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01 / belief
“I think, partly, it’s for reasons that come out of Axelrod. So Axelrod’s Evolution of Cooperation really had a huge influence on how I think about the hive mind.”
02 / belief
“I got to see American Gothic just a couple of days ago. And it really did say something about America that few would have, I think, the nerve to say, in a lot of ways.”
03 / belief
“Bondholders can be a good check on government, just as voters can be a good check on the abuses of government itself. But giving them monopoly powers is far too much for any of the kind of governance systems we care about.”
04 / belief
“There’s a small number of people making this decision. And I think that the incentive for becoming informed is a greater benefit than the cost of having people who are quite uninformed on the particular topic.”
05 / belief
“I think the idea of social flexibility, openness to new experience — and that latter is correlated with IQ, weakly but positively — those are traits for nonroutine jobs especially, which probably we’re thinking about here.”
06 / belief
“I think the idea of a hive mind or collective intelligence still has the scary downside, and it should.”
07 / belief
“I think that even the insiders have a tough time figuring out what’s going on and who’s responsible, and for that reason, having clear patterns of accountability, say, within .”
08 / belief
“I think also a version of it is just the general difficulties that non-college-educated white men have had across the US, that Mormons are having their own personal version of that.”
09 / belief
“I think there’s some version of this. There is a push-pull element, too. When you’re in a network of people who are trying to do that for you, you end up trying hard to decipher their signals as well.”