Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedPatrick McKenzie: belief
24 Jul 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast Patrick McKenzie — Money laundering, big tech censorship, SBF & Japan
“The Wall Street Journal had never been wrong in my experience as a 19-year-old who knew nothing about anything.”
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- Speaker
- Patrick McKenzie
- Attribution
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 24 Jul 2024
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…If I remember correctly, you went to Japan because you thought that after the dot-com boom, the demand for programmers alone would diminish and a combination of skills would be required. You weren't the only one who thought this way. Yes, and The Wall Street Journal said the same thing. The Wall Street Journal had never been wrong in my experience as a 19-year-old who knew nothing about anything. Separate from the object-level predictions you might have gotten wrong about the software industry, what was a meta-level mistake you made? How would we characterize that?…
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