Tyler Cowen: belief

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…You’ve offered to referee and you’ve talked to philanthropists. Is it just about somehow encouraging or subsidizing the creation of that literature? What is the binding constraint there? I genuinely don’t understand it. I suspect some of the key figures just don’t want that kind of scrutiny. I’m not sure the peer reviewing would be that kind to their ideas. Now, they are sincere in their belief, so on one level, they think it will come out fine. At some other level, I think their lack of trust in the method is reflecting a kind of insecurity about the arguments. Yes. All right. Next question from Virat: “In a future world where Neuralink-type devices can instantly upload data to our mind and impart us with world’s knowledge, what is valuable, the experience of getting to know or the knowing itself, the journey or the destination? Is it even valuable? What’s after ‘we know all’?” They clarify that this is assuming that Neuralink devices are much more advanced than they are now, that it can literally implant the world’s knowledge in your brain.…

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