It's all too easy to slip into doing a softball puff piece — fawning all over your guests and treating them like gurus dispensing wisdom from a mountain. This is an even easier trap for someone like Dwarkesh, who is very young and who is primarily known for interviewing people instead of for dispensing his own thoughts. So it's extremely impressive that he consistently avoids this trap — he always manages to challenge and provoke his subjects, rather than just letting them spout their usual talking points.
I think with as quickly as news breaks, and as short as everyones attention span is, we have never been more inundated with information, misinformation and content. Discernment is more important than its ever been.
1w ago
The chief danger of our age is that all mankind should be sunk in a depression of the same kind, all held in the same mold by the oppressiveness of a system of thought in which there is neither criticism of life nor xiety about truth.
It seems to me then, that a lot of supposed ethical issues lose a lot of their heat once you get your facts straight.
1mo ago
The purpose of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to close it on something solid.
1mo ago
The chief wonder of education is that it does not destroy the mind of the pupil at all. When one considers the usual methods of teaching, this is indeed extraordinary. Yet it does happen, and I should say that in nine cases out of ten it happens by accident.
1mo ago
It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunnings achievements of science. The divorce of the two produces politicians without ideas and scientists without conscience.
1mo ago
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
1mo ago
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
1mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
