This interview is a couple of years old, on a tiny channel. The host is not the greatest, but MK says many interesting things, which I haven’t seen him say or elaborate on elsewhere, and I’ve seen him speak on many channels, his own, Peter Attia and so on.
Interestingly, some remarks are in my view controversial, like about caloric restriction. Anyhow I think the interview is worth the time investment.
Lowell Matt discussion.pdf (374.0 KB)
Update: The following is a test to compare formats
# Learning with Lowell 187 - Dr. Ma.md.pdf (185.5 KB)
I didn’t want to spend an hour and a half watching this podcast so I had an AI generate a summary from the transcript. I thought I should share it here.
Here is a summary of the “Longevity Expert on Unlocking Rapamycin & Life Extension - Matt Kaeberlein” podcast episode in bullet points:
This is a great example of using modern tools to optimize information and data aquisition. I personally listen to these interviews while doing something else - usually while exercising, jogging, food prep and the like, so I don’t feel like I’m really losing much in the way of time - it’s rare for me to sit down and concentrate exclusively on a yt video.
However there is definitely a use scenario for transcripts, as provided by @amuser. Sometimes you may want to read quietly, or concentrate on the text, or skip around more easily etc., so a pdf, like the one provided by amuser is a great resource.
I’m much more ambivalent about the AI summary (it’s not really a transcript at all), because the software determines what is worth including and what not. The summary here is a great example of the limitations of this tool, one being an unavoidable and understandable limitations inherent in the nature of summaries - necessarily some nuance and detail will be lost, can’t be helped. You could just read the Cliff Notes, instead of novels, and many do in college😁. You can read the movie summaries on wikipedia instead of investing the time to watch a movie. But that’s the nature of the beast.
A far bigger limitation is that no AI will be able to unerringly pick just the parts of interest to you, rather than leaving those parts out. For example, I was quite interested in what MK had to say about IGF-1 and its interplay with mTOR, muscle growth, rapamycin and longevity - nothing of that was mentioned in this AI summary as posted by @Curtis_Hibbs. To me, that’s a giant fail. Of what use is this summary to me, when the interesting parts are precisely the unusual or mentioned in passing remarks, sprinkled throughout the interview, the very reason I posted this interview in the first place. It completely misses the point. I didn’t post it for the bog standard parts about lifestyle that was exactly the focus of low intelligence artificial intelligence. It’s like it selected all the parts of no value, and omitted all the parts of interest, lol. I posted this for the already knowledgable viewer who might be interested in catching the nuances.
This is not to say that AI summaries are not useful in many contexts, including saving time on yt videos, just that it’s a tricky tool with some notable limitations, and you never know what you are getting, it’s a roll of the dice whether what interests you is going to be included.
Bottom line, in this case, I feel like the pdf was a great addition, the AI summary not so much. But of course, YMMV.
It centers around Grok. I tried a couple of the other AI’s and they failed to produce usable output. Maybe I will post instructions later.