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Venkatesh Rao — The Art of Gig (EP.152)

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The Essence of Narrative Rationality

The physicist Arthur Eddington was able to guesstimate how far bits of paper drifted due to the shockwave. Dyson came up with wonderful ideas for nuclear propulsion and Dyson spheres for like mining energy from the sun, all these really wild ideas based on Fermi estimation. And I think of this sort of thing as the essence of narrative rationality, meaning making and being basically a courageous thinker.

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