Nolan Arbaugh
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first heard Aug 2024
last heard Aug 2024
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Yeah. I saw an episode of Black Mirror about that once. I don't think I want it.
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Oh yeah, for sure. For sure, absolutely.
Yeah, oh, 100%. This... I know another thing with being able to give people the ability to feel sensation and stuff too by going in with the brain and having the neural link maybe do that, that could be something that could be transferred through the optimus as well. There's all sorts of really cool interplay between that. And then also, like you said, just physically interacting. I mean,
99% of the things that I can't do myself, obviously I need a caretaker for, someone to physically do things for me. If an optimist robot could do that, I could live an incredibly independent life and not be such a burden on those around me. And it would change the way people like me live, at least until whatever this is gets cured.
But being able to interact with the world physically like that would just be amazing. And not just for having to be a caretaker or something, but something like I talked about, just being able to read a book. I imagine an optimist robot just being able to hold a book open in front of me, get that smell again.
I might not be able to feel it at that point, or maybe I could, again, with the sensation and stuff. But there's something different about reading a physical book than staring at a screen or listening to an audiobook. I actually don't like audiobooks. I've listened to a ton of them at this point, but I don't really like them. I would much rather read a physical copy.
Yeah. Oh, man. The touch, the smell. I mean, it's just something about the words on the page. They've replicated that page color on the Kindle and stuff. Yeah, it's just not the same. Yeah. So just something as simple as that.
Yeah. A lot of things that I interact with in the world, like clothes or literally any physical thing that I interact with in the world, a lot of times what people around me will do is they'll just come like rub it on my face. They'll like lay something on me so I can feel the weight. They will rub a shirt on me so I can feel fabric.
There's something very profound about touch, and it's something that I miss a lot and something I would love to do again. We'll see.
Yeah, I know. It's one thing that I've asked God for basically every day since my accident was just being able to one day move, even if it was only my hand, so that way I could squeeze my mom's hand or something just to show her how much I care and how much I love her and everything.
um something along those lines um being able to just interact with the people around me handshake give someone a hug um i don't know anything like that being able to help me eat like i'd probably get really fat um which would be a terrible terrible thing also beat bliss and chess on a physical chessboard yeah yeah i mean there are just so many upsides you know
any way to find some way to feel like I'm bringing bliss down to my level because he's just such an amazing guy and everything about him is just so above and beyond that anything I can do to take him down a notch I'm really happy yeah humble him a bit he needs it yeah okay as he's sitting next to me did you ever make sense of why God puts good people through such hardship Oh, man.
I think it's all about... understanding how much we need God. And I don't think that there's any light without the dark. I think that if all of us were happy all the time, there would be no reason to turn to God ever. I feel like there would be no concept of good or bad. And I think that as much of
like the darkness and the evil that's in the world it makes us all appreciate the good and the things we have so much more and i think you know like when i had my accident the first one of the first things i said to one of my best friends was and this was within like the first month or two after my accident i said you know everything about this accident has just made me
understand and believe that like god is real and that there really is a god basically in that um like my interactions with him have all been you know real and worthwhile and he said if anything seeing me go through this accident he believes that there isn't a God.
And it's a very different reaction, but I believe that it is a way for God to test us, to build our character, to send us through trials and tribulations, to make sure that we understand how precious you know, he is and the things that he's given us and the time that he's given us and then hopefully grow from all of that.
I think that's a huge part of being here is to not just, you know, have an easy life and do everything that's easy, but to step out of our comfort zones and really challenge ourselves because I think that's how we grow.
Oh man. I think people are my biggest inspiration. Even just being at Neuralink for a few months, looking people in the eyes and hearing their motivations for why they're doing this. It's so inspiring, and I know that they could be other places, at cushier jobs, working somewhere else, doing X, Y, or Z that doesn't really mean that much. But instead, they're here, and they want to be.
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