Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #218

Jaron Lanier: Virtual Reality, Social Media & the Future of Humans and AI | Lex Fridman Podcast #218




Jaron Lanier is a computer scientist, composer, artist, author, and founder of the field of virtual reality. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors: …

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    1:39 – What is reality?
    5:52 – Turing machines
    7:10 – Simulating our universe
    13:25 – Video games and other immersive experiences
    17:12 – Death and consciousness
    25:43 – Designing human-centric AI
    27:17 – Empathy with robots
    31:09 – Social media incentives
    43:29 – Data dignity
    51:01 – Jack Dorsey and Twitter
    1:02:46 – Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies
    1:07:26 – Government overreach and freedom
    1:17:41 – GitHub and TikTok
    1:19:51 – The Autodidactic Universe
    1:24:42 – Humans and the mystery of music
    1:30:53 – Defining moments
    1:41:39 – Mortality
    1:43:31 – The meaning of life

  2. In an empty society of trends and all important peer review money is the only answer money is the only hope self awareness is useless unless you enjoy fueling depression

  3. What’s wrong with perpetual annoyance is the government or politics the perpetual annoyance or will it be perpetualy annoying without government because the former regularly invades your freedom restricts your rights to defend yourself and can encroach on your property and privacy or is it the latter that people are so annoying they need to be held down and supressed by government or politics otherwise we will never be able to progress due to our incessant nuisance maybe it’s because I’m dumb but I don’t understand how that fit in the conversation

  4. Yo I love how Lex, you go for a counter like "I think we can make technology that is capable of creating empathy towrds humanity" and then Jaron's response is "yeah, like musical instruments are a great example" Yo the solutions are here and they're lo-if!!! We're artistic apes. Learn an instrument. Join a community band. Your life will improve. Ur jam on Beethoven was lovely 🙂

  5. Interesting interview, but his views on Bitcoin are not that well developed. I would love to see a discussion between him and Robert Breedlove or Michael Salyor

  6. Am I the only one seeing how incompetent and annoying this interviewer is? Just let the brilliant man speak without you interfering with your childish monotonous blabbings. The whole atmosphere is just off, funeral like, opposite of Lanier' s energy

  7. Jaron is the truthful and genuine example of what people who think they are smart sound like in their heads. What a delightful, sincere person. I loved every second of this interview.

  8. People already have control over their 'algorithms'. The idea of an algorithm is automation. Its giving you what it thinks you want, without physically hacking your brain. But if you don't want it, then simply move on with your life. Humans are not mindless drones or fish gulping for oxygen after being caught. Put down the phone. Turn off the the computer. And walk outside.

  9. you can not optimize for healthy conversation because twitter is not a conversation. it's a megaphone with an army behind each one. individual worth is measured by likes.

    real conversation already exists like discord. the complaint then would be reach, or you end up building an echo chamber because of banning users or self selection of who gets to be in what club.

    jaron is a genius. there's a big disillusionment of what is tech. it's not that you can't have a conversation on twitter, it's that you should recognize it's just a conversation with a megaphone and a crowd of likes and possibly hecklers.

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