#281 – Grimes: Music, AI, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
Lex Fridman
4.7 • 13.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2022
⏱️ 131 minutes
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(00:00) – Introduction
(08:24) – Identity
(12:22) – Music production
(25:13) – Spotify
(29:55) – Experimental music
(32:30) – Vision of future
(45:04) – Motherhood
(1:01:11) – Consciousness
(1:16:01) – Love
(1:21:52) – Metaverse
(1:34:34) – Technology and bureaucracy
(1:38:32) – Mortality
(1:46:57) – Understanding evil
(1:50:55) – Last person on Earth
(1:53:33) – Dan Carlin
(1:56:03) – Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
(2:02:28) – Coolest human invention
(2:03:49) – Advice for young people
(2:07:01) – Meaning of life
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The following is a conversation with Grimes, an artist, musician, songwriter, producer, director, and a fascinating human being |
| 0:07.6 | who thinks a lot about both the history and the future of human civilization, |
| 0:12.1 | studying the dark periods of our past to help form an optimistic vision of our future. |
| 0:19.3 | And now a quick few second mention of each sponsor. |
| 0:22.3 | Check them out in the description, it's the best way to support this podcast. |
| 0:25.8 | We got Brave for web browsing, novel for banking, lambda for deep learning, |
| 0:31.2 | public goods for supplies and blinkeess for books. |
| 0:34.8 | Choose wise and my friends. |
| 0:36.4 | And now, onto the full ad reads, as always, no ads in the middle. |
| 0:39.6 | I try to make this interesting, but if you skip them, please still check out our sponsors. |
| 0:43.8 | I enjoy their stuff. |
| 0:45.0 | Maybe you will too. |
| 0:47.0 | This show is brought to you by Brave, a fast, |
| 0:50.6 | privacy preserving browser that feels like Google Chrome, but without ads. |
| 0:54.6 | For the various kinds of tracking that ads can do, I love using it more than any other browser, |
| 1:00.2 | including Chrome. |
| 1:01.2 | That's my main go to browser. |
| 1:03.2 | The internet has been around for several decades. |
| 1:05.7 | There have been several browser wars. |
| 1:10.0 | And still, there is incredible innovation, including from some of the same people |
| 1:14.9 | that were part of the early browser wars. |
| 1:18.0 | It's just really exciting. |
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