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Adam Brown: preference

26 Dec 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT

“I enjoy the experience of meeting people and the weird episodic sense of which, just, you never know what's going to happen. I think I have a very high tolerance for ambiguity, and I enjoy that.”

— Adam Brown

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Adam Brown
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preference
Recorded
26 Dec 2024
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

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…And what was your motivation for that? Were you just in need of a car or what was going on? No, I enjoy meeting people. I enjoy the experience of meeting people and the weird episodic sense of which, just, you never know what's going to happen. I think I have a very high tolerance for ambiguity, and I enjoy that. What was the percentage of, "We just had a normal conversation, they went in the general direction I was going, and that was that," versus, "I've got a crazy story to tell about X incident"? What percentage is each?…

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