@naval returned to @tferris show to talk about science, happiness, reducing anxiety, and crypto

Key Takeaways:

Sequels suck because they cost 3x as much and have less time to come up with a good idea

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Loves Richard Feynman because he did science and serious work but was a character who didn’t take himself to seriously. “A full stack intellectual hacker of life”

“Believing in science” is misguided. Science doesn’t need belief. If it’s not falsifiable, it’s not science.

2/20

“If there was no truth to it, it wouldn’t hurt at all. If I said Tim Ferris is fat, that would just bounce right off of you. If I said Tim Ferris and Naval are fake gurus, that might hit us because we kind of suspect at some deep level, there’s a part of that that’s true.”

3/20

“Individuals can search for truth but groups search for consensus...The moment you make science about large groups and about voting and about consensus, you’re not really practicing science anymore.”

4/20

“In an ideal scientific world, you don’t go and survey 10,000 scientists. You pick the one smartest scientist.”

Jargon is useful when it is a compressed way of communicating knowledge. Jargon is not useful when it becomes a substitute for fundamental understanding.

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