Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedDwarkesh Patel: belief
7 Apr 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Michael Nielsen – How science actually progresses
“If I had allocated more time, especially after the interview, to write up 2,000 words on everything I learned and how it connects to other things I know.”
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- Dwarkesh Patel
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- belief
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- 7 Apr 2026
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
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…Exactly. Ada Palmer. Wonderful to talk to, incredibly interesting. But for you personally, what changed? There are some things I learned. If I had allocated more time, especially after the interview, to write up 2,000 words on everything I learned and how it connects to other things I know. Maybe that’s a thing worth doing, spreading out the episodes more and spending more time afterwards consolidating. I would pay infinite amounts of money if there was somebody who was really good at coming up with the curriculum, the practice problems you need to do, and the exercise you need to do after the interview to clamp what you have learned. Have you tried doing that with somebody?…
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