Lex Fridman

It is a knife's edge.

So you can approach it one of the two ways.

Like, if I die, I die.

probably well well the interesting thing is that they're initiating the contact right there they are the ones coming out of the jungle and confronting us and fundamentally that contact is they're at least giving peace a chance it's just they're trying the peaceful contact first correct or is there a violent element like what did you sense in the caution of them emerging to the beach fear

I mean, you really were surrounded.

We were completely surrounded.

So they could...

Yeah, and it's probably fair to say that part of the reason they did, maybe they wanted peace, but part of the reason is they didn't know how deep this goes.

They didn't know if you have backup.

It seems like that.

And so whoever's cutting them down is a source of destruction on a spiritual, existential level.

In a deep sense, the uncontacted tribes represent the deep jungle.

And so if they're threatened, that means the jungle, the deep jungle is threatened.

So there's a particular clan.

There's a particular clan.

Never contacted.

Is there, just from your memory, interesting aspects about the way they were trying to communicate?

Like you said, clapping.

I think it's, from an anthropology perspective, from a human perspective, fascinating.

How do you talk to people from an uncontacted tribe like this?