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#113 – Manolis Kellis: Human Genome and Evolutionary Dynamics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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The Secret to Creativity Is Language

The ambiguity of language perhaps might be the secret to creativity. The amount of information that I'm condensing into a small number of words is a huge funnel, which then you receive and you expand into a huge number of thoughts from that small funnel. In many ways, engineers would love to have the whole information transfer. They would take the whole set of neurons and throw them away. This might actually not be better because in your misinterpretation of every word that I'm saying, you are creating new interpretation that might actually be way better than what I meant in the first place.

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