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333. Kevin Kelly — ChatGPT, OpenAI, and Excellent Advice for Living

The Michael Shermer Show

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How to Transcend the Influence of Your Mentors

"To transcend the influence of your heroes, copy them shamelessly like a student until you get them out of your system. That is the way of all master," he says. "You can't copy your mentor teacher too closely because they're locked in their own worldview or paradigm or methodology." He adds that learning probability and statistics is far more useful than algebra and calculus.

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