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Joe Rogan Experience #2260 - Lex Fridman

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So, Jamie, what was your question?
It was too lex, but it was really like, because he, I wouldn't know.
Hardcore science question.
Yeah.
Based on physics.
Okay.
In theory, if you were in space and you maybe ejaculated,
is it possible that the ejaculate would propel you backwards?
Like, send you, you know, like, is it propulsion?
Is there enough power in there to propel you?
There's only one way to find out.
It depends on how long you hold it in for, right?
Like, if you didn't jerk off for, like, four months,
and then you had, like, the mother load.
I mean, you need something to go one way, so you go the other way.
Yeah, yeah.
And Lex had an answer, but I don't know.
What's the answer?
Well, he had a thought, I guess.
What if you blow out at the same time?
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I think in space, the, like, the biodynamics of the liquids is different.
Oh, yeah.
I think there's, it's actually difficult to have sex in space
and to get people pregnant in space.
Has anybody ever gotten pregnant on the space station?
Are they allowed even to have sex?
No, nobody has officially had sex in space.
Officially.
Officially.
But unofficially, of course, people have tried.
I wonder if they have.
I mean, how monitored are they?
There is a Wikipedia page about sex in space, and it's actually pretty detailed.
But it's Wikipedia, so you know it's half bullshit.
There's citations.
I encourage people to look into it, read in detail.
I mean, it's a serious problem.
If you want to, you know, colonize space, you probably want to have a lot of
sex and get
pregnant and have kids.
Well, don't you think they'll develop some sort of gravity-generating machines?
Yeah, absolutely.
You have to.
Like, Jeff Bezos talks about this a lot.
Yeah.
Like, how you create artificial gravity in space.
Because for Jeff Bezos, the likely way to colonize space is to have space
stations.
Elon is more focused on colonizing planets, Mars.
Yeah.
So both are obviously going to be necessary, and you need to have gravity in
order to get laid.
Bro, the first people that make that trip.
Ooh.
Yeah, Jamie was saying he wants to go.
I don't know about that.
I mean, I'm not that trip, but a trip.
You go eventually?
No, why not?
Oh, dude.
Why?
What if you die out there?
Okay.
You're going to die.
Everybody dies.
Yeah, but you don't want to die that way, dude.
If you get to decide one way to die, that's not one of the worst ways.
Oh, it's the worst way.
You're going to die in space?
Running out of air?
You don't know how it's going to happen?
It could be on re-entry.
Yeah, you could just cook instantly.
Could be on the way up.
You get hit by a micrometeorite.
Could be while you're asleep up there.
Could be.
Imagine standing on Mars, looking back at Earth.
Going, what the fuck did I do?
Why did I do this?
Yeah, and then having kids on Mars and teaching them.
Oh, those poor kids.
We came from there.
You think homeschooling's bad.
How about space schooling?
Just imagine the crazy shit that happens on Mars.
I mean, it's going to be, what, 100,000 people?
Yeah, and so you're going to get one psycho who's going to run everything, and
they're going
to take over.
Yeah.
Probably some cult leader convinces everybody to do it his way.
It's going to be a sex cult, 100%.
100%.
And we're back to sex and space.
Right, they're going to say, like, listen, if Elon is their man, Elon wants to
procreate
every chance he can, how many kids does he have now?
Allegedly.
Double digits.
No, we don't even know how many.
Well.
Because they think he's got secret kids.
They think.
Who's they?
They!
The fucking people that run the world.
Is there a Wikipedia page on this?
There probably is.
He's probably got secret kids.
Secret kids.
Yeah.
When you have, like, what does he have?
Like, 300 plus billion dollars?
Oh, it's growing.
You can have a few ladies here or there all over the place having kids.
There's a lot of ladies who just want to have kids.
They don't want a guy around.
Yeah.
Especially when they get a little older.
There's a castle in the south of France with, like, a harem.
Just a bunch of kids.
Waiting for them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Just waiting for daddy to land his rocket ship.
Online, it officially says at least 12.
At least 12 kids.
See, nobody even knows.
Imagine no one knows how many kids you have.
That's kind of crazy.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, that's the situation Genghis Khan was in, you know.
Well, he was doing it a little differently.
He was a little bit more forceful.
Actually, I mean, there's a lot of different perspectives on that.
Like, I...
What's the book on Genghis Khan?
So, first of all, there's obviously the Dan Carlin, Wrath of the Khans.
And in that series of podcasts, he criticizes the book, Jack...
Weatherford.
Weatherford.
Making of the Modern World.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World.
Genghis Khan and the Mongols and the Making of the Modern World.
Yeah, so that's the...
And now...
There it is.
Nice.
That is one of the things that Dan Carlin talks about, that when enough time
has passed,
that they sort of look at these marauders and murderers in a different light
and saying,
Oh, he opened up trade to the east.
Sure.
Also, killed 10% of the population of earth.
Lit people on fire and launched them on catapults onto thatched roofs.
Well, I think actually Dan Carlin makes a really good point.
How long do you wait until, you know, that you can tell these kinds of stories
about Hitler?
I think that's an example he uses.
Yes, that's what he uses.
But, you know, you want to be historically accurate here.
And Genghis Khan, there's a lot of different perspectives, including opening up
trade and
including what was the protocol based on what he was doing, the murdering.
So it was very clear before the invasion, he always said, you can surrender and
then we
would not murder anybody.
You just have to follow the law.
And the law was very, very sort of clear.
And it's basically enforcing a law of the land, so free trade, free practice of
religion.
And you have to pay taxes instead of to your king, you have to pay taxes to the
Mongol Empire.
But did they really say we won't kill anyone?
Yes, 100%.
They followed that, and this is very well documented.
Really?
Yes.
So everybody could have just laid down and 10% of the world's population wouldn't
be dead?
Yes.
Really?
So the nuance there is that sometimes they killed the upper classes.
Mm-hmm.
Well, you know, didn't they kill the royals by, like, crushing them to death?
They'd have lunch over them?
They were, listen, this is a different time, but they were brutal.
Oh, yeah.
If they, because they want to, they use fear as part of the military tactics,
right?
Yeah.
So they want people to be terrified, and they want people to talk about how
terrifying the
Mongol Empire is so that they forfeit more easily.
But, you know, there's a lot of aspects of it, not to say that Genghis Khan is
a feminist,
but there's a lot of progressive aspects.
Like, he put a lot of women in positions of power.
He gave a lot of rights to women.
This is a very strange perspective.
Yeah, but he did a lot of raping.
Nope.
There's not his kids.
I mean, it's...
What do you mean, nope?
When he would conquer these places, he would take women.
In a harem.
And they would become his new wives.
Yeah, but it wasn't their call.
So that's kind of rapey.
That's very rapey, yeah.
So, but there's a...
If you just fucking take them and make them have your kids.
There's the kind of mass rape that the Soviet soldiers did at the end of World
War II when
they're marching towards Berlin, which is extremely violent, vicious, and sort
of that kind of
rape, which is part of the terror of war.
And then there's, like, creating a harem of women, right?
So it's a different...
I think the main point is that, you know, this is something you talk about,
that, you know,
a large percent of the population, as that one study from, like, 20 years ago
found are descendants of Genghis Khan.
Huge.
Yeah.
I think the way to do that is to make everybody who's your descendant popular
within the culture.
Like, you can't, you can't have that many, have your DNA propagate throughout
civilization by raping.
You have to have everybody who, like, to have a high status for people that are
associated with Genghis Khan.
So you can't have that kind of thing with fear.
You can only do it with respect and high status.
And he, for several generations, created an empire that was flourishing.
Well, okay, you're kind of whitewashing that.
No, well...
I mean, they killed a million people in Jin China and turned their bones into a
stack, a pile that they recognized as snow-covered mountains from the distance.
That's what they thought it was until they got up on it.
When the Shah of Chorisma came there to check it out, he's like, where is
everybody?
They had abandoned the roads because there were so many dead bodies that the
roads had deteriorated into muck.
Yeah, let me actually sort of backtrack a little bit here because I'm
uncomfortable because I'm deeply involved in the military affairs of modern day.
And so there's a kind of...
I was just kind of having fun.
Yes, there was mass murder that was happening.
It was vicious.
And we could...
And I'm not a scholar of Genghis Khan.
I was simply saying that it's interesting how history looks at these different
empires.
For example, we venerate the Roman Empire, not we, but ancient Greece, and they
were equally, if not more, brutal in their conquests and their destruction.
Yeah, I mean, there's never really been a time where there was a leading
superpower that wasn't brutal.
It's, I think, become less and less brutal over time, and people document this.
So war, the number of people, as percent of the population killed is less and
less.
But what about Ukraine and Russia?
Like, how many people have died, all told, between the two?
It's got to be close to a million.
It's over a million casualties, which includes death and injuries.
And the estimates vary, but I think a good estimate is over 400,000 total,
maybe over 500,000 on both sides.
And the dead on the Ukraine side is probably one-third or one-fourth of the
total dead.
Really?
So three-quarters of them on the Russian side?
On the Russian side, yeah.
What do you attribute that to?
I think there's military scholars that understand this really well.
I think, in general, the invading force loses more people than the defending
force.
That's one aspect.
Of course, the Ukrainian military will say it's about the effectiveness of the
Ukrainian military.
And also, one of the other things they say is that the medical capabilities, so
the medics are really strong on the Ukrainian side, which is also tragic
because you're able to save lives.
But you have the injuries, the pain of war, you know, that the veterans have to
go through.
Right.
So they're able to save lives more effectively also.
Right.
But there is a big characteristic of the invading force usually loses more
people.
What was it like going over there and interviewing Zelensky?
So I should say I went to Ukraine twice after February 24, 2022, invasion.
And maybe it's good for me to also say where I come from because it's surreal
to be there for me.
Both my parents are from Ukraine, from Kiev and Kharkiv.
These are towns in Ukraine, cities in Ukraine.
I've been there many times.
I myself was born in Tajikistan, speaking of Genghis Khan.
And I lived there in Tajikistan.
And by the way, I'm regretting defending Genghis Khan in this conversation for
fun.
You didn't really defend.
Yeah.
I want to be sort of say that over and over again.
War is hell.
And I'm almost at tension between how much Roman Empire, Caesar, and these
folks are venerated.
And Genghis Khan is seen as this barbarian that was just destroying and raping
and so on.
They were all horrible, vicious warmongers.
All of them.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, Tajikistan, and I lived for a time 