What made the mammoth such a darling to Homo sapiens is the way its genes shaped it. Should we manage to bring it back, it would mean that evolution has given the mammoth the genes required to survive its own extinction (by the roundabout way of making it cute enough to a species of ingenious primates that it would go through the trouble of cloning it). Just for that, just for that demonstration of the utter unpredictability of evolution, I want the project to work!
The killing of mammoths was probably so quick that they do not have an evolved response to humans. I wonder how much of these sorts of responses are genetics and what gene editing could do to docile reintroduced animals with respect to only humans to insure that they never turn on people they come across. And why couldnt we just put the dog genes in other predatory and large animals with additional superior genes to make the genes spread faster. And then no-one would be eaten by a bear or you could go up to it and pet it too.
Now there is a spanner to throw into the works of theoretical genetics. Physical traits that recapitulate or simulate neoteny of the dominant species preserves against extinction before and after loss of a species? We live in weird times.
Such an interesting perspective! Sadly, I don't think you can demonstrate the presence of a selection pressure of the kind you're describing on mammoths before they went extinct, though your idea may apply to other species present today.
This is only true in a facile way. Evolution gives animals all their characteristics so evolution necessarily gives mammoths the characteristics that humans want to revive. A creationist could provide the same argument replacing evolution with God.
@@davegold I don't quite understand what you're getting at. I know from a superficial standpoint that technically all characteristics of an animal are determined by the process of evolution, but I still think it is somewhat of a stretch to attribute evolution regarding an animal that has been extinct for thousands of years to the technology we have that may bring it back, since that technology did not exist at all during the time the species existed and underwent its various selection pressures. If the argument is simply that evolution caused the species to have a significant role in its ecosystem and we as humans later on value that enough to use our technology to bring it back from extinction, couldn't that be said to apply to almost every species on the planet within their respective ecosystems? If something like this applies to everyone, is it really a characteristic of the target species, or is it just a characteristic of humans?
@@ChrisJWinn You see, you can't just drop Ben Lamm into an ecological system without the system itself potentially being thrown into disorder. The Mammoth is simply stating the obvious - that much more research needs to be done before reintroducing Ben Lamm into an ecosystem - ANY ecosystem.
It sounds like you're imagining the resources spent on this project works otherwise go toward habitat destruction prevention or something, which doesn't make sense. Projects like this can work in parallel to other ecological projects. It reminds me of people who say we shouldn't be investing into inhabiting Mars when we haven't mastered all problems on Earth yet. Well then we will never get to Mars. There will always be problems. You can't let that be the ultimate excuse for not doing new things.
'Bringing back the Mammoth' is what my wife calls my performance in bed after getting a good night sleep that comes right after a series of sleepless nights and exhaustion.
Why not the passenger pigeon over the dodo? Also - the billionaire’s $ would probably be better spent on saving current species and habitat which it could actually make a difference in instead of these Frankenstein projects 🤦🙈
"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here - it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done, and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam, no. These animals had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction. They served their respective role in the ecosystem and when that ecosystem changed, they had to go. And you seek to reintroduce what is essentially an invasive species in the Anthropocene." Ian something, something.
These animals went extinct in part because of human hunting. Yes climate change pushed them into smaller and smaller habital areas, but theres good evidence that continued hunting alongside that drove them over the edge. The last surviving mammoths lived on isolated islands away from people, only 4000 years ago.
I get the fascination with bringing back extinct animals but why don't we put more effort into obtaining fresh DNA of all the animals that are on the brink of extinction now and start working on those. Seems that would be a more realistic and noble goal in the short to medium term.
crasy how they think that recreating lost speicies in a sci-fiesque way is easyer than to stop destroying their habitat so they don't go exctinct in the first place
One of my major disagreements with Sam is regarding utility of X. The guest in previous podcast pushed back on it, and this podcast highlights why she was right. Around 30:13 mark in full episode, they talk about how will they reintroduce these animal in wild , and this guy goes on about how they are working with special groups which involve indeginous tribe representatives and how some animals are precious to them etc. This just proves why anti woke platforms are necessary. Even cutting edge science is not immune from giving undue weight to some backward tribe which should not have any special say in status of these animals. And X is the only place where this kind of approach can get its well deserve criticism.
you lose alot of credibility using the 'woke' label, and will be instantly written off by a lot of people as soon as they see it. your point is still strong without it, id ditch it
@jmc5335 If you read my comment again, I'm referring to preferential treatment. Yes, everyone should have a say in what animal is released in their backyard. But why does a group that is labeled as 'indigenous' get a preferential voice? I would like you to articulate why indigenous people should be given this extra respect. And what it comes down to, imo, is the very moniker if indigenous. Countries like Australia, America are doing a great disservice by not calling the actual builders of these countries,i.e. the European settlers, indigenous as well. These Europeans should be celebrated for building these countries, yet a talk of equal treatment is considered a taboo by some
No, it's a complete failure of the human race. Killing species off and resurrecting others is insanity. It means we get to kill species because we can bring them back. It's truly horrific.
Thanks for the analysis! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?
Disappointed in Sam for not pressing him on the ethics part. His answer was basically "its moral because indigenous humans are fine with us creating the animals". Should obviously have a look at the ethics from the perspective of the animals themselves...
WTF Sam I literally thought about this like today and you’re posting a video on it! PS: don’t mind you reading my mind, keep doing that. PPS: excuse my language I was just really surprised.
Yes, bringing backing the woolly mammoth will save the world…. When coral reefs are beaching. When Plastic is in a Woman’s Placenta… What the world needs NOW is a Tasmanian tiger…
I never understood the point about bringing these animals back until I understood the financial incentives of all the spin-offs from doing it. Just imagine the pushback from starting an artificial womb industry for humans. That would never happen. But you can easily disguise these initiatives by pretending that is for other reasons.
oof, the irony of this topic! every time you talk about the dangers of AI, it feels like im watching some version of jurassic park - it had the same themes warning us of our limitations in controlling nature and technology. very interested to hear this literal interpretation of the same topic, sam! 😬🦖
De extinction is fascinating and I wonder if it may one day lead to resurrecting the dead. What do you know, every biblical prophecy will come true through science. Oh, the irony...
The host mother of the Tasmanian tiger will be a mouse, not kidding. They have the same size embryos as they are both marsupials...A tiger born from a mouse.
TLDR: The scientist didn’t learn anything from the movie. They’ll probably end up releasing things into the wild and completely destroying some poor modern animal’s habitat. Worst case we’ll all get some ancient disease 🙄
Species are going extinct left and right due to the climate crisis while smart people indulge in futile projects like this... Perhaps this was discussed behind the paywall, but should have been addressed at the start of the conversation.
@@ExploreVanIsle The Bramble Cay melomys is the first known mammal to go extinct due to human caused climate change. It is followed by many other species that you could look up yourself.
Hi Sam love your videos. Could you please have a conversation with an expert about gene editing in humans not just for curing diseases but for enhancing cognitive traits?
Sam Harris logic- If everything was different right, I would not be wrong right, and since eveything could be different right, I am correct right. Somone suffering from NPD is incapable of admitting when they are wrong.
Read the Three Body Problem series and talk to Cixin Liu. Most important series I've ever read and had a drastic influence on my worldview and intellectual development. Topics throughout the series are epistemology, economics, sociology, symbolic interpretation, futurism, longtermism, game theory, philosophy of science, and much more, with each topic breaking into subtopics, each one extremely potent. I've been thinking about it almost every day for five years, and it continues to produce new insights.
Ok so how can you be just thinking about all of this information you have stored in your brain without external flicking of the switch? I’d be curious because I’d love to access everything I’ve got on my brain without external flicking of sorts.. anyway it’s just constantly blank otherwise and I’m not even joking.
Sam, can you do a podcast on the importance of safeguarding against the increasing prevelance of Monkeypox? Should we mask? Will vaccinations help? Boosters? Social distancing? Thanks in advance - Concerned Subscriber.
I think anytime science does something extreme like this, it should ask itself, what does this action mean not only literally but symbolically? … and for science itself as a collective to understand the universally symbolic meaning of doing x. I think That would be a way of expanding on the meaning of what it means to be scientifically significant. For example, when I first saw this headline, I thought perhaps it was a metaphor. Bringing back the mammoth: it sounds like some sort of high functioning weapon or enlightening historical strategy for world domination 😂 mammoths are sort of a better strategy than AI. But only sort of. And only in that universe where genetic engineering needs to compete with AI. I mean to quote Shakespeare, ‘It’s all sound and fury, signifying nothing’ … I think that if the symbolic meaning of scientific events is not considered, we are going to continue down into the deep valley of meaninglessness in which we are already mired collectively as a society. Although, maybe that’s the nature of life anyway and we might as well keep moving forward. But maybe reality is actually based on principles of animism … that everything you do , say, think, matters infinitely and therefore not at all (but that only can be said from a vantage point that has no need for ethics…)But still I see in science a lack of consideration for the long ranging symbolic value of events … If we keep on destroying all Of the natural Wildlife … where will these extinct animals Live? I just can’t help But think They’ll become another Ridiculous internet meme with a zoo presence. What kind of life is that? I’m exploring genetic engineering in the new book I’m writing. It’s a half human half alien (from the great alien mother …) prostitute … named alien space babe. She was genetically modified by the US government for the military. Thanks for this. It increases my awareness that will Hopefully enrich my story as I keep the narrative going for this character of mine.
Being a businessman, you can see straight through chancer bullshitters money raising pitch deck bollocks like this guy. “My George will bring back the dragon”
I don’t care anymore. Do whatever. It’s the egos that are going to drive us to the point of extinction. Just make sure you or your estate is around to deal with the consequences of your choices. Everything is a trade off.
Scientists: "50% of biodiversity will be gone in 30 years." This guy: "How can I profit most from this?". These kind of people are why our mess is as bad as it is right now.
With all that´s happening in the world right now, seeing Sam spending one podcast for a guy that wants to bring the mammoth back, I just can´t help but thinking about this one term Sam did use a lot in the past and rightfully so - opportunity cost.
95% of all life that has ever existed is extinct,it’s the way things are suppose to be. People forget most of your favorite Dinosaurs like the stegosaurus etc were extinct for more millions of years before T. rex than T. rex was to our present time. Something to consider.
Could we bring back Christopher Hitchens?
Christopher is one with everything.
He’d have to be born of a virgin! Hitch would laugh, then pour sherry🤔🥂🙌🇬🇧
He‘d probably want to leave again immediately, considering Trump and everything else that happened since
He might not be happy to awaken from the deep sleep into the current political hell
Hitch has been spinning in his grave witnessing Sam's derailment on freedom of the press.
So no video of Sam Harris petting the mammoth?
Just u concentrate on patting your own little mammoth.
If we don't have it in 24 hours, AI is a failed project.
Someone is working on it now
Is that a euphemism?
with the power of AI, all things are possible
I thought the title was metaphorical, turns out they literally be talking bout mammoths
*are
@@Alexander_TronstadHoney it was humor. He didn’t need to be corrected 🙄
Fossil fueled wolly Martians mammoth. More smart people being selfish and stupid.
Bring them all back! Bring the T-Rex back! I want to have a challenge on my drive to work! LFG!
What made the mammoth such a darling to Homo sapiens is the way its genes shaped it. Should we manage to bring it back, it would mean that evolution has given the mammoth the genes required to survive its own extinction (by the roundabout way of making it cute enough to a species of ingenious primates that it would go through the trouble of cloning it). Just for that, just for that demonstration of the utter unpredictability of evolution, I want the project to work!
The killing of mammoths was probably so quick that they do not have an evolved response to humans. I wonder how much of these sorts of responses are genetics and what gene editing could do to docile reintroduced animals with respect to only humans to insure that they never turn on people they come across. And why couldnt we just put the dog genes in other predatory and large animals with additional superior genes to make the genes spread faster. And then no-one would be eaten by a bear or you could go up to it and pet it too.
Now there is a spanner to throw into the works of theoretical genetics. Physical traits that recapitulate or simulate neoteny of the dominant species preserves against extinction before and after loss of a species? We live in weird times.
Such an interesting perspective! Sadly, I don't think you can demonstrate the presence of a selection pressure of the kind you're describing on mammoths before they went extinct, though your idea may apply to other species present today.
This is only true in a facile way. Evolution gives animals all their characteristics so evolution necessarily gives mammoths the characteristics that humans want to revive. A creationist could provide the same argument replacing evolution with God.
@@davegold I don't quite understand what you're getting at. I know from a superficial standpoint that technically all characteristics of an animal are determined by the process of evolution, but I still think it is somewhat of a stretch to attribute evolution regarding an animal that has been extinct for thousands of years to the technology we have that may bring it back, since that technology did not exist at all during the time the species existed and underwent its various selection pressures. If the argument is simply that evolution caused the species to have a significant role in its ecosystem and we as humans later on value that enough to use our technology to bring it back from extinction, couldn't that be said to apply to almost every species on the planet within their respective ecosystems? If something like this applies to everyone, is it really a characteristic of the target species, or is it just a characteristic of humans?
Bringing Back Ben Lamm: A Conversation with a Mammoth
„So mammoth, how do you believe our environment will react to the reintroduction of Ben Lamm?“ „*unintelligible trumpeting*!“
Someone explain
@@ChrisJWinn You see, you can't just drop Ben Lamm into an ecological system without the system itself potentially being thrown into disorder. The Mammoth is simply stating the obvious - that much more research needs to be done before reintroducing Ben Lamm into an ecosystem - ANY ecosystem.
Make mammoth great again!
hahaha
MMGA!
Mammoth derangement syndrome
Just waiting for the "racist" comments.
Mammi (plural)?
So we cannot properly care for modern species, but we want to make things even more complicated?? Oh boy.
We can do both
It sounds like you're imagining the resources spent on this project works otherwise go toward habitat destruction prevention or something, which doesn't make sense.
Projects like this can work in parallel to other ecological projects.
It reminds me of people who say we shouldn't be investing into inhabiting Mars when we haven't mastered all problems on Earth yet. Well then we will never get to Mars.
There will always be problems. You can't let that be the ultimate excuse for not doing new things.
I say this to my girlfriend when she wants to get a dog
@@triton62674 No, we can't. We can't even secure our borders.
The second this goes public I’m buying as much stock as I can get ahold of.
'Bringing back the Mammoth' is what my wife calls my performance in bed after getting a good night sleep that comes right after a series of sleepless nights and exhaustion.
Why not the passenger pigeon over the dodo? Also - the billionaire’s $ would probably be better spent on saving current species and habitat which it could actually make a difference in instead of these Frankenstein projects 🤦🙈
"I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here - it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done, and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. This isn't some species that was obliterated by deforestation, or the building of a dam, no. These animals had their shot, and nature selected them for extinction. They served their respective role in the ecosystem and when that ecosystem changed, they had to go. And you seek to reintroduce what is essentially an invasive species in the Anthropocene."
Ian something, something.
innit! 😑😪
Yea i kinda agree with you,animals that went extinct made room for others to thrive.
These animals went extinct in part because of human hunting. Yes climate change pushed them into smaller and smaller habital areas, but theres good evidence that continued hunting alongside that drove them over the edge. The last surviving mammoths lived on isolated islands away from people, only 4000 years ago.
@@AvenueEmpire humans are part of nature. We wouldn’t be here if mass extinctions didn’t happen in the past.
Bring back the Wooly Mammoth!
With this and cultured meat, we are ready for 100% USDA certified Mammoth Steaks.
Mammoths walking amongst us again? How truly awesome, and how far we have come.
Or could still could turn out like Jurassic Park
@@KJ-yk4nq Maybe, we will have to see.
I get the fascination with bringing back extinct animals but why don't we put more effort into obtaining fresh DNA of all the animals that are on the brink of extinction now and start working on those. Seems that would be a more realistic and noble goal in the short to medium term.
Ivory billed woodpecker please
A NEW POWER IS RISING
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This guy has obviously not lived/worked in Rural Africa or our poor squatter communities They simply want to be able to survive day to day!! 💖
We didnt get flying cars or hover boards but we gonna get fucking Jurassic park... Ill take it lol
crasy how they think that recreating lost speicies in a sci-fiesque way is easyer than to stop destroying their habitat so they don't go exctinct in the first place
Cool so where the already-existing mammoths that we can preserve?
One of my major disagreements with Sam is regarding utility of X. The guest in previous podcast pushed back on it, and this podcast highlights why she was right.
Around 30:13 mark in full episode, they talk about how will they reintroduce these animal in wild , and this guy goes on about how they are working with special groups which involve indeginous tribe representatives and how some animals are precious to them etc.
This just proves why anti woke platforms are necessary. Even cutting edge science is not immune from giving undue weight to some backward tribe which should not have any special say in status of these animals. And X is the only place where this kind of approach can get its well deserve criticism.
you lose alot of credibility using the 'woke' label, and will be instantly written off by a lot of people as soon as they see it. your point is still strong without it, id ditch it
@chaoswraith Yeah. This was a lazy post. I generally tend to avoid it, but in this case, it encapsulates the kind of behaviour I despise perfectly
@@kirathekillernote2173You despise people having a say.
@jmc5335 If you read my comment again, I'm referring to preferential treatment. Yes, everyone should have a say in what animal is released in their backyard. But why does a group that is labeled as 'indigenous' get a preferential voice?
I would like you to articulate why indigenous people should be given this extra respect. And what it comes down to, imo, is the very moniker if indigenous. Countries like Australia, America are doing a great disservice by not calling the actual builders of these countries,i.e. the European settlers, indigenous as well. These Europeans should be celebrated for building these countries, yet a talk of equal treatment is considered a taboo by some
@@kirathekillernote2173I'm glad to hear you believe in open borders.
This would be a funnier conversation to have with Sam Harris, Ken Ham, and Ben Lamm 😆
“The future appears to be almost here.”
Or you could say the PAST appears to be almost here. 😎
Mammoth derangement syndrome
Joe Rogan believes in Dragons, now Sam believes in Mammoths, I like where this is heading
I'm not sure that I believe in them, but oh boy do I ever imagine dragons.
Joe and Sam are markedly different Sam deduces beliefs base on evidence
Joes a frickin moron
Dovakin
When it comes to genetic engineering dragons stop being mythical creatures. They just become a bio-engineering puzzle to solve.
Komodo dragons? They already exist.
Beth Shapiro, author of "How to Clone a Mammoth", is the one who should be being interviewed on this topic.
The novosaur project is also really fascinating.
Absolutely bring back the mighty mammoth 🦣 whooo hooo ! Oh, yes all of the extinct critters 🎉💪 as well !
Thanks.
This is a triumph of science. Incredible stuff.
No, it's a complete failure of the human race. Killing species off and resurrecting others is insanity. It means we get to kill species because we can bring them back. It's truly horrific.
Can we do the reverse to DJT?
This is such a terrible idea. I can’t help but sadly shake my head.
When you gonna host Ben Stiller, Sam?
Thanks for the analysis! A bit off-topic, but I wanted to ask: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). Could you explain how to move them to Binance?
Why subscribe when there are many ben lamm interviews on TH-cam for free?
Disappointed in Sam for not pressing him on the ethics part. His answer was basically "its moral because indigenous humans are fine with us creating the animals". Should obviously have a look at the ethics from the perspective of the animals themselves...
Are you thinking they'll end up being farmed and murdered for food?
If you eat meat you don’t have a leg to stand on with this argument
i mean....i hope they watched jurassic park because it basically covered all this 😬
I haven't watched the video yet but that sounds like the biggest strawman ever you just made
The animals would be here if not for human predation, morality sorted.
By the way, Dr. Sam saahib, could you please have Dr Bernardo Kastrup ok your pod as a guest. I think you guys could have an interesting discussion.
What happened to the plan to bring back the passenger pigeon?
Donald Trunk
Life, uh, finds a way.
Can we talk more about the transmissible facial tumors?
WTF Sam I literally thought about this like today and you’re posting a video on it!
PS: don’t mind you reading my mind, keep doing that.
PPS: excuse my language I was just really surprised.
Mmmm Mammoth steaks! You know that's what we will end up doing.
Elon needs mammoths for his Mars colony. 😅
Yes, bringing backing the woolly mammoth will save the world…. When coral reefs are beaching.
When Plastic is in a Woman’s Placenta…
What the world needs NOW is a Tasmanian tiger…
I never understood the point about bringing these animals back until I understood the financial incentives of all the spin-offs from doing it. Just imagine the pushback from starting an artificial womb industry for humans. That would never happen. But you can easily disguise these initiatives by pretending that is for other reasons.
How about the American buffalo? The carrier pigeon?
There was a lot of work done to try this with the passenger pigeon and now they’ve decided on the dodo. Hmmm this whole thing is starting to smell
I don't need a whole Mammoth. Can't we just make some of that lab meat and have some Mammoth burgers? Fuckin'... Dodo nuggets? 😛
Why are we doing this? How does it benefit us and mammoths.
oof, the irony of this topic! every time you talk about the dangers of AI, it feels like im watching some version of jurassic park - it had the same themes warning us of our limitations in controlling nature and technology. very interested to hear this literal interpretation of the same topic, sam! 😬🦖
De extinction is fascinating and I wonder if it may one day lead to resurrecting the dead. What do you know, every biblical prophecy will come true through science. Oh, the irony...
Good Topic
This truly the elephant in the room ... what about the hunter biden pardon? Lets talk about that ...
Nothing to see here. We all know if it happened to Trump or Trump's family Sam would be talking about it for years..
Wouldn't mammoths be at extremely high risk of re-extinction due to a low amount of genetic diversity?
Wolly Martian Mammoth
I wanna ride one!
where will they go with such coats and small ears? im sure hes considerate about QOL of resurrected mammoths ...lets find out....
guess who making a comeback 🦣
Top 10 comebacks of all time.
The host mother of the Tasmanian tiger will be a mouse, not kidding. They have the same size embryos as they are both marsupials...A tiger born from a mouse.
TLDR: The scientist didn’t learn anything from the movie.
They’ll probably end up releasing things into the wild and completely destroying some poor modern animal’s habitat. Worst case we’ll all get some ancient disease 🙄
Species are going extinct left and right due to the climate crisis while smart people indulge in futile projects like this... Perhaps this was discussed behind the paywall, but should have been addressed at the start of the conversation.
That's just whataboutism. They're not the same people.
People will work on what they want.
Name one species gone due to the climate crisis.
@@ExploreVanIsle The Bramble Cay melomys is the first known mammal to go extinct due to human caused climate change. It is followed by many other species that you could look up yourself.
Hi Sam love your videos. Could you please have a conversation with an expert about gene editing in humans not just for curing diseases but for enhancing cognitive traits?
So, eugenics? 😮
Sam Harris logic-
If everything was different right, I would not be wrong right, and since eveything could be different right, I am correct right.
Somone suffering from NPD is incapable of admitting when they are wrong.
Sam is a World Champion Pseudo intellectual.
Sammy The Pseudo Harris.
Another Elon that doesn't actually understand the limitations. That gets in the way of investment spin.
Read the Three Body Problem series and talk to Cixin Liu. Most important series I've ever read and had a drastic influence on my worldview and intellectual development. Topics throughout the series are epistemology, economics, sociology, symbolic interpretation, futurism, longtermism, game theory, philosophy of science, and much more, with each topic breaking into subtopics, each one extremely potent. I've been thinking about it almost every day for five years, and it continues to produce new insights.
Ok so how can you be just thinking about all of this information you have stored in your brain without external flicking of the switch? I’d be curious because I’d love to access everything I’ve got on my brain without external flicking of sorts.. anyway it’s just constantly blank otherwise and I’m not even joking.
Interesting
I want sam to debate Joe Rogan and take his soul to the shadow realm without mercy
❤
Sam, can you do a podcast on the importance of safeguarding against the increasing prevelance of Monkeypox? Should we mask? Will vaccinations help? Boosters? Social distancing? Thanks in advance - Concerned Subscriber.
I think anytime science does something extreme like this, it should ask itself, what does this action mean not only literally but symbolically? … and for science itself as a collective to understand the universally symbolic meaning of doing x.
I think
That would be a way of expanding on the meaning of what it means to be scientifically significant.
For example, when I first saw this headline, I thought perhaps it was a metaphor. Bringing back the mammoth: it sounds like some sort of high functioning weapon or enlightening historical strategy for world domination 😂 mammoths are sort of a better strategy than AI. But only sort of. And only in that universe where genetic engineering needs to compete with AI.
I mean to quote Shakespeare, ‘It’s all sound and fury, signifying nothing’ … I think that if the symbolic meaning of scientific events is not considered, we are going to continue down into the deep valley of meaninglessness in which we are already mired collectively as a society. Although, maybe that’s the nature of life anyway and we might as well keep moving forward.
But maybe reality is actually based on principles of animism … that everything you do , say, think, matters infinitely and therefore not at all (but that only can be said from a vantage point that has no need for ethics…)But still I see in science a lack of consideration for the long ranging symbolic value of events …
If we keep on destroying all
Of the natural
Wildlife … where will these extinct animals
Live? I just can’t help
But think
They’ll become another
Ridiculous internet meme with a zoo presence. What kind of life is that?
I’m exploring genetic engineering in the new book I’m writing. It’s a half human half alien (from the great alien mother …) prostitute … named alien space babe. She was genetically modified by the US government for the military.
Thanks for this. It increases my awareness that will
Hopefully enrich my story as I keep the narrative going for this character of mine.
Bring them back so we can eat it?
😂🙃 Everyone’s loosing it
Sam needs to figure out how to bring back his credibility
Uplift next?
awesome, was getting tired of hearing about politics
When I read the title I thought it was going to be another conversation about Trump's return.
saying genomics instead of genetics is extremely pretentious
Not really. The terms have different meanings.
Not really.
Lex sent me for a pity watch ... hopefully you aren't terrible
What could possibly go wrong? 🙄
How do you know how similar a mammoth is to an asian elephant if you dont have to mammoth dna? I dont get it.
There’s quite a lot of mammoth dna available because so many were preserved in the permafrost
How are taxpayers going to foot the bill for this?
Private company
Mammi? Plural🤔
No Trump rant in the introduction. Sam must be taking his meds.
Being a businessman, you can see straight through chancer bullshitters money raising pitch deck bollocks like this guy. “My George will bring back the dragon”
I don’t care anymore. Do whatever. It’s the egos that are going to drive us to the point of extinction. Just make sure you or your estate is around to deal with the consequences of your choices. Everything is a trade off.
Man moth?
Your videos are always so informative and interesting! Thank you for that! 💚🍓
We're all responsible for the loss of biodiversity. It's no one's fault, there are simply billions too many of us. Global human overpopulation.
when are you going to debate dave smith sam???
I hope the mammoth gets its covid boosters.
Yeah, they probably wouldn't survive modern diseases.
Mammoth virus incoming.
What a shitty idea
Stfu they're literally resurrecting the dead
Yeah.. let’s bring back lost species’ instead of addressing the root issue of biodiversity loss.
Lets see them bring back an extinct rodent first before a mammoth.
Scientists: "50% of biodiversity will be gone in 30 years."
This guy: "How can I profit most from this?".
These kind of people are why our mess is as bad as it is right now.
No it won’t
Oh great as if we don’t have enough existential risks to our world. Now you want to bring another one into the fold. The hubris of this guy.
I don’t believe a word Sam says nor would i trust anyone he vouches for anymore. He has become what he warned us about Joe Rogan .
huh? why? how?
@@chaoswraithCharles Murray
With all that´s happening in the world right now, seeing Sam spending one podcast for a guy that wants to bring the mammoth back, I just can´t help but thinking about this one term Sam did use a lot in the past and rightfully so - opportunity cost.
Why not try to save existing species before we tinker with nature?
Sam is distracting himself from Trumps victory with Jurassic Park podcasts
95% of all life that has ever existed is extinct,it’s the way things are suppose to be. People forget most of your favorite Dinosaurs like the stegosaurus etc were extinct for more millions of years before T. rex than T. rex was to our present time. Something to consider.
And if certain species are resurrected from extinction then that’s how it’s ‘supposed’ to be as well.
perhaps, but not in the sense of natural biological evolutionary progression cause and effect.