Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
And our intentions are good there.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
And I mean, we're on the right side of history there.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Girls should be going to school.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Malala Yousafzai should have the Nobel Prize and she shouldn't have been shot in the face by the Taliban, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
we know what the right answers are there.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
The question is, what do you do when there are enough, in this particular case, religious maniacs who are willing to die and let their children die in defense of crazy ideas and moral norms that belong in the 7th century?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
And it's a problem we couldn't solve, and we couldn't solve it even though we spent trillions of dollars to solve it.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
Well, I think it always will be, or in the absence of perfect AI, it always will be.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
I don't think Twitter is as important as people think it is, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
And I used to think it was more important when I was on it, and now that I'm off of it, I think it's, I mean, first let me say it's just an unambiguously good thing, in my experience, to delete your Twitter account, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
It's like, it is just, even the good parts of Twitter that I miss,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
were bad in the aggregate, the degree to which it was fragmenting my attention, the degree to which my life was getting doled out to me in periods between those moments where I checked Twitter, right, and had my attention diverted.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
And I was, you know,
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
I was not a crazy Twitter addict.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
I mean, I was probably a pretty normal user.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
I mean, I was not someone who was tweeting multiple times a day or even every day, right?
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
I think I probably averaged something like one tweet a day, I think I averaged.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
But in reality, it'd be like four tweets one day and then I wouldn't tweet for the better part of a week.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
But I was looking a lot because it was my newsfeed.
Lex Fridman Podcast
#365 β Sam Harris: Trump, Pandemic, Twitter, Elon, Bret, IDW, Kanye, AI & UFOs
I was just following 200 very smart people and I just wanted to see what they were paying attention to.