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#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Intergenerational Character of Universities
There's something about the youthful energy of like young minds that inspire some of the world experts to do some of the best work of their lives. The human brain we know is at its most dynamic when people are pretty young. So it's clear that universities are incredibly powerful intellectual force multipliers, and our history without them would look very different. We want to make sure that we don't fall into that German pit where high levels of technical expertise are decoupled from a free society.
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