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Steve Hsu: How We Learned, Then Forgot, About Human Intelligence

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The Power Law Distribution of Contributions to Human Advancement

During the cold war and this is also a different very cultural very different time culturally like you know if you watch madman or something you can see it yeah there was a lot more tolerance of the irascible politically incorrect genius guy. Now it's much more of a problem like that guy is going to be a big issue because he has Tourette's like syndrome and blurts out politically incorrect things every now and then his job will get canceled. There's just no understanding that the kind of people are not replaceableYeah so that's a good point i agree with that but people don't understand the power law distribution of human contributions even if they did I think many people would still fire them

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