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Lisa Randall

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
516 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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

I have to say, I got an award from the Museum of Nuclear History and Technology in the Southwest, and I went to visit the museum, which turned out to be mostly a museum of nuclear weapons. And the scary thing is that they look really cool. It's true that you have that, yes, this is scary, but you also have this, this is cool feeling.

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

I have to say, I got an award from the Museum of Nuclear History and Technology in the Southwest, and I went to visit the museum, which turned out to be mostly a museum of nuclear weapons. And the scary thing is that they look really cool. It's true that you have that, yes, this is scary, but you also have this, this is cool feeling.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#403 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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 โ€“ 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.