C. Thi Nguyen
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And the other feature is that we outsource all the time
Because we don't have enough time to do everything.
Time and just like cognitive capacity.
Exactly.
This is the most, okay, this is the other half of what I think about in philosophy that barely made it to into this book, but I think is actually the crucial half.
The other crucial thing, which is,
The essential feature of humans right now is no human being can understand even close to everything for themselves, right?
Humans are, the world is vast.
We have to specialize.
I don't think that's exactly right.
It's close, but I want to disagree with one big part of that.
So I think part of what's going on is each of us has a domain where we are a specialist and we can really think clearly in that domain and a lot of other domains where we trust other people because we have to trust other people.
We have to outsource stuff all the time.
I mean, you outsource stuff because you don't care about it, right?
I mean, I think that's part of what you're doing.
Like I...
I mean, I'm going to horrify all of you, but I don't think about finance at all.
Like, I just โ like, I spend a tiny amount of my time.
I do totally normal โ I just look at some general ranking.
I'm like, I'll just put my money in some, like, whatever mutual fund that people think is right.