Avi Loeb
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Podcast Appearances
That someone develops it and then keeps doing work on it such that at some point they've stopped referencing the initiator of the idea.
Or if I tell someone at the conference they do it, they don't credit me.
And so there are many babies that were born this way without me being recognized as the originator.
It's important though, because don't you think that even undergrads are just instinctively drawn to the narrative, drawn to the mainstream, that you kind of have to knock them off the path once in a while.
And in a lecture that I gave a colloquium at Harvard just a week ago,
The front row was full of graduate students.
They recognized the potential.
And even one of the senior members of our faculty came to me afterwards and said, that makes a lot of sense what you just talked about.
I don't understand why people are attacking you.
It makes a lot of sense.
And I said, yeah, that's my point.
And they must be doing that because of either jealousy to the public outreach that they have.
And there are millions of people reading my essays on Medium.
I recently- You publish almost every day on Medium.
Well, it's like a fountain of ideas and it doesn't...
take too much effort on my side because creativity keeps pumping new ideas and now I'm doing better because I jog every morning so I'm in very good shape and I eat healthy food and surrounded by women and I cannot complain about you know I'm really happy I have two daughters and a wife and
So everything seems great.
But every now and then I get knocked out and it's often done without their free noticing.
So people are just like this editor trying to do it so that nobody notices.
When someone notices, the editor corrects.