Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedReid Hoffman: uncertainty
15 Jan 2020 Conversations with Tyler Reid Hoffman on Systems, Levers, and Quixotic Quests
“I guess what I would say is, I am acting like it is not all determinism, but I don’t know if that’s actually the fact.”
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- Reid Hoffman
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- uncertainty
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- 15 Jan 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Of course, that’s the Straussian take. Yes, right. But the question is, if we’re acting as if it’s not, do we have any possibility of creating a system in which it’s not all deterministic? And should you remain optimistic about that? Or is that just a version of self-deception? And is this an area where self-deception is intelligent, where usually self-deception is thought not to be? I guess what I would say is, I am acting like it is not all determinism, but I don’t know if that’s actually the fact. What did you think of Peter in that class? How was it?…
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