Tyler Cowen
Tetragrammaton with Rick Rubin
Rick Rubin
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2024
⏱️ 108 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tetrogrammaton |
| 0:02.0 | Tetracket. |
| 0:03.0 | There's an optimal speed of revelation for this stuff, right? |
| 0:26.5 | If you learned it all on one day, like in the Matrix, oh, it's the Matrix, you go crazy. |
| 0:31.6 | But if you learn 2% over the course of 2, 3 years, maybe you can handle it. |
| 0:36.8 | When do you think you first started waking up? |
| 0:41.3 | 13 or 14. |
| 0:43.3 | But waking up then was very different from now. |
| 0:46.3 | It was all different set of charades. |
| 0:49.3 | Like inflation then was high, people thought there was no way it could be brought down. |
| 0:55.7 | Pretty early on, I realized, well, that was wrong. |
| 0:58.2 | You just needed the will to do it, and of course we did it. |
| 1:01.3 | How did you know that it was wrong at such a young age? |
| 1:04.2 | Well, I read a lot, talked to some people, but you make your best guess at that age. |
| 1:09.9 | And there's no internet, so it's just very different standards. |
| 1:13.3 | You can't ever track down all the different points of view on any topic the way you can now. |
| 1:18.7 | How do you judge incoming information? |
| 1:22.5 | How do you verify it? |
| 1:24.3 | I ask, how does this fit in with broader lessons from history, first of all? |
| 1:29.3 | It's not that exceptions get ruled out automatically, but they face a higher bar. |
| 1:34.5 | Whereas if I read a tale of politicians being corrupt, like I'll challenge the details, but it's like, okay, I'm ready to believe this. |
| 1:42.8 | You look at the source, you look at who else |
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