back military spending uh folk singer and uh social activist Utah Phillips uh has a saying never delude yourself into thinking that the rich and Powerful will let you vote away their wealth and power oh do you agree with that that and if so what
that did happen and how remarkable some of them were? Let's not delude ourselves. This is the work of a lifetime.
I resisted. But I did delude myself-- and games are a real fertile garden of delusion-- I did delude myself for half a second into thinking, I'm going to-- but of course, there was never any chance. That's fair. So I do want to talk about this most recent world chess championship last month.
started coming into form when I did that, and it wasn't when I was trying to multitask. So I think we delude ourselves a little bit about that. There's a lot of irony in the fact that you had to do microsteps to finish a book about microsteps, but I think that's a really--
because he has an ambiguous gender. It's just a little teaser for the book that you should all read immediately. What about Gob? Gob is deluded in any number of ways as well, obviously he's also convinced that he's an outstanding Magician even though he continuously gives away the secrets to all of the tricks that he vowed to protect forever by creating the magicians alliance.
So I waited a week -- two weeks -- three weeks. I figured, "At some point, somebody is going to bolt the brackets to the wall, connect everything, finish up all the stuff." I was deluded . I had two organizers working on the thing. From their perspective, it was done -- the phones worked, the printers worked -- that's it. Networkers -- when a Networker says, "It's
So in a way, essentially, you don't exist. You're just a robot that is deluded into thinking you exist, as long as your heart is pumping, and your brain is registering and convincing you that you're there, but you're not really there, because if you just squash your brain, you simply cease to exist.
Are those valuable and respected there? And he just was extremely confident in there but utterly deluded .
Yeah. Did you just stand up and yell out, "check?" I wasn't quite-- I thought of doing that. I resisted. But I did delude myself-- and games are a real fertile garden of delusion-- I did delude myself for half a second into thinking, I'm going to-- but of course, there was never any chance.
They were so sweet. You can hypnotize yourself, or delude yourself that no one could ever understand how I feel, no one could ever, no one's ever felt this fucking miserable
But, you also are a giant powerful company, which is bumping up against issues that really matter to people like copyright and privacy and power -- concentration of power. issues. And I think you delude yourself if you think that you're not in for some tough years ahead because of your friend in the White House,
And I tried to write the book in that sort of grab-the-reader-by-the-collar spirit because I would have wanted a few years ago when I was someone who was aware, concerned, but ultimately complacent and deluded about how small a problem this was, I would have wanted someone to take me by their collar and yell at me and make me know just how fast it was happening, just how universal it was as a challenge, and just how bad it was going to get.
I could have done if I was determined, but I never thought that accumulated data would provide something this valuable. It was crucial for me how to react when I realized that I had been deluded by my fan group over 20 years of my musical career Musicians in next generations should be able to identify who like their music or not.
male #4: Hi, couple of quick points: thank goodness for the bell shaped curve because you'll always have some of one and some of the other. If you think you have the world knowledge at your fingertips you're sadly deluded . I have done research using Google where I've had to go to page 27 to get the correct result because the noise drowned out the signal.
It makes it invisible what's happening in other neighborhoods. Because when your school looks like the United Nations, you can then delude yourself into believing that that's the experience of every other kid. But in a school system that is heavily segregated, in order for some of these schools to look beautifully diverse, that means all the rest of the schools
I have done research using Google where I've had to go to page 27 to get the correct result because the noise drowned out the signal. If you don't have the ability to think critically like that you're just going to delude yourself and that may be a danger and one that I am particularly concerned about. I've raised a son who's now employed full time about almost a year which is quite an achievement for a college grad these days.
screwed if they haven't started -- wished that they had saved more for their retirement. So we know what's going to happen to us ten years from now, yet we delude ourselves into thinking, "We'll do it later." I met a girl on my book tour. She's about 25, 26. And she told me a really interesting story.
to understand that all beings are really aspiring to be happy, even the most deluded ones and the most politically
The problem is, is that system 1 thinking is really easily deluded .
So all they're saying is that if you attain, if you understand reality, what Buddha's discovery is, that when you fully understand reality, which again, is a revolutionary claim That's why other people get jealous of people in love, because they're so deluded the two of them.
He meant that as long as you are a man, you're deluded .
So the idea was that I just saw, maybe in a slightly deluded state, that there were these inefficiencies, and then I
Nobody. Well, they're trying to figure that out. But don't delude yourself into thinking we ever went to the moon for science then or now.
of yourself, it's very easy to think, oh, they're being deluded or they're just pure evil or something like that.
I mean, wow, I think I'll go back to being deluded , ignorant, and dizzy-minded.
Again, that said, though, anyone who thinks that food should stay in a bubble they’re deluded because that’s not how food has ever operated.
glasses guy, like, I mentioned some of his things and his, like, moral certainty, but he's sort of acting on and just sort of like, almost self-deluded kind of, you know, like