Dwarkesh Patel: observation

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…By far the most common thing is there’s always some creative artifact. Sometimes it’s a class. Sometimes it’s engagement with a group of people who are working on some collective creative artifact together. You might not even be aware of it, but you’re acting as an input to their creative ends in some way. Sometimes it’s an essay or a book or whatever. It’s one of the reasons why I often quite enjoy doing podcasts. I said yes to come here partially because I know you ask unusually demanding questions. That’s an attempt to get this sort of perspective from a different kind of a forcing function. Trying to pick the most demanding creative context. For this interview, I went through three lectures of the Susskind special relativity book. The problem is that there’s almost no practice problems in it. So I hired a physicist friend. I haven’t done it yet, but for every lecture I want a bunch of practice problems to go through, and I’m planning on being appropriately humbled. How do you make it as jugular as possible? The higher you can raise the stakes, the better.…

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