Roman Yampolskiy

They might be onto something because they also have very low instances of autism.

But it's also like, have you ever seen Werner Herzog's film, Happy People?

I don't think I have.

It's a film about people in Siberia.

It's Life in the Taiga.

And it's all Happy People, Life in the Taiga is the name of the documentary.

And it's all about these trappers that live this subsistence lifestyle and how happy they are.

They're all just joyful, laughing and singing and drinking vodka and having a good time and hanging out with their dogs and

think i know some people like that this is yeah but like biologically that's compatible with us like that that's like whatever human reward systems have evolved over the past 400 000 plus years or whatever we've been homo sapiens that seems to be like biologically compatible with this sort of harmony harmony with nature harmony with our existence and everything else outside of that when you get into big cities like

The bigger the city, the more depressed people you have and more depressed people by population, which is really weird.

You know, it's really weird that as we progress, we become less happy.

Yes.

They're not valuable.

Not just that.

You don't know your neighbors.

Right.

Like my friend Jim was telling me he doesn't know anybody in his apartment.

He lives in an apartment building.

It's like 50 stories high.

There's all these people living in that apartment building.