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Published · transcript-backedPaul Graham: uncertainty
9 Aug 2023 Conversations with Tyler Paul Graham on Ambition, Art, and Evaluating Talent
“Maybe, maybe. I don’t know. Oh, 2,000 years is a long time, or even 1,700 years.”
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- Paul Graham
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- uncertainty
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- 9 Aug 2023
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Did Rome have to fall? Or can you imagine a path where Rome has an industrial revolution, and we save ourselves 700 or however many centuries of time? Like you need the fragmentation to get the competition for Britain to become significant? Maybe, maybe. I don’t know. Oh, 2,000 years is a long time, or even 1,700 years. Actually, Roman was half decent — Because China never falls.…
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