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Michael Gibson - The Thiel Fellowship, Rationalism, and Stagnation

From the New World

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The Parable of Dr. John and Fat Tony

The parable of dr. John and Fat Tony is basically that A man in a bar asks them he flips a coin 50 times and it's heads every single time. And so the point is that there are certain assumptions that get baked into you if you go through these kind of formalized systems. If you never question those assumptions Then you'll just end up doing things that are just like plain stupid to a lot of normal people Yeah, I think You know another part of this is just the importance of I Guess accumulated wisdom  I put it once that tradition is the ability to learn from millions of others in the past.

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