Exploring Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged' and Objectivism

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OUTLINE:
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00:00 – Introduction
07:02 – Will human civilization destroy itself?
09:49 – Where are the aliens?
14:36 – Tic Tac UFO and Bob Lazar
17:04 – Conspiracy theories
19:07 – The programming language of life
23:28 – The games that humans play
31:58 – Memory leaks in the simulation
34:29 – Theories of everything
36:14 – Ethereum startup story
44:02 – Cryptocurrency
53:28 – Self-help advice
57:08 – Comma.ai
59:02 – Comma two
1:07:50 – Tesla vs Comma.ai
1:16:53 – Driver monitoring
1:30:34 – Communicating uncertainty
1:32:22 – Tesla Dojo
1:38:50 – Tesla Autopilot big rewrite
1:45:09 – How to install the Comma Two
1:49:44 – Openpilot is Android & Autopilot is iOS
1:58:59 – Waymo
2:10:12 – Autonomous driving and society
2:12:24 – Moving
2:15:29 – Advice to Startups
2:28:32 – Programming setup
2:31:32 – Ideas that changed my life
2:39:37 – GPT-3
2:42:57 – AGI
2:47:00 – Programming languages that everyone should learn
2:53:33 – How to learn anything
2:56:05 – Book recommendations
3:04:28 – Love
3:06:17 – Psychedelics
3:08:38 – Crazy