Shekhar Natarajan

And then someone else can just be like, wow, we haven't evolved at all.

What a brute this person is.

And the fact that

our species produces individuals that can be both of those things continues to be the thing that haunts me the most.

ecological nooks, if you like, for certain people with certain character traits to thrive.

So the masks and the kind of the Caligula's of this world, let's say.

And I think a lot of the leaders that we see who are in it to acquire power and to dominate others have wounds that have not been touched

Does that mean, like, if we can't find on a self-sustaining Earth that is much longer lived than we are, if we cannot find a way to sustain the resources available to us and acknowledge that we are all interrelated,

How the f*** are we going to use AI?

It's in service to anything other than the destruction of our species.

And I think that at the darkest point in human history, when you look backwards, often it's in these most dark moments before dawn where things are lost.

So this gets back to the algorithm.

What do you optimize on?

You know, it's interesting.

I, um, I can't help but want to bring up the subject matter of awe.

You know, I, my entire YouTube series is called shots of awe and making videos about the subject of awe for 12 years.

And it's,

The reason is that I have found sort of that confrontation or that direct encounter with that which exceeds our mental maps.

You know, the Greater Good Science Center in Berkeley, the work of Dacher Kelter describes awe as an experience of such perceptual vastness or such perceptual expansion that our assumptions, the mental models of the world that we use to orient ourselves are forced into a state of humbling accommodation.

They just completely dissolve, right?