What Michael Nielsen Thinks About Basically Everything
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How to Encourage People to Do Unusual Things
I think it's pretty rare that people are so independent that they do their weird thing entirely on their own. It seems to be more common that they do very unusual things with the support of a small group around them. The sewer lining of the Bay Area housing crisis has been, I think, the emergence of all these group houses which often provide some encouragement for people to do unusual things. You can be a very disagreeable scientist and just work in your basement. And someday. Yeah, speaking of disagreeableness, I'm no John Stuart Mill scholar, very vague understanding of his work. But my understanding of on liberty, I think there's a chapter or segment where it talks about experiments
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