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The Foresight Institute Podcast

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The Importance of Hidden Motives in the Intellectual World

The contrast between the kind of innovations people say they're interested in, and the kinds they actually are willing to put some energy and try is a data point about how the world isn't what it seems. The things that stayed out most to me,  the things that I made a bet early on about it deserved more attention than it turned out the world gave it more attention. So prediction markets are an example of that, where the world was initially pretty skeptical,. And then I happened to start talking about them, or really, you were just before lots of other people did, and they got registered. Another area is, say, the Great Filter. That phrase took off a codd

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