Geometry + Everything
Here We Are
Shane Mauss
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | For engineer, the most interesting thing about a machine is like getting it to work. |
| 0:03.9 | For a scientist, the most interesting thing about the machine is like, when does it fail |
| 0:07.5 | and what does it do when it fails? |
| 0:09.3 | Because that's the edge, right? |
| 0:10.4 | That's where you're on the edge between what we understand and what we don't understand, |
| 0:13.1 | where you see the machine and it works really well for doing some things. |
| 0:16.1 | But then the situations where it doesn't work, the situations where it can't tell a pig |
| 0:20.5 | from a dog, like, what is it doing? |
| 0:22.7 | What happens there? |
| 0:23.7 | That's where you can really understand something, how the machine actually works. |
| 0:28.2 | Are we, yes, where are we here? |
| 0:31.3 | Why are we here not entirely clear? |
| 0:34.6 | We are misfits gross into existence by random chance with no hints at all. |
| 0:40.7 | As to how we're supposed to make sense of it all. |
| 0:43.8 | It's immensely bizarre. |
| 0:45.8 | Here we are. |
| 0:49.0 | I got to say, like, I don't think you want to do stuff like this when you've been like |
| 0:52.4 | listening to your own voice for like seven hours straight and like, |
| 0:55.6 | oh yeah, I'm kind of listening to self-talk. |
| 0:58.0 | You know what I mean, it's, I read it, I had sections in a book that I read an audiobook |
| 1:07.5 | for before and it was so small that it was like four, it was like four to six hours of work. |
| 1:17.5 | So it wasn't that it wasn't bad. |
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