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

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Ripple Effect of Fear in Science, Engineering and Technology

"There is a kind of ripple effect of fear within that space into science and engineering and technology," he says. "It just has a nature of fear where you're not just saying stupid stuff as a young 20 year old." The fear starts in history or on some course that covers society, the fear ripples out to other areas such as computer science. On a university campus, everything is contagious from a novel coronavirus to the behaviors that are occurring in the English department.

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