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Published · transcript-backedBrett Harrison: belief
13 Mar 2023 Dwarkesh Podcast Brett Harrison — FTX US former president speaks out
“I think that people in my circles were quicker to take action in the face of knowing about COVID There are a lot of people who kind of stuck around in cities and their existing particular situations not knowing kind of where this was going to head long term.”
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- Brett Harrison
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- 13 Mar 2023
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Were your circles or people in finance earlier to recognize the dangers of COVID. That's a good question. I think that people in my circles were quicker to take action in the face of knowing about COVID There are a lot of people who kind of stuck around in cities and their existing particular situations not knowing kind of where this was going to head long term. And I think if you have the fortune of having the financial flexibility to be able to do something like this, a lot of the people in kind of financial circles kind of immediately recognize, okay, there's this big risk. This unknown and I don't want to. Get out of or selected against in terms of being able to get out of the locus of bad pandemic activity. So people immediately were fleeing cities, I think, faster than other people. That seems to point in the opposite direction of them not being able to estimate and deal with geopolitical risk.…
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