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EP 70: Tim Urban (Author, "Wait But Why") on Wokeness, AI Girlfriends and Humans Living to 150 Years Old

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The Power of Rational Thinking

I think he's like five standard deviations above the mean at this particular quality which is ability to override so many of these weird human irrationality traits that we have. We just have a certain things areas where we have really struggle being rational and it's a superpower if you can actually be rational in those. Another classic example is Steve Jobs apple right the human mind there says your computer company you don't know how to make phones okay right there don't do it secondly there's all these companies that have been doing this forever obviously your idea of no keyboard if it were a good idea they would have done it a long time ago. That's why most computer companies stay out of the phone industry because

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