Its a meeting of 2 comedy greats: Jimmy Carr and Trevor Noah. 🎭
Just listened to Trevor Noah’s conversation with Jimmy Carr. It was such a riveting conversation traversing AI, comedy, psychology, mortality, relationships, economics, technology, community, ideology and more.
What Now? With Trevor Noah - Jimmy Carr: Convenience is Stealing Your Life
Both Trevor and Jimmy are incredibly well-read, and I’ve always found their takes, be it controversial or unconventional, pretty interesting, and they may be right or they might just be wrong. This long-form conversation between them was quite fascinating indeed, and here are some I'd thought I'd share:
Jimmy starts off introducing the concept of Mankind's Three Humiliations 📜
Copernicus: Earth isn't the centre of the universe. > "We are not the centre of the universe."
Darwin: Humans evolved from animals, and are biologically in the category of animals > "We are just the same as other animals."
Freud: Our conscious mind isn't fully in control of ourselves. > "Our subconscious and actions aren't really under our control"
He then shares his take of AI being the the upcoming Fourth Humiliation, where we, as humans, can no longer claim to be the smartest being in the room.
He later mentions in regards to AI dependence - “Don't outsource any skill you're not comfortable losing” .🚨
I think its truly a thought worth pondering on. 💡 Convenience has a hidden cost: when we can outsource it, the skill itself can become unnecessary. And once a skill becomes unnecessary, there may be little incentive to maintain it. Then, one day, we just lose it.
They also had conversations on economics, tax, society, which linked to an interesting circle of thought:
Asking how would you define a revolution? And are we in one now?
In the podcast, Jimmy defines a revolution as the replacement of elites.
And the first signs of that is the masses no longer trusting institutions,
Which lead to conspiracy theories
He also mentions that:
We can live without truth pretty easily. But we can't live without trust. But we need truth to make trust.
👀 But where do we go from there? 🧐 Which ones would you agree with?
Definitely one of those conversations that made me pause and rethink many things. 💭