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#1075 Dwarkesh Patel On Why The Future Will Be Wild

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You Can Actually Know Everything, Right?

People have this idea that, oh, knowledge is so specialized. But if you read the right book every once, every week or something, for the rest of your life, you could know 80% about every single field in the world. Why is it important to know everything? I think the returns to knowing more things have increased over time. And there's not just a difference between quanta mechanics and darvenin synthesis. You can learn about these fundamental ideas without memorizing trivial details. If you are able to synthesize lawss information and put it together, you can have like a huge brand as a content creator. The ilanus is a great example of this. This guy

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