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2021-11-30 - podcast-triggered brain dump

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recently came across yet another awesome interview Lex Fridman made in his podcast, with Lisa Fedlman Barrettt, on how brain works. absurdly quick and shallow overview:

  1. thinking is metabolically expensive.
  2. reaction / reflect is relatively cheap.
  3. under stress or if in low power, brain will prefer reaction over thinking.

now combine these 3 and understand why it is so hard to understand others, if you do not know them: “us vs them thinking”. thing: racism, sexism, political and religious extremism, “assholes from other department”, etc…

another great quote from Lex's interview with Scott Aaronson: life should not be a journey to the grave, with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skim the outside, in a clad of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming: “wow, what a ride!”.

last but not least: if you are always succeeding, it means you are doing something wrong.

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