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#315 – Magnus Carlsen: Greatest Chess Player of All Time
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Fun Maximizer in All Walks of Life
I think forbidding certain things kind of makes them more fun. Oppressive regimes has always been kind of good for comedy, you know? I heard supposedly like in the Soviet Union, I don't know about fun, but supposedly comedy like at least underground it thrived. There's a dark humor that sort of the cruelty, the absurdity of life really really brings out the humor amongst the populace plus vodka on top of that. And so emerges the fun maximizer in all walks of life, like in chess, in poker and everything.
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