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#138 – Yaron Brook: Ayn Rand and the Philosophy of Objectivism
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Beauty of Curiosity in the Scientific Field
People forget the beauty of their curiosity. That youthful joy of everything is possible and we can understand it with the tools of our mind. To get published, you have to be conventional. You have to do what everybody else does. And then there's the tenure process of seven years where they put you through this torture to write papers that fit into a certain mold. By the time you're done, you're in your mid-30s and you've done nothing. You discovered nothing. You're all in this minutiae in this stuff and it's destructive. It's worth pausing on. There's dismissal. Yes. Ayn Rand's ideas at the end of the day all
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