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It was simply a rule of how scientists operated that you had to try to disprove your own theories, and if you made an honest effort and failed, that was victory.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Books Summary: The modern use of the word cult is, we have this very micro-deficient cult. It's like a fake new religion as compared to the all presumably real older. In the language of the ancient city, these are all cults. Transcript: Speaker 1 Yeah, yeah. In the language of the ancient city, these are all cults. These are all cults. The modern use of the word cult is, we have this very micro-deficient cult, which is like, whatever, basically what it's called meaning, kind of, modern parlance. It's like a fake new religion. As compared to the all presumably real older. Speaker 2 Let me ask you a spicy question. If Mark had reason for starting a cult, what would that cult have to do and believe in? Don't you, I mean, you already have the answer. Speaker 1 You're in it. Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah. Mark, I just thought you were going to say, my religion will require a sacrifice. Speaker 1 Of course it requires a price. All religious requires a sacrifice. Speaker 2 Yeah. Yeah. Someday our daughter has to be taken away from us, like, without city. Wow. Speaker 1 No, no, no. We have the diluted form. My version, my call is a very diluted form of what my predecessor 4000 years ago would have had. Speaker 2 Yeah, she only has listened to Mark's podcast. Speaker 1 But appropriately so. There we go. OK. Booktube. Speaker 2 Booktube. The Machiavellian's by a burner. Yeah. Speaker 1 So actually, there's two books by Burnham. I referenced the Machiavellian's is actually stronger on, it's very good on politics, political theory, political structure, political power. And I'm happy to talk about that. The other book, the managerial revolution, is actually even more relevant, I think, to the kind of world that we live in. And maybe I could touch on that one if that's OK. Yeah. Yeah.

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

Aarthi and Sriram's Good Time Show

To suppose that these are cases in which custom has conquered nature, so that the Indians no longer feel frost and fire, would be an erroneous conclusion because nature can never be overcome.

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Marcus Tullius Cicero

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