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Bret Weinstein on the meaning of life
Can I ask you a ridiculous question, please? we actually know the answer to the question. It's completely meaningless. There is nothing that we can do that escapes the heat death of the universe, or whatever it is that happens at the end. And we're not going to make it there anyway, but even if you were optimistic about our ability to escape every existential hazard indefinitely, ultimately it's all for naught and we know it, right? That said, once you stare into that abyss and then it stares back and laughs or whatever happens, then the question is, okay, given that, can I relax a little bit and figure out, well, what would make sense if that were true, right? And I think there's something very clear to me. I think if you do all of the, if I take the values that I'm sure we share and extrapolate from them, I think the following thing is actually a moral imperative. Being a human and having the opportunity is absolutely f_ing awesome, right? A lot of people don't make use of the opportunity and a lot of people don't have the opportunity, They get to be human, but they're too constrained by keeping a roof over their heads to really be free. But being a free human is fantastic. And being a free human on this beautiful planet, crippled as it may be, is unparalleled. I mean, what could be better? How lucky are we that we get that, right? So if that's true, that it is awesome to be human and to be free, then surely we must deliver that opportunity to as many people as we can. And how do you do that? Well, I think I know what job one is. Job one is we have to get sustainable. The way to get the maximum number of humans to have that opportunity, to be both here and free, is to make sure that there isn't a limit on how long we can keep doing this. That effectively requires us to reach sustainability. And then at sustainability, you could have a horror show of sustainability, right? You could have a totalitarian sustainability. That's not the objective. The objective is to liberate people. And so the question, the whole fourth frontier question, frankly, is how do you get to a sustainable and indefinitely sustainable state in which people feel liberated, in which they are liberated to pursue the things that actually matter, to pursue beauty, truth, compassion, connection, all of those things that we could list as unalloyed goods. Those are the things that people should be most liberated to do in a system that really functions. And anyway, my point is, I don't know how precise that calculation is, but I'm pretty sure it's not wrong. It's accurate enough. And if it is accurate enough, then the point is, okay, well, there's no ultimate meaning, but the proximate meaning is that one. How many people can we get to have this wonderful experience that we've gotten to have, right? And there's no way that's so wrong that if I invest my life in it, that I'm making some big error. I'm sure of that. Life is awesome, and we want to spread the awesome as much as possible. Spread the awesome.