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Neal Stephenson, Award-winning science fiction author

Behind The Tech with Kevin Scott

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The Fixation of Belief

Do you think it's better for the world to have more of these sort of institutional things where the factor is towards reliable truth versus not? Or like that you only narrowly need it in these sort of professions where their realal consequences for believing b s? I mean, this is a, i'm a big, big fan of american philosopher named charles sanders purse, who im wrote a peace in 18 77 about how people believe things. It's called the fixation of belief. And so like, obviously it doesn't work like that always. Again, it's, it's all about incentives in social contacts. But one of the fascinating things to me about how we've tried to

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