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Paul Rosolie

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And I could see the snake head and then all in the spikes are coming completely perpendicular out from its body.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And for a second, I really was having this out of body experience.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And then the snake saw us, got scared and swam and all of the spikes collapsed onto its body and became smooth.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And then I realized snake had been living in the stagnant water for a while and developed algae that was growing off of it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

So when it was sitting still, all the algae would settle

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

out.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And so if you look straight down on it, it's a water snake that has algae growing on it.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

And so it does look like a snake with spikes.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

He's not wrong.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

It was.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

It was a water snake.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

It was some sort of helicopter.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

But there's always an answer like that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

They're not wrong.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

So when they tell you something like there's an anaconda with horns and multiple people have seen it,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

You make an expedition there.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

If somebody said there's giant ground sloths in this one valley, I wouldn't be like, they're extinct.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

I'd be like, where?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

You start to listen.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#489 โ€“ Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle

I mean, after the tribe walked out of the forest, you could tell me.