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Are you working on the most important problem in your field? Why not? (with Rohit Krishnan)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Reductionism
Religion is a wonderful one because it allows you to kind of see the world as a linked sequence of cause and effect that actually has either purposeful evolution towards something good or at least provides a story for your life. In terms of sort of specific ones, I see reductionism as extremely popular, which I perhaps as I say it think might be what kind of my model grew up fighting a little bit against. And outside of physics, even in physics in a lot of different places, thermodynamics being one example or emergent phenomena generally being another,. We have difficulty dealing with them through reductionist methods.
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