Tim Urban
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2,102 appearances
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first heard Feb 2023
last heard Feb 2023
Tim Urban’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the way that we can do that, we have to be as wise as possible to proceed forward.
And wisdom...
is an emergent property of discourse.
That's not wisdom then.
If you're being arrogant, you're being unwise.
Yeah, I think wisdom is doing what people 100 years from now with the hindsight that we don't have would do if they could come back in time and they knew everything.
It's like, how do we figure out how to have hindsight when we actually are not?
Well, then you get lucky.
Then maybe you get to a good future by stumbling upon it.
But ideally, you can get there.
I think a lot of America, the great things about it are a product of
the wisdom of previous Americans.
You know, the Constitution was a pretty, you know, pretty wise system to set up.
It's a compass.
It's a compass when you're in the fog.
It's a compass, yeah.
Okay, but here's the thing.
So I think we should have a compass is nice, but you know what else is nice?
It's a flashlight in the fog.
You can't see that far, but you can see, oh, you can see four feet ahead instead of one foot.
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