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27 Dec 2025 Machine Learning Street Talk The 3 Laws of Knowledge [César Hidalgo]
“Like there there is this statistic I think in The United States, if you count Nobel Prize winners after the year 19 seventies, 70% of them, you know, were born outside of the country or or or they migrated at some point in their lives.”
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- César Hidalgo
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- 27 Dec 2025
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- Machine Learning Street Talk
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…Yeah. And then actually, you spoke a lot about migration in general. First of all, migrants they have a lot of choice about where they can go because you started the book talking about you know NEOM in Saudi Arabia and there was a Yachai. Yachai, exactly. And these places that were designed to be kind of epistemic centres where they can do lots of innovation and they can invent lots of things. And actually, it didn't really work because it didn't respect the the outer organism. They were almost so disconnected that no migrants would want to go there and it can't actually be self sustaining in terms of the creation of new knowledge. The people that have a choice, you know, they tend to be quite strategic about how they exercise those choices, you know. There's a lot of statistics about the role of migrants in innovation and the fact that people that are highly creative or highly innovative tend to be migrants. Like there there is this statistic I think in The United States, if you count Nobel Prize winners after the year 19 seventies, 70% of them, you know, were born outside of the country or or or they migrated at some point in their lives. There's it's something like that. Yeah. 60%.…
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