Benedict Evans
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941 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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Um so I went I went to Cambridge and I remember there being some people there who'd been homeschooled.
who were very, very impressed with how clever they were 'cause they'd never met anybody else who was clever too, or and had read different books.
Clive James, who's this British writer, had this line about like going to university is supposed to school cure you for the curse of the autodidact, which is that other people are clever too and read different books.
Silicon Valley really has this problem in not understanding that other industries are hard.
Like the airline business is hard.
They're not just idiots.
It's difficult.
Um and the Doomers were all it was all like they were homeschooled, like autodide outside, like they were all really clever people who all like lived in group houses in Berkeley and all talked to each other and told each other how clever they were.
and constructed these logically flawless circular arguments.
And no one had kind of said yes, but there are
That argument doesn't work.
I mean, do I I think I I I came on I talked about, you know, the um
And Selms.
Proof.
The Anselm which is actually kind of a paradox, which is basically Anselm proves he basically says God exists, therefore God must exist.
It's not quite as simple as that.
But it was basically a perfect circular argument that God existed by just by the you could you could just define God into existence.
And you can't disprove it logically.
I mean, or it took like fifty five I think Kant disproved it, but it took like s ev six hundred years to disprove it, seven hundred years to disprove it.
And a lot of the Duma arguments were like that.
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