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28 Sept 2022 Dwarkesh Podcast Tyler Cowen - Talent, Collapse, & Pessimism of Sex
“If you focus more on learning about cultures, history, you're not going to come up with some list as the way to approach that.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 28 Sept 2022
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…No. 80,000 hours has a list, “here's the things you should consider doing with your career,” That’s not the right way to think about it. You want to sit down with the person, understand the entire context, see what they could do, see if there's a way you could or should bend up the curve. But a list now… that's a little to EA static maximization for me. If you focus more on learning about cultures, history, you're not going to come up with some list as the way to approach that. What are culture and history going to show you?…
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