Part 2 of a special 2 part episode - Brian Keating in Conversation with James Altucher: How to become an expert. Do aliens exist? The state of AI, theories of everything (#167)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Brian Keating
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🗓️ 19 July 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome back everyone to part two of this special episode of Into the Impossible featuring a |
| 0:14.3 | conversation between Brian Keating and James Altutcher. Don't miss part one. |
| 0:19.9 | You know one time I wrote an article and I forget the exact title was something like |
| 0:25.8 | ten things I enjoy and one of the items I wrote was melancholy I like feeling melancholy and people are like |
| 0:34.8 | isn't that sadness like why would you like feeling that and yet there's something |
| 0:37.8 | very special and poetic about melancholy like this is the anniversary of your father's |
| 0:42.4 | death which makes you think about, |
| 0:44.8 | you know, your own children and perhaps how they will think about you after you die and maybe it reminds you of your father |
| 0:52.4 | and maybe he would like like you would have liked to |
| 0:54.0 | have seen them now like making a joke when they're so little and whatever and |
| 0:58.6 | that's a melancholy feeling but it's a really nice feeling and people sometimes think |
| 1:03.6 | happiness is just one-dimensional like hey I want a party now but but really it's more |
| 1:09.9 | it's all this mixture of feelings like we talked about why aspire to do something difficult |
| 1:16.7 | you know when you read the Nietzsche quote and it's very painful to do something difficult. |
| 1:23.7 | Think about your own experience. |
| 1:25.3 | You created such an amazing experiment. |
| 1:28.3 | I mean, a telescope in Antarctica |
| 1:31.8 | that's goal was to see so far into space that you see the beginning |
| 1:37.4 | of the universe like if that's not arrogance I don't know what is it's difficult and then it's painful when you can't achieve |
| 1:45.8 | the exact results you want but you still love doing it even though there's pain |
| 1:50.4 | there's just as it's 50% pain 50% semi good but you still do it even knowing that like |
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