Do you think the evolution of science in the west has much to do with christianity and christian norms, which do emphasize some of those values t involved in the west? That's a very good question. I speculated in one group meeting about am there's a difference between the kind of the old testament version of christianity and the new testament version. And my conjecture was that some of the old testament norms were closer to the ones that bit matter for science....
Paul Romer makes his second appearance to discuss the failings of economics, how his mass testing plan for COVID-19 would work, what aspects of epidemiology concern him, how the FDA is slowing a better response, his ideas for reopening schools and Major League Baseball, where he agrees with Weyl’s test plan, why charter cities need a new name, what went wrong with Honduras, the development trajectory for sub-Saharan Africa, how he’d reform the World Bank, the underrated benefits of a culture of science, his heartening takeaway about human nature from his experience at Burning Man, and more.
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