- Link:: https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/eric-weinstein-intellectual-dark-web
- Author:: Eric Weinstein
- people are addicted to steady growth but that growth can’t go on forever. what happens when it doesn’t go they way people expect it to?
- embedded growth obligation: how fast a structure has to grow in order to maintain honest positions
- phenomena has produced institutions more concerned with growth than honesty
- “Experts are rewarded for sustaining the institution, not necessarily for being honest or doing the best work in their field.”
- Disagreeable individuals are the key to saving us
- don’t care if you’re right, care if you’re not bullshitting me
- honesty is better than ideological alignment