to each other and modify them and we just speed that up.

So what you're worried about there is that you become untethered from reality, like you fabricate too many details about the memory.

Like if human is interacting with AI and AI is telling the human what they want to hear, are you worried about over time you start to just have a very overly modified version of your past narrative?

So just a practical, is there like a protocol for self-modifying memories so you can live a happier life?

That's really interesting, right?

Like, not just for if you have some kind of issue, but just how to have a life well lived.

Right?