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You are the average of the five people around you Key takeaways: - Creative success not only depends on individual effort but also on one's social network - One becomes the average of the five people they spend the most time with Transcript: Speaker 1 Yeah, so this was my fourth topic, which you cruelly, you can cut my screen. Speaker 3 I know I feel like we totally lost track of like, how do we country and then you just started like going depth first as opposed to like actually tackling the actual... Speaker 2 Look, I will come back next to the next statement and biology go eight hours, okay? So I hope Mark went to the bathroom before this because we are going to meet the record like, art de yo, we will go both red and depth first. Eight hours and one minute. All right, it's been a new challenge. Speaker 1 So, yeah, look, this is gonna be the thing I was gonna say. Like, look, there's a part of being creative that is individual effort and is individual effort to learn and is individual effort to try to actually create something. And then there's a big part of it. It's like, what is your personal social network? Like, who are your friends? And there's an old adage that is absolutely true, which is basically any individual over time, you basically become the average of the five people you spend the most time with. You know, you zero in, you adapt. And it's a fundamental human instinct because everybody, you know, very few people can go through life alone. You need some sort of support network. Your support network has a value system and they have things they care about and things they're interested in and you will tend to care about and be more interested in those things. And if they, if you don't have anybody around you who shares your interests, right, or has the same drives that you do, you'll have a very hard time sustaining it.

Marc Andreessen on Elon Musk, Good Startup Ideas, How to Have the Courage to Think Independently and Finding a Co-Founder

The Aarthi and Sriram Show

Episode AI notes 1. Epistemology, even in popular discourse, is not meant to be a solid foundation but requires constant improvement. Popper's focus on explanation in science is crucial; good explanations help us discover new things. The importance of testability lies in its ability to test explanations, particularly in physics. Experiments, demonstrations, and measurements are different ways of investigating phenomena. Demonstrations, like the acid and base example, are used to engage and intrigue students. Experiments, on the other hand, help differentiate between competing explanations and determine which one is more valid.

David Deutsch — Knowledge Creation and the Human Race, Part 2

Naval

Occam's razor (appropriately interpreted and in compromise with Epicurus' principle of indifference) tells us to assign high/low a priori plausibility to simple/complex strings x.

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