Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
21 May 2025 Conversations with Tyler Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces
“I think the sweet ones in other areas — they’re often the most arrogant. It’s a kind of front.”
Source trail
Everything needed to verify it.
- Speaker
- Tyler Cowen
- Attribution
- Verified speaker
- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 21 May 2025
- Publisher
- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…I think that changes person to person. I know some neurosurgeons who are quite talented, and they are humble, sweet. They don’t appear to be arrogant in other aspects of their life. I know others who are different. I really think that there’s no stereotype for that. I think the sweet ones in other areas — they’re often the most arrogant. It’s a kind of front. I would more likely suspect them of extreme arrogance than the apparently arrogant individuals. All right, now you’re two steps away. You’re double-thinking it. I don’t know. It’s hard to know.…
Stored transcript either side of the excerpt. The highlighted words are the published quote; the surrounding text is unedited source, never generated.