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Lex Fridman · 2022-02-13

Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #264

Tim Urban: Elon Musk, Neuralink, AI, Aliens, and the Future of Humanity | Lex Fridman Podcast #264

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Anki

Damien Elmes (inferred)

“i recommend it to a lot of people”
“it's an app called anki i don't know if you don't know about it it's a space repetition app”— Lex Fridman
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Anki

Damien Elmes (inferred)

“i recommend it to a lot of people”
“what anki does is like literally it determines for me i don't have to do anything there's this giant pile of things i've saved”— Lex Fridman

The guest's own work

MediaBy the guest

Wait But Why

Tim Urban

“here's tim urban you wrote a wait but why blog post about the big and the small from the observable universe to the atom”— Lex Fridman
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Tim Urban's upcoming book on society and polarization

Tim Urban

“i'm writing right now um just finishing a book on uh kind of why our society is such a shit place at the moment just polarized”— Tim Urban

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Whoop

Whoop (inferred)

“the fitbit around my wrist is going to see you know the whoop is going to seem really hilariously old school in 20 years”— Tim Urban
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Fitbit

Fitbit (inferred)

“i think that we're like oh the wrist the fitbit around my wrist is going to see you know the whoop is going to seem really hilariously old school”— Tim Urban
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iRobot Roomba

iRobot (inferred)

“there's a bunch of amazing robots with boston dynamics and uh everyone's favorite vacuum robot irobot roomba”— Lex Fridman
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Tesla Autopilot

Tesla (inferred)

“quite a bit of stuff happened including with elon's work with tesla autopilot there's a bunch of amazing robots”— Lex Fridman
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Netflix

Netflix (inferred)

“some that could be used for for good like for netflix or something like that what are your thoughts about all this”— Lex Fridman
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iPhone 13

Apple (inferred)

“you guys need to make one working iphone 13 that could pass in the apple store today”— Tim Urban
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Apple Watch

Apple (inferred)

“i can leave the house with just my phone you know and nothing else or even just an apple watch but there's always this one thing”— Tim Urban
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Neuralink

Neuralink (inferred)

“i have to ask you about the wizard hat you wrote a blog about neurolink i got a chance to visit you know like a couple times”— Lex Fridman
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The Lion King

Disney (inferred)

“because the disney movies are good guys you know scar is totally bad and mufasa is totally good right”— Tim Urban
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Rick and Morty

Justin Roiland and Dan Harmon (inferred)

“this feels like a rick and morty episode it does it does”— Lex Fridman