Michael Stevens is the creator of Vsauce, one of the most popular educational YouTube channel in the world, with over 15 million subscribers and over 1.7 billion views. His videos often ask and answer questions that are both profound and entertaining, spanning topics from physics to psychology. As part of his channel he created 3 seasons of Mind Field, a series that explored human behavior.
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00:00 - Introduction 02:26 - Psychology 03:59 - Consciousness 06:55 - Free will 07:55 - Perception vs reality 09:59 - Simulation 11:32 - Science 16:24 - Flat earth 27:04 - Artificial Intelligence 30:14 - Existential threats 38:03 - Elon Musk and the responsibility of having a large following 43:05 - YouTube algorithm 52:41 - Mortality and the meaning of life https://lexfridman.com/michael-stevens/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=michael-stevens
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