Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedMichael Lewis: belief
15 Dec 2025 Acquired 10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis)
“Language is a lossy compression of thought, but I think the reverse is also true for some people.”
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- Speaker
- Michael Lewis
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 15 Dec 2025
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- Acquired
Transcript context
…And you're not doing it intentionally. Language is a lossy compression of thought. Yeah, true. That's an interesting observation. Language is a lossy compression of thought, but I think the reverse is also true for some people. Uncompressing information. It's so funny when you and I are communicating, I had a thought. I compressed it into a very narrow bandwidth thing of speech. I told it to you, you uncompressed it into your brain. It might actually mean a pretty different thing to you than it means to me.…
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