Greg Lukianoff

I know there's an optimal way to live my life.

So why can't someone just tell me what to do?

And it's this wonderfully, like...

accurate, I think, aspect of human desire that what if something could actually tell me the optimal way to go?

Because I think there is a desire to give up some amount of your own freedom and discretion in order to be told to do the optimally right thing.

But that path scares me to death.

Well, the educational aspect of it.

Yes, educational, yes.

Like, the idea of kind of like both going the speed that you need to and running as fast as you can.

Yeah.

You know?

And I'm definitely more in the, we're in an inescapably anarchical period, and require big cultural adjustments, and there's no way that this isn't going to be a difficult transition.

I have lots of thoughts on that.

With the printing press, an extra millions of eyes on any problem can tear down any institution, any person, or any idea.

And that's good in some ways because a lot of medieval institutions needed to be torn down and some people did too and a lot of ideas.

needed to be torn down.

Same thing is true now.

An extra billions of eyes on every problem can tear down any person, idea, or institution.

Again, some of those things needed to be torn down, but it can't build yet.

We are not at the stage that it can build yet, but it has shown us how thin our knowledge was.