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Byrne Hobart - FTX, Drugs, Twitter, Taiwan, & Monasticism

Dwarkesh Podcast

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I Think It's Important to Have a Man of Ideas in Charge of Important Institutions

Leaders who take ideas seriously don't necessarily have a great track record right like Stalin apparently had a book of like 20,000 books. You want the nerds to debate things and then you want someone who is not quite that smart not really into plane wars um to actually make the final callYeah yeah no that's really good point i mean forget about Jefferson think of like if thomas pain was made present in the united states that would be very bad news for America. It's been a good year for reading about power tripping people uh there's a recent Napoleon biography that i'm also in the middle ofUm it does point out that technically France was actually declared Napoleon had more countries declared war

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