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Scott Young - Ultralearning

Dwarkesh Podcast

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What Is the Cutting Edge of Research?

"I think that one of the key things there would be to specialize. Top level researches, why they specialize is because it's much easier to get a break through" "If you have a really, really high level of specialization in a field, then you probably are kind of at the cutting edge for techniques and stuff," he says. 'The fact that everyone in the world is also kind of pursuing some sort of strategy can sometimes mean that doing something that's sort of objectively sub optimal, but is kind of a nobody does'

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