Robert Sapolsky interview. Techno-optimism, happiness, FOMO, Metaverse

[@ataraxia7439]

Sapolsky has one of the most compassionate and at the same time rational views of justice and how to judge other people that I pray becomes mainstream all over the world.

[@YanZeLifting]

Another Robert Sapolsky interview! Can't wait to listen to the gems dropped by Robert. Awesome guy.

[@TheFamousMockingbird]

Robert Sapolsky is brilliant. A amazing ability to synthesize ideas and give lectures on where even dumb humanities graduates like me can understand. I used to watch his class lectures at Stanford quite often on youtube and enjoyed them all very much. Very good interview, this was my first time seeing this channel and I am looking forward to seeing more from the archive.

[@MrMikkyn]

Fantastic podcast. I'm reading Sapolsky's Determined and taking notes. I've read Behave which was great.

[@bebe8842]

any interview or podcast with salposky is great content!

[@fabian5002]

Great interviewer, just asked the necessary and let Robert speak.

[@MCJSA]

Great questions Greg. Great interview! There is so much here!

[@Mustreader]

Thanks for the feedback! This was recorded as part of Reforum, a conference where I was one of the hosts. We are in talks with Robert to record another discussion in a podcast format, which will be a longer one. Stay tuned!

[@ArtemMindsurfer]

wow! what a person! amazing

[@timeisup3094]

Is Robert Still teaching?

[@ArtemMindsurfer]

@@timeisup3094 i don’t know

[@mozartsbumbumsrus7750]

I can't wait for Dr. Professor Robert Sapolsky's new book on quantum to be finished and published but I hope to meet him to discuss my claim as a serious high art musician. My birth/growing up/working was San Francisco but my stomping grounds were Stanford, Palo Alto and Burlingame. As an original hippy, as an artist and also musician I was always on the outside looking in. Now, I'm out of the frying pan and into the fire of Londongrad as my EU citizenship and employment have been taken away by the bigoted nationalistic racists Fascists all!

[@chalinofalcone871]

"Yes because we now have the means to keep everybody under surveillance. Then no matter what part of the world are in we can put them under surveillance. It has become one of the main occupations of mankind just watching other people and keeping a record of their goings-on… And invading privacy, in fact just ignoring it. That it's, it's a- everybody has become porous. They let the light and the message go right through us." [Marshall McLuhan 1977 Interview - Violence as a Quest for Identity]

[@augustwest-e8l]

I too was an atheist until I discovered Robert Sapalsky!

[@chalinofalcone871]

"The principle of numbness comes into play with electric technology, as with any other. We have to numb our central nervous system when it is extended and exposed, or we will die. Thus the age of anxiety and electric media is also the age of the unconscious and of apathy." [Understanding Media: The Extension of Man, Marshall McLuhan, 1964, Ch. 4: The Gadget Lover; Narcissus as Narcosis]

[@chalinofalcone871]

"It is, however, no time to suggest strategies when the threat has not even been acknowledged to exist. I am in the position of Louis Pasteur telling doctors that their greatest enemy was quite invisible, and quite unrecognized by them." [Understanding Media: The Extension of Man, Marshall McLuhan, 1964, Ch. 1: The Medium Is the Message]

[@drzeworyj]

I am an atheist. my only personal god is Robert. not because I blindly follow whatever he says, but because almost everything he says hits my own vein of morality/the need for more empathy in this world. he's also the most humble and morally integrated scientist I know.

[@trumanhw]

Yup ... I'm an atheist also ... and anyone who has insight that rings true is a joy to listen to. I shouldn't have let it irk me to hear the host so profoundly misstate or misunderstand evolution.

[@etyght]

Cool bro

[@danifawcett2949]

Было бы круто с субтитрами)

[@Noitisnt-ns7mo]

I wonder how the lack of 'free will' would play out in a court case towards not being accountable? Although the 'justice system' is far from any logical endeavor. How will they respond when a robot murders?

[@MrWhatever1234567]

Could be way worse. Thanks guy’s

[@practice4089]

even if you could live forever, you probably wouldn't want to. considering life is full of suffering or just boring (regardless of wealth, power, beauty etc.), I think one would tire of dealing with the suffering and boredom at some point and choose death

[@ataraxia7439]

Even if that were the case I think most would like to at least live a lot longer than they are rn. It would be nice if it were a choice rather than something forced whether you want it or not imo

[@Noitisnt-ns7mo]

Consciousness is the real and the material is the illusion. Consciousness is apriori to the light wave breaking down to a particle.Or, at worse case a yin/yang thing.

[@maxgame4811]

😊

[@drzeworyj]

13:23 I find the laughter a bit out of place (although afaik, it's socially widely acceptable in Russia in this context) if you read the first chapter of 'Behave' and also know that Robert comes from a Jewish family. I am pretty sure he did not mean it as a joke.

[@trumanhw]

First, I'm happy to find another smart Russian to follow and support. GO RUSSIA !!! Evolution happens fastest as populations gets dangerously small and survival pressures become increasingly extreme. Isolated populations make it easier to see the contrast // rate of evolution. "Are we evolving fast enough" is to misunderstand or not know how evolution works I think. The greater the percent of the total population people can choose to reproduce with causes evolution (beyond microbial) to be if not stopped, very slow.

[@Noitisnt-ns7mo]

In 'reductionism', who is the one doing the suffering? To be told that after the journey nothing remains. The universal behavior pattern is 'always' about purpose. How strange that in the final analysis their is no purpose. In a world where every snowflake is different, in a universe where every moment passes but once.Where experiencing pain is the most reality one will feel and pleasure is intangible.

[@anonyonce4444]

Sapol.