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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

I mean, that day, if a Tyrannosaurus rex walked out behind them, I would have been like, makes sense.

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

Let's go to the floating forest.

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

I mean, along with giant snakes is...

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

animals that are existing in an ecosystem that's isolated right and so the tapuis you know like in the movie up those venezuelan cliff jungles where it's like those straight like like angel falls and up there you have this allopatric speciation occurring where these isolated communities are departing from whatever's down there and so on the floating forest you have this very unique ecosystem where there's animals living on grassy islands there's animals living in the tops of palm trees and so

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

in that nightmare soup that exists beneath the rafts, there's probably insects.

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

And I mean, I've seen lizards there that we have been unable to identify.

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

There's, there's things there in the, I mean, I can't imagine the, the, I don't think the decay is going to happen.

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

It's not probably not a lot of oxygen in that water.

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

And so, I mean, I brought a few scientists there and they've all just been like, this is,

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

this is you know yeah how do you how did this form we brought hydrologists there and they're like how the hell did this thing form and then you know trying to study what what what creatures live under that is is is amazing but the the big anacondas it's interesting because they truly are the apex so they're unbothered they're not really using their power for anything

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

No, and I'm sure if I bit her, she'd turn around, kill me.

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

It would just slowly kill you.

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

But I wonder if once she killed you, though, if she'd be like...

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

You know, just like.

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

Just take a bite?

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

I mean, if she, I mean, bite, they swallow, right?

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

So like once you collapse your, your shoulders, it's like, you know, if you killed a perfectly good hamburger and it was like in your hands dead, you'd be like, you know, maybe I'll, maybe I'll try it.

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

I mean, they need the calories.

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

Yeah.

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

And then take a six month nap.