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26 Dec 2024 Dwarkesh Podcast Adam Brown — Bubble universes, space elevators, & AdS/CFT
“I've done Oxford to Morocco, when I moved from Princeton out to Stanford, I hitchhiked a bunch of other times, down to New Orleans, various other places. I think probably the biggest tip for hitchhiking is to stand in a good place.”
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- 26 Dec 2024
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…All right, Adam, what are your tips for hitchhiking? Oh, good question. So I hitchhiked a bunch around America and Europe. I've done Oxford to Morocco, when I moved from Princeton out to Stanford, I hitchhiked a bunch of other times, down to New Orleans, various other places. I think probably the biggest tip for hitchhiking is to stand in a good place. Some counterparty modeling. Imagine the person who's picking you up. They need time to see you, to evaluate you and to decide they're going to pick you up and then to safely stop. And that all needs to happen. So stand somewhere where people can see you, possibly at a stoplight, and where there's a place for them to safely pull over. How do you model the motivations of people who pick you up? What are they getting out of this?…
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