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#1075 Dwarkesh Patel On Why The Future Will Be Wild

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How Much of Your Day Are You Not Consuming the Input of Other Minds?

Do you think that many of the scientists, inventors and kind of innovators of the past, they had just many distractions? They didn't have super computers in their pockets, but they had other things that served as distractions. I also wonder how much of the break through that we've seen in math, science, heart technology in prior years and decades, even centuries, comes from the sheer number of people focused on those problems. And so it's hard to compare and contrast, like, which one is likea better for humanity, right? A, cause they are different things. But there's definitely something to the fact that a tion of our smartest people, or the people who would

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