Max Tegmark

They never complained about things.

When you're old and your body starts falling apart, it's more and more to complain about.

They looked at what could they still do that was meaningful, and they focused on that rather than wasting time

talking about or even thinking much about things they were disappointed in I think anyone can make themselves depressed if they start their morning by making a list of grievances whereas if you start your day with a little meditation and just things you're grateful for you basically choose to be a happy person because you only have a finite number of days you should spend them make it count being grateful yeah

It's actually going live in a few hours.

I've been having late nights and early mornings.

It's been very exciting, actually.

In short, have you seen Don't Look Up, the film?

yes yes i don't want to be the movie spoiler for anyone watching this who hasn't seen it but if you're watching this you haven't seen it watch it because we are actually acting out it's it's life imitating art humanity is doing exactly that right now except it's an asteroid that we are building ourselves

Almost nobody is talking about it.

People are squabbling across the planet about all sorts of things, which seem very minor compared to the asteroid that's about to hit us, right?

Most politicians don't even have this on their radar.

They think maybe in 100 years or whatever.

Right now, we're at a fork in the road.

This is the most important fork humanity has reached in its over 100,000 years on this planet.

We're building...

effectively a new species that's smarter than us.

It doesn't look so much like a species yet because it's mostly not embodied in robots, but that's a technicality which will soon be changed.

And this arrival of artificial general intelligence that can do all our jobs as well as us and

probably shortly thereafter, superintelligence, which greatly exceeds our cognitive abilities.