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15 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
“One of my favorite handles when I join a new computer system is “Quixotic” because if it’s all determinism, maybe we should act as if it’s not, right?”
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- Reid Hoffman
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- 15 Jan 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Quantum mechanics — maybe it’s just the micro scale, but Einsteinian general relativity implies the universe is this frozen four-dimensional block of space-time, and there it is. Voila. What I would say is that we certainly don’t know enough to be certain that determinism is true. That was part of the reason, the quantum mechanics question. And maybe this is actually one of the ways that I tend to think is how we evolve our culture. One of my favorite handles when I join a new computer system is “Quixotic” because if it’s all determinism, maybe we should act as if it’s not, right? Even if it is. [laughs] Of course, that’s the Straussian take.…
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