Lex Fridman
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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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And by the way, we should mention that this field in the twenty first century is like a mine field.
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And now we should say you wrote a book
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On hysteria.
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I mean hysteria, every classification we're talking about has been used and abused by every layer of society, including institutions, including uh just culturally, the word hysteria applied to different races disproportionately, to different genders disproportionately.
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So we're in this crisis of trying to figure out
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out what to do with this super complicated human mind.
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Yeah.
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And everybody is dogmatically creating narratives that hold take hold and in so doing can lead to some abuses.
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Some abuses.
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And then it led to the justification of sterilization.
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Exactly.
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This is the beginning of the darkness.
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It
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By the nineteen sixties, over sixty thousand sterilizations have been performed in the US, with California performing a disproportionately high number.
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That's correct.
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Were they influenced by the narratives that were born in the United States?
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Yes, absolutely about this kind of
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Yes, absolutely.
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About this kind of
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I wonder how many people throughout that whole journey
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