Michael Nielsen: belief

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…Yeah. I like the flatness of it. I like the water being everywhere. Not everywhere, but most parts, at least, of Western Netherlands. I find that very attractive. There’s this stereotype I sometimes encounter. People view it as being a little orderly. I’ve heard people say it’s dull, but I think some of the most interesting experiences of my life were there. I went to a — it was like a jamboree in a field. What was it? Five days long, called Hacking at Random, in 2011, where some people from Anonymous spoke, a whole bunch of cryptographers spoke. It was really hacker culture. It was just intellectually wild in the most interesting way. It grew out of Dutch hacker culture. That spirit of the Dutch Renaissance is still visible. How would you describe the quality of those conversations? What were they like? Different than what’s in San Francisco?…

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