Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
18 May 2022 Conversations with Tyler Tyler and Daniel Gross Talk Talent
“My suspicion is there’s something deeper there, but it may not be a full-blown conspiracy of the sort that would satisfy actual conspiracy theories. The ability of chaos to resemble conspiracy cannot be underrated, I would say.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 18 May 2022
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…It’s very true with start-up companies where — having invested in a lot of early-stage businesses that got big, but also worked at YC. It’s really humbling, in fact, where you’ll meet a cohort of companies at Y Combinator, and you and all of these other partners — who are very, very smart people; many of them are smarter than me — will informally vote on who you think is best, and you’re almost always wrong. It’s almost always the dark horse, and it’s almost always not who the crowd favorite is. I think there’s a humbling lesson there that you could learn in the opposite direction about the JFK assassination. You think Jack Ruby just strolled in one day and shot him? Or do you think there’s something deeper there? My suspicion is there’s something deeper there, but it may not be a full-blown conspiracy of the sort that would satisfy actual conspiracy theories. The ability of chaos to resemble conspiracy cannot be underrated, I would say. Definitely.…
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