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Tim Urban on the path to AGI and trends in tech history | E1779

This Week in Startups

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The Joker's Legacy

I feel like watching authoritarians around the world continue to shoot themselves in the foot. There is something going on where people feel they've been manipulated by the system and lied to. We take for granted how much our society's stability is based on shared trust in truth making institutions such as academia, statistics and FBI. And then the trust that what the government says is true.

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