Evidence receipt / uncertainty
Published · transcript-backedDwarkesh Patel: uncertainty
14 Sept 2022 Dwarkesh Podcast Charles C. Mann - Americas Before Columbus & Scientific Wizardry
“I don't know too much about it, but I hear that the Silk Road stuff they're doing is not especially economically wise.”
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- Dwarkesh Patel
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- uncertainty
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- 14 Sept 2022
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…as you feel like you have a state together, you want to index other things. You see that over and over again, all over the world. So that's part of it. All those things, I think, contributed to this. Outright lying, this delusion, other various delusions, plus hubris. It seems that colonial envy has today probably spread to China. I don't know too much about it, but I hear that the Silk Road stuff they're doing is not especially economically wise. Is this kind of like when you have the impulse where if you're a nation trying to rise, you have that “I gotta go here, I gotta go over there–– Yeah and “Show what a big guy I am. Yeah,––…
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