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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Love Is the Drug

I really love your idea that the simulation, like one way to live life is to kind of explore these other worlds and borrow from them wisdom. You almost like stitch together your life with these kind of pieces from literature. The highly educated person is constantly struck by illusion. Everything is an illusion to something that one has read. That's what the real metaverse is. It's the imaginary world that we enter when we read, empathize and then recognize in our daily lives some scrap of the shared experience that the literature gives us.

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