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Jim Gates: Supersymmetry, String Theory and Proving Einstein Right

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Subconscious and Thermonuclear Weapons

Suffering is a kind of crucible that triggers it. The mind I think is struggling to get out of this and the only way that you know is actually solve the problem. And even though you're not consciously solving problems, something is going on. That's when we get really big thoughts. Well, there may be, Freud would have a few things to say. Part of it is probably based on my own trajectory through life. My father was in the Army for US Army for 27 years. And so a lot of probably the things that wander around in my subconscious are connected to the experience.

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