Lex Fridman Podcast: #312 – Duncan Trussell: Comedy, Sentient Robots, Suffering, Love & Burning Man
Lex Fridman 8/16/22 - Episode Page
Duncan Trussell is a comedian, host of The Duncan Trussell Family Hour podcast, and co-creator of The Midnight Gospel. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(07:13) – Nietzsche’s eternal recurrence
(27:03) – Artificial intelligence
(55:33) – Joe Rogan
(1:04:06) – Facing death
(1:20:54) – Bhakti yoga
(1:27:46) – Afterlife
(1:38:10) – Suffering
(2:03:25) – War
(2:21:19) – Depression
(2:43:08) – Evil
(2:53:24) – Burning Man
(3:08:56) – The Midnight Gospel
(3:13:48) – Advice for young people
(3:23:19) – Duncan reads a poem