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Michael Nielsen

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02 / evaluation

Young people flood in because you can be twenty-one and make major breakthroughs rather than having to spend twenty-five years mastering everything that’s been done before.

“Young people flood in because you can be twenty-one and make major breakthroughs rather than having to spend twenty-five years mastering everything that’s been done before.”
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Michael Nielsen
Publisher
Dwarkesh Podcast

03 / evaluation

I think he didn’t really believe in them, or actually understand just how difficult they are to solve, how difficult it is to supply public goods and these kinds of things.

“I think he didn’t really believe in them, or actually understand just how difficult they are to solve, how difficult it is to supply public goods and these kinds of things.”
Speaker
Michael Nielsen
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

04 / evaluation

They don’t suffer like large organizations that have all kinds of bloat and all kinds of problems. So many of those problems are gone away there, partially because when you’re on a boat, it’s not so easy to empire build, like there are real reasons to trim fat.

“They don’t suffer like large organizations that have all kinds of bloat and all kinds of problems. So many of those problems are gone away there, partially because when you’re on a boat, it’s not so easy to empire build, like there are real reasons to trim fat.”
Speaker
Michael Nielsen
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

05 / evaluation

I still don’t find that compelling, I think, because we’ve always known that there seemed likely to be fairly contingent facts about the universe.

“I still don’t find that compelling, I think, because we’ve always known that there seemed likely to be fairly contingent facts about the universe.”
Speaker
Michael Nielsen
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler

06 / evaluation

Yes, you’re right again, it’s very attractive for a few years, but over 50 or 60 years, it’s terrible. I think that’s certainly part of the issue with quantum gravity.

“Yes, you’re right again, it’s very attractive for a few years, but over 50 or 60 years, it’s terrible. I think that’s certainly part of the issue with quantum gravity.”
Speaker
Michael Nielsen
Publisher
Conversations with Tyler
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