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#175 – Yannis Pappas: History and Comedy

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Fear of Death Isn't the Instinctual

Humans have a knowledge that we're going to die one day. That kind of cognitive construct is difficult for us to deal with, he says. It's very difficult to kind of load that into whatever this little brain we got. Maybe that's what gives everything meaning. If everything lasted forever, if this went on and infinite them, there would be no meaning to it. There'd be nothing of magnitude or superficiality. I'm already sick of this place. And I'm just in my 40s. Like I'm done. I'm sick of me. I'm Sick of everything.

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