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Experts vs. Elites (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

CHAPTER

The Way to Be a Public Intellectual

To be a public intellectual is to have moved in the direction of being an advisor. So like that would be like you, by contrast with many other academics. Right. Or at least the role I aspire to which I may not successfully inhabit. But yes. Well, I think people read you. I think policy people read some do right. Sure. But more than it be more than a comedian academic. Right. And he's watching Brady and trying to learn how could I be Brady? Right. The way to be Brady is to take more into account. That is to think more about what it would be to fit yourself into a hierarchy rather than just making true claims about the way things

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