• Death is the human physical machine failing 


• There is no law of nature that says the machine must fail 


• Tim Urban is excited for the time when the person can decide when their machine fails 


• He thinks that people will look back on death, as it happens today, as barbaric 


• The ultimate achievement is humans dying when they are read

If human history were a 1,000-page book, then the hunter-gatherer period would be the first 950 pages 

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• Different parts of the brain light up when political beliefs are challenged versus when non-political beliefs are challenged 


• The default-mode network of the brain lights up when political beliefs are challenged


• Our primitive mind comes pre-programmed to care a lot about politics


• Right now, tribalism has coalesced around politics more than anyt

How you arrived at what you think is more important than what you think

Ideologies quickly become religions to their followers, at which point the solutions proposed by such ideologies can no longer be challenged 

An echo chamber is a collaborative culture of low-rung thinking based on a sacred set of ideas that cannot be challenged by anyone in the echo chamber 

Criticism culture attacks the idea while cancel culture attacks the person

The media is not penalized for lying; corporate media journalists are incentivized to lie because they are rewarded with clicks and not held accountable by their team for lying

Leadership is the ability to move something in a direction that the cultural forces are not already taking things