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Randomly selected quotes from Zuck's very, very long interview

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Devin Coldewey
Sun, August 28, 2022, 12:31 AM·9 min read

Life is too short to listen to a 3-hour conversation between successful normal human Mark Zuckerberg and the farcically neutral Joe Rogan, so I'm taking a different tack: scrolling very fast through an extremely long transcript and picking nuggets more or less at random. Here's what Zuckerberg thinks about various things.

(These quotes have been very lightly edited for clarity.)

Zuckerberg on symmetry

Part of what's a little trippy about it is that in some ways, some of these experiences, I think, feel more realistic than for example having a Zoom call, right, where you can actually see the person's face. Because I mean, the way that our memory works, it's like, it's very special. Right? So, you know, when I when I leave here today, I'll remember that you were across from me, and there's a symmetry, right, it's like, you're across from me. So that means I'm across from you. We have a shared memory of kind of the space, of the place.

I guess it doesn't quite work because the headphones but normally, you know, if I, if you talk it's coming from that direction, and spatial audio and kind of directional building a spatial model of things is how we make memories. So you take something like Zoom, and it just completely blows it up. Because now it's every meeting that you have looks the same, right? There's no symmetry, right? So if you're in the top left of my, of my box, square, that doesn't mean that I'm in the same place for you. So we actually we don't have any kind of shared spatial sense of that.

While I appreciate Zuckerberg's attempt at an aesthetic (in its broader sense) argument regarding the sympathetic nature of forming shared memories, I feel that the interactions he's describing are actually highly asymmetric in real life, and Zoom in fact creates a sort of super-symmetry contained in the flat display that doesn't reflect the differences we would feel. If you and I are in the same room, what we see and hear from each other is really quite different and we may remember it very differently.

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