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Sarah Walker

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1530 total appearances

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

I'm playing with yellow a lot lately. Like this is not even the most yellow because I have black pants on, but I have worn outfits that have probably five shades of yellow in them.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

Yeah, it's interesting. It's not โ€“ I mean, I am attracted to style and aesthetics because I think they're beautiful, but it's much more because I think it's fun to play with. And so I will get to the beauty thing, but I guess I want to just explain a little bit about my motivation in this space because it's really an intellectual thing for me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

Yeah, it's interesting. It's not โ€“ I mean, I am attracted to style and aesthetics because I think they're beautiful, but it's much more because I think it's fun to play with. And so I will get to the beauty thing, but I guess I want to just explain a little bit about my motivation in this space because it's really an intellectual thing for me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

Yeah, it's interesting. It's not โ€“ I mean, I am attracted to style and aesthetics because I think they're beautiful, but it's much more because I think it's fun to play with. And so I will get to the beauty thing, but I guess I want to just explain a little bit about my motivation in this space because it's really an intellectual thing for me.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

And, you know, Stuart Brand has this great infographic about the layers of like human society. And I think it starts with like the natural sciences and like physics at the bottom and it goes through all these layers and it's like economics and then like fashion is at the top is like the fastest moving thing. part of human culture.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

And, you know, Stuart Brand has this great infographic about the layers of like human society. And I think it starts with like the natural sciences and like physics at the bottom and it goes through all these layers and it's like economics and then like fashion is at the top is like the fastest moving thing. part of human culture.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

And, you know, Stuart Brand has this great infographic about the layers of like human society. And I think it starts with like the natural sciences and like physics at the bottom and it goes through all these layers and it's like economics and then like fashion is at the top is like the fastest moving thing. part of human culture.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

And I think I really like that because it's so dynamic and so short and it's temporal longevity, uh, contrasted with like studying the laws of physics, which are like, you know, like the deep structure reality that I feel like I like bridging those scales tells me much more about the structure of the world that I live in.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

And I think I really like that because it's so dynamic and so short and it's temporal longevity, uh, contrasted with like studying the laws of physics, which are like, you know, like the deep structure reality that I feel like I like bridging those scales tells me much more about the structure of the world that I live in.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

And I think I really like that because it's so dynamic and so short and it's temporal longevity, uh, contrasted with like studying the laws of physics, which are like, you know, like the deep structure reality that I feel like I like bridging those scales tells me much more about the structure of the world that I live in.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

Are you embodying this?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

Are you embodying this?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

Are you embodying this?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

You wouldn't know how to be you. I know this is amazing though, isn't it? Amazing. You have the choice to do it. But one of my favorite, just on the question of beauty, one of my favorite fashion designers of all time is Alexander McQueen. And he was really phenomenal.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

You wouldn't know how to be you. I know this is amazing though, isn't it? Amazing. You have the choice to do it. But one of my favorite, just on the question of beauty, one of my favorite fashion designers of all time is Alexander McQueen. And he was really phenomenal.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

You wouldn't know how to be you. I know this is amazing though, isn't it? Amazing. You have the choice to do it. But one of my favorite, just on the question of beauty, one of my favorite fashion designers of all time is Alexander McQueen. And he was really phenomenal.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

But like his early โ€“ and actually, I kind of used like what happened to him in the fashion industry as a coping mechanism with our paper when โ€“ like the Nature paper in the fall when everyone was saying it was controversial and how terrible that like โ€“ But controversial is good, right? But when Alexander McQueen first came out with his fashion lines, he was mixing horror and beauty.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

But like his early โ€“ and actually, I kind of used like what happened to him in the fashion industry as a coping mechanism with our paper when โ€“ like the Nature paper in the fall when everyone was saying it was controversial and how terrible that like โ€“ But controversial is good, right? But when Alexander McQueen first came out with his fashion lines, he was mixing horror and beauty.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

But like his early โ€“ and actually, I kind of used like what happened to him in the fashion industry as a coping mechanism with our paper when โ€“ like the Nature paper in the fall when everyone was saying it was controversial and how terrible that like โ€“ But controversial is good, right? But when Alexander McQueen first came out with his fashion lines, he was mixing horror and beauty.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#433 โ€“ Sara Walker: Physics of Life, Time, Complexity, and Aliens

And people were horrified. It was so controversial. It was macabre. It looked like there were blood on the models. That's beautiful.