72: A Self-Help Book for Societies, with Tim Urban
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The Ultimate Golem Poison
Roxanne Jones: First principle seems like the ultimate golem poison. You talk in the book about how golems form from echo chambers. And it seems to me that first principle thinking is like a righteous cancer in the body of a golem. Yes, you are a cancer to an organism whose lifeblood is conformity. Disagreement is that smiled upon? If it is, then I think you and your friends are in genie mode and that's good.
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