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EP 59: Robin Hanson (Economist) -So AI Is Not Going to Kill Us All?

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The Advantages and Disadvantages of Polymaths

You're quite an academic polymath, studying a bunch of different things. How has having this cross-disciplined approach or ability to study all these different areas? How has that impacted your capability in going deep to individual areas? We haven't touched on aliens as well, and maybe we'll have to do another episode just on that altogether. Yeah, exactly. But how is that more general purpose, kind of large learning allowed you to go deep into these specific areas so well? Well, polymaths have advantages and disadvantages. One advantage is that if a topic just requires that you understand and bring many things, then the polymath is up to that.

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