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Lisa Randall

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

And I think we have to get around that because I kind of think that, yes, you can be in that, but I'm not sure that's going to make people scared. Have they actually asked afterwards, are you more or less scared?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

And actually, that was the really interesting thing about visiting that museum, actually. It was very nice because I had a tour from people who had been working there in the Cold War, and actually one or two people from the Manhattan Project. It was a very cool tour. And you just realize just how just the thing itself gets you so excited. I think that's something that sometimes these movies miss.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

And actually, that was the really interesting thing about visiting that museum, actually. It was very nice because I had a tour from people who had been working there in the Cold War, and actually one or two people from the Manhattan Project. It was a very cool tour. And you just realize just how just the thing itself gets you so excited. I think that's something that sometimes these movies miss.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

And actually, that was the really interesting thing about visiting that museum, actually. It was very nice because I had a tour from people who had been working there in the Cold War, and actually one or two people from the Manhattan Project. It was a very cool tour. And you just realize just how just the thing itself gets you so excited. I think that's something that sometimes these movies miss.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

Just the thing itself. You're not thinking about the overall consequences. And it was kind of like, in some ways, it was like the early Silicon Valley. People were just thinking like, what if we did this? What if we did that? and not keeping track of what the peripheral consequences are. And you definitely see that happening with AI now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

Just the thing itself. You're not thinking about the overall consequences. And it was kind of like, in some ways, it was like the early Silicon Valley. People were just thinking like, what if we did this? What if we did that? and not keeping track of what the peripheral consequences are. And you definitely see that happening with AI now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

Just the thing itself. You're not thinking about the overall consequences. And it was kind of like, in some ways, it was like the early Silicon Valley. People were just thinking like, what if we did this? What if we did that? and not keeping track of what the peripheral consequences are. And you definitely see that happening with AI now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

I mean, I think that was the moral of the battle that just happened, that it's just full speed ahead.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

I mean, I think that was the moral of the battle that just happened, that it's just full speed ahead.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

I mean, I think that was the moral of the battle that just happened, that it's just full speed ahead.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

But it also, I mean, at a more mundane perhaps level, I think it applies, you know, it's really interesting. One of the things that I found when I wrote these books is, you know, some people love certainty. You know, scientists kind of, many revel in uncertainty. It's not that you want to be uncertain, you want to solve it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

But it also, I mean, at a more mundane perhaps level, I think it applies, you know, it's really interesting. One of the things that I found when I wrote these books is, you know, some people love certainty. You know, scientists kind of, many revel in uncertainty. It's not that you want to be uncertain, you want to solve it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

But it also, I mean, at a more mundane perhaps level, I think it applies, you know, it's really interesting. One of the things that I found when I wrote these books is, you know, some people love certainty. You know, scientists kind of, many revel in uncertainty. It's not that you want to be uncertain, you want to solve it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

But you're at this edge where it's really frustrating because you don't really want to not know the answer. But of course, if you knew the answer, that would be done. So you're always at this edge where you're trying to sort things out. And there is something scary. You don't know if there's going to be a solution. You don't know if you're going to find it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

But you're at this edge where it's really frustrating because you don't really want to not know the answer. But of course, if you knew the answer, that would be done. So you're always at this edge where you're trying to sort things out. And there is something scary. You don't know if there's going to be a solution. You don't know if you're going to find it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

But you're at this edge where it's really frustrating because you don't really want to not know the answer. But of course, if you knew the answer, that would be done. So you're always at this edge where you're trying to sort things out. And there is something scary. You don't know if there's going to be a solution. You don't know if you're going to find it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

So it's not something that can destroy the Earth. It's just something that you do on your individual level. But then, of course, there are much bigger things like the ones you're talking about where they could actually be dangerous. The stuff I do, I just want to be clear, I'm doing theoretical physics, not very dangerous. But sometimes things end up having bigger consequences than you think.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

So it's not something that can destroy the Earth. It's just something that you do on your individual level. But then, of course, there are much bigger things like the ones you're talking about where they could actually be dangerous. The stuff I do, I just want to be clear, I'm doing theoretical physics, not very dangerous. But sometimes things end up having bigger consequences than you think.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

So it's not something that can destroy the Earth. It's just something that you do on your individual level. But then, of course, there are much bigger things like the ones you're talking about where they could actually be dangerous. The stuff I do, I just want to be clear, I'm doing theoretical physics, not very dangerous. But sometimes things end up having bigger consequences than you think.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 – Lisa Randall: Dark Matter, Theoretical Physics, and Extinction Events

So this might be why I'm a physicist or why I differ from other people. Because I'm not such a big fan of humanity in some ways. Some ways I am. But the idea that we were everything would be really boring to me. I love the idea that there's so much more out there, that there's a bigger universe and there's lots to discover and that we're not all there is.