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“He took over, and the old system was gone. But because the republic fought so hard and because the people really believed in it, the people had a lot more rights, and the tyrant was a lot less tyrannical because there had been that fight.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“The corridor goes around in this awkward square around that tower, because he knows that if he violates something as traditional and core to the civilization as the property rights of somebody who has owned something for a long time, there will be rebellion, civil war, dissent, and resistance.”
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Remembering moments like how Florence’s resistance all the way to the end meant that there was more liberty for the next several centuries, even under the tyrant, is what we need to remind ourselves, that partial victory is an important thing.”
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
“If we wonder who is going to fund the hospitals, whose job is it to take care of orphans, we think of the government, or maybe the church.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Really, we would say there always was and that it’s accelerating, and at this point, we realize it and articulate and describe it.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“If he had wanted to go be an intellectual power broker, the correct move is to run off to Rome and say, “I will give up the chance to go home the way Dante did, but I will be a Florentine in exile, and I will write important things.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think you should discuss the fact that the Medici are the bankers for the papacy.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Maybe some of those things work, but it’s at the same time frustrating but also funny and interesting that historically nobody has a good track record of being able to say, “I will do this thing so that this huge unanticipated change in history will go my way, or according to my values.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I support my country more than any particular regime or group that might be in power. Whatever is in power in my city, I will be faithful to it.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think probably the number executed for atheism would be about 100. There are 12 total trials of scientists about science.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“You need to buy it in a big lot so that it matches, because people don’t want the paper to suddenly be a different color within their book.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“My favorite example of this kind of distribution and diffusion taking longer than you would think for a very fundamental technology—well, this is now my favorite example, so my second favorite example—is oil.”
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Just say, “This is what we like, and if you do something we don’t like, we’ll punish you,” which is how censorship in China works, for example.”
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
“I think there’s an interesting parallel to today, not to be too on the nose, but sometimes people debate the odds that America becomes a Putinist kind of country within a couple of decades.”
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Instead of feeling that reading about good men will make us good, we read about wise choices, and we imitate those choices.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“Trains and bicycles come in, and we get feminism because it’s easier for people, especially women, to move freely and independently.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“ici effectively controlled this lotteried system, because they guaranteed that the plurality, in a situation that doesn’t have a majority, will always be them.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“The newspaper is invented to cope with the pamphlet because you don’t know whether to trust the scandalous tale of the doctor from Padua and how he murdered his wife.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“This is based on an assumption that education is very much like osmosis, that if you’re exposed to something, you’ll imitate it. And the uptake of this is strong because Italy is also full of upstart rulers who just seized power five minutes ago by having a coup in their state and have no legitimacy and no right to be ruling what they’re ruling and are resented by their people.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast
“” That’s the 1560s, 1580s, 160 years after Lucretius comes back, because it takes generations of work to build the libraries, to have the libraries, to use the libraries. So when we get to 1600, which is almost exactly 200 years after this begins, a little bit more, we’ve had time to say, “Let’s build the libraries, have the libraries, use the libraries, or realize we failed in how we use the libraries, and use the libraries differently.”
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- Dwarkesh Podcast