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26 transcript-backed records
01 / belief
“I think Poincaré gets much closer later on to realizing that this is the time that’s registered by clocks.”
02 / belief
“I think the last public statement he made was a year or two before he died, and he basically still believed it at that point.”
03 / belief
“Michelson-Morley is the famous result often presented as this experiment that was done in the 1880s that helped Einstein come up with the special theory of relativity a little bit later, changing the way we think about space and time and our fundamental conception of those things.”
04 / belief
“I’m certainly interested in the fact that new types of progress keep becoming possible. But I think even there, there does still seem to be some phenomenon of diminishing returns.”
05 / belief
“What fraction uses linear representations versus a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional representation? I think the answers to these questions are just not at all obvious.”
06 / belief
“I think that’s a consequence of the architecture of attention. At any given time, there’s always a most successful thing.”
07 / belief
“An example that I think is very interesting is the LHC, where it’s just this immensely complicated object.”
08 / belief
“What was the reason? I suspect in many cases that’s actually more informative than anything else.”
09 / belief
“If I think about things like — Ron Sexsmith, I think his name is — a composer in Toronto, has made these musical pieces based on the different periods in the solar system.”
10 / belief
“I think so much money is going in, and it’s going in on the basis of brand to some extent.”
11 / belief
“I think seeing so many people who are doing very worthwhile things which have no or very little institutional chance of support, being amplified — that I care about a great deal, and it seems like EV is one of the places that is doing that the best.”
12 / belief
“I think over the long term, the most important of those was, for many years I would have said Illich.”
13 / belief
“I think getting off planet Earth and establishing a civilization elsewhere is very, very important.”
14 / belief
“I’ve heard people say it’s dull, but I think some of the most interesting experiences of my life were there.”
15 / belief
“Famously, what was it, he asked for $3,000 a year when he moved to the IAS, and they gave him $15,000. I think he wasn’t very good at negotiating.”
16 / belief
“” I think that people who are good at identifying people who are able to expand boundaries like that — they need to have some sense of that edge.”
17 / belief
“Casey Handmer has a nice book, which I think is way too optimistic in many of its assumptions, but he’s got the right scale.”
18 / belief
“Good reason to do so. I think I’m inclined to think, and there’s always this interesting balance.”
19 / belief
“An interesting, unsuspected way — that would be terrific and I think is not completely out of the question, but it probably doesn’t affect anything about consciousness or anything like that.”
20 / belief
“You’re an economist. I’m a romantic, I think. [laughter] Might be the difference.”
21 / belief
“I think from the point of view of the authors, it really actually doesn’t make that much sense.”
22 / belief
“If you look at, say, the culture around Jupyter Notebooks in machine learning, I think having those very openly available and widely available really has driven a lot of progress.”
23 / belief
“You denied saying this, but somebody once said to me that travel is the only education, and it’s really stayed with me as expressing some deep truth. I think mostly just the world is so incredibly deep.”
24 / belief
“The way in which people work will change in response — the Jupyter Notebook example I gave is, I think, a good example of that.”
25 / belief
“I think my appreciation for God has gone way up. I appreciate the construction of the religions far more than I did.”
26 / belief
“I’m just saying that’s a potential outcome — I think quite a plausible potential outcome.”