Tim Ferriss
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And I found a very long, what appeared to be defensible...
engineering explanation for how that is a explainable phenomenon without needing access to matrix code.
So, who knows?
Maybe.
But I would say... even without that, like, it's just...
Stuff is weird.
Stuff is really weird.
And, I mean, you don't have to go very far.
I'm trying to remember his name.
Fabrizio Benedetti, maybe?
I think that Ashley... No, it's not Ashley Vance.
There's another author.
But read any book written by a credible scientist or science journalist about the placebo effect.
All right.
And... If that is not one of the weirdest...
collections of verifiable data you've ever seen.
I mean, you look at any given study with an intervention, like a drug or whatever, you look at the supplemental materials, like, there's almost always gonna be someone in the control arm with a placebo who showed just as much effect.
With nothing.
With nothing.
Whether it's a surgery, whether it's a powerful drug, psychedelic even.