Speaker unverified: belief

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…I mean, this is really … The point also applies to religion, for example. If you remove from society the software of religion, you better have a good replacement. And we’ve had a bunch of bad replacements, especially over the last few decades. Religion is one of those things I’ve struggled with a lot because I’m not religious, but I wish I was. I can now fully appreciate the enormous value having an operating system like that brings, not just at the individual level, but rather at a societal level. And it’s not clear at all what the answer is. I think we’ve tried a lot of dead ends when it came to replacements and people have been filling that void in a million different ways that seem worse than all the religions, despite their faults in a myriad of ways have been able to deliver. Yeah, religions like the cobalt code. It’s just-…

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