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David Perell - Information Superabundance Ep. 80

Good Faith Effort

CHAPTER

The Danger of Knowledge

When we talk about godlike knowledge, i think we usually mean omniscience. But it could also mean knowing things and being able to act on it from the position of a god. So perhaps the danger in knowledge is not having knowledge, but how you use that knowledge. Are you serving other people? Or are you dominating them? Are you directing them? Right? It's like trying to become like god, not in knowing everything, but in how you would use all that knowledge if you had it.

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