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Byrne Hobart - Optionality, Stagnation, and Secret Societies
Dwarkesh Podcast
How Many Secret Societies Do You Think There Are?
How many secret societies do you think there are that have assets in excess of one billion dollars? Well, that's a tough question. I mean, i wouldn't be surprised if there were organizations that might have started out trying to be a secret society and then ended up being run by people just in it for the money. Modern universities as having maybe evolved from something closer to a secret society. It's hard to keep secret societies alive for a long time. You can actually end up with your secret society failing because it recruited people who thougt they were the ight people for it,. If thy turnedou to be thewrong people for it.
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