There are very few people that can contribute to our work. He has mastered the science, logic, and law and is the only other person able to work with me to write the definitions, descriptions, and prohibitions on the vast scope of means of lying – as well as nearly every other aspect of the work – into law.
Some people do not seek external validation. He doesn’t. In fact he is quite quiet and unassuming in person. He just knows what he’s talking about. And his knowledge of intellectual history, his understanding of behavioral economics, and his ability to use the method to express those economics is extraordinary.
One of the best living mathematicians lives with his mother in St Petersburg Russia and just does math. One of the best theoretical physicists lives in a van, and surfs every day. Many of us cannot tolerate the politics of the academy. So this is why we work outside it. And it’s not surprising that in multiple fields, any field that does not require exorbitant funding, that better work is done outside the academy than in.
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Source date (UTC): 2024-01-31 23:08:26 UTC
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