Lex Fridman: preference

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…It scares the people. I’ll make the open challenge. You are going to scare them. No. Professor Morris- Open challenge. … words are in print. I wrote 50 pages analyzing all of your work. I quote, some will say cherry-pick but I think, accurately quote you. Here’s a simple challenge. Answer me in print. Answer what I wrote and show where I’m making things up. Answer me in print- I’m not familiar. I’m sorry, but I’m not familiar with what you wrote. That’s no problem. You’re a busy man, you’re an important historian. You don’t have to know everything that’s in print, especially by modest publishers. But now you know, and so here’s the public challenge. You answer and show where I cherry-picked, where I misrepresented- Send me the article, I will- Fine, I will, and then we can have a civil scholarly discussion and- I’m not sure we will agree, even if I- We don’t have to agree. It’s for the reader to decide, looking at both sides, where this truth stands. Norman, and if I may ask, it’s good to discuss ideas that are in the air now as opposed to citing literature that was written in the past as much as possible, because of the listeners were not familiar with the literature. So whatever was written, just express it, condense the key idea, and then we can debate the ideas or discuss the ideas. No, there are two aspects. There’s this public debate, but there’s also written words.…

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