Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedNat Friedman: belief
22 Mar 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Nat Friedman (Github CEO) — Reading ancient scrolls, open source, & AI
“All the little bits that you have to get right to do a thing and have it work and I hope we got all of them. So I think that's part of it – just not believing that the world is efficient and then just allowing your enthusiasm to cause you to commit to something that turns out to be a lot of work and really hard.”
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- Nat Friedman
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- 22 Mar 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…The last mile is often the hardest. Well it turned out to be fractal anyway. All the little bits that you have to get right to do a thing and have it work and I hope we got all of them. So I think that's part of it – just not believing that the world is efficient and then just allowing your enthusiasm to cause you to commit to something that turns out to be a lot of work and really hard. And then you just are stubborn and don't want to fail so you keep at it. I think that's it. The efficiency point, do you think that's particularly true just of things like California YIMBY or this, where there isn't a direct monetary incentive or...…
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