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#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is There a Difference Between Physical Reality and the Space of Belief?

Bob Greene: It seems like so much power of human civilization, so much destruction, so much creativity, creation happens in our minds. So absolutely everything does happen in the mind. You're not going to get to the moon, but you might still have a significant impact on human civilization if a lot of people believe a thing. But economic reality exists in a way in which your beliefs are rewarded when they match up with economic reality. And they're punished when they don't.

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