Tim Urban

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #360 – Tim Urban: Tribalism, Marxism, Liberalism, Social Justice, and Politics · 20 Feb 2023 podcast

So we're behind that.

But when he was talking about that, and honestly, I...

This is something I've been wrong about because I went to one of the Facebook conferences and tried out all the new Oculus stuff.

And I was pretty early talking to some of the major players there because I was going to write a big post about it that then got swallowed by this book.

But I would have been wrong in the post because what I would have said was that this thing is... When I tried it, I was like...

This is... Some of them suck.

Some of them make you nauseous and they're just not that... The headsets were big and... But I was like, the times when this is good, it is... I have this feeling I haven't had... It reminds me of the feeling I had when I first was five and I went to a friend's house and he had Nintendo.

And he gave me the controller and I was looking at the screen and I pressed a button and Mario jumped.

And I said... I said...

I can make something on the screen move.

And the same feeling I had the first time someone showed me how to send an email, it was like really early.

And he's like, you can send this.

And I was like, it goes, I can press enter on my computer and something happens on your computer.

Those were obviously, you know, when you have that feeling, it often means you're witnessing a paradigm shift.

And I thought, this is one of those things.

And I still kind of think it is, but it's kind of weird that it hasn't, you know, like where's the VR revolution?

Yeah.

Like a dumb part of my brain is genuinely convinced that this is real.

And then the smart part knows it's not.

But that's why the dumb part was like, we're not walking off that cliff.

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