- That's right. - And the moment you're no longer effective, you don't get to have this leadership position. We're all kings. That's gangster. Throughout history, the Mongols, Genghis Khan was famous for this meritocracy. - That's right. Yeah.
He said, "Well, look, let me explain to you how policing used to work. Historically, policing is a subjective exercise. You drive around suspicious neighborhoods looking for suspicious activity. And ah, there is the root of the bias. What's suspicious to me is different than her and different than him.
So, the first thing we asked was, "What about data ownership? Who should own this data? This is a lot of data. Historically, companies, my competitors, own the data and then they resell that data for other use cases. In Flock's model, the customer always own the data.
The second was retention. Well, how long should this data exist? Historically, companies in this industry stored the data in perpetuity. That seems to me more like a liability than an asset. So, we delete the data at 30 days. If cities and states have laws that say it should store longer, we do that.
act connect to the type of reprisal? What kind of reprisals do people do? and so on. The whole scope of moral life I just totally fascinates me. One of the great questions through our intellectual history is where did morality come from? How did we get from creatures who evolved through natural selection, a fundamentally selfish process involving a replication of genes? How did we get from that to creatures who help each other, love each other, get outraged at unfairness, help distant strangers and so on? This is one of the great questions and I think it's been mostly
when we as human beings living in the story, try to figure out what's going on, is that so much of what's going on started before we got here. It's like the old Marx line that you don't get to make history the way you want. You inherit a world that was created by other people and that has constraints that those other people were dealing with. And then we add new elements, right? It's their world from 1960 plus the internet plus this plus that has changing moral values plus, you know, and add a bunch of different things. So, I mean, I feel like we're just in a more intense
And yet there are far fewer family farms and people have left farming for other jobs. Historically, there have always been other jobs, right? So the unemployment rate over time is basically flat.
Well, let me first open with— History is written by the winners. Okay? Like, history is written by the winners.
- This is perhaps a bit outside the scope of what we'll talk about today, but just to lay out the context on slavery in general in human history, we should say that slavery was ubiquitous. It existed in virtually every major civilization in the history of humans. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, the Islamic world, Africa, the Americas, North and South America.
- Like, irony is wonderful- ... in history. Another thing that I love to teach is that the most intrusive central government in American history, by far, until deep into the 20th century, was the Confederate central government, because it had to do things to keep the war going that it couldn't have done unless the central government stepped in, such as passing the first national conscription law in American history. The
community of the Roman people, the Roman citizens. And it is in gradual evolution, but at no point is there a rupture in that history such that its members would ever think that something dramatic had changed, and that they're no longer part of that story. So in the same way as the ship I just mentioned, in other words, it's the narrative that you tell about it where the changes that take place to it make sense only when you see them within the context of that story.
Other times, the people come out 'cause they hate the emperor, and they drag the emperor out and cut his nose off or history, if you consider his own family. But if you're living in the provinces, you know, there's... He's not-
Newton, that you can think of the effort of physics as one is trying to unify- ... the laws of nature. So I was wondering if we could talk through the history of unification- ... that lens of physics. - There are, of course, lots of different ways to do physics, but the way that I would say that particle physicists, cosmologists do
choice is being used and they don't want to use the axiom of choice, so they work out the consequences that's- that are possible without the axiom of choice or with weakened history of mathematics has a mathematical theorem been argued about so publicly and so vociferously as that theorem of
And I actually want to take a pause right there and point out a word. Historically, we've used the word reactor around fusion, but I don't think that's right. And for me, we're really careful about this terminology. When we look to how that word is defined, and we can look to how the experts define it, it doesn't really apply to fusion.
before. Kershaw, for example, who is really a great... He's very knowledgeable about National Socialism. Like many British historians, they always know more about German history than the German historians, but Kershaw really does. I think he's, he's really good. But in his biography of Hitler, he just writes one sentence like, "And then he had a crazy doctor called Morell who gave him dubious medications and drugs," and he stops there, and then he goes on to
That is, I think, true. That is what I now really am interested in for my next book. I'm trying to really understand human history. And obviously, I'm not the first. There are a few, you know, alternative historians that go like... Because you have to go back in time quite a bit, and then it's not easy to write about it, but it's very interesting to think about. And I would love to find the
It's a problem I've worked on a lot in my early research. Historically, it came from a little puzzle by the Japanese mathematician Soichi Kakeya in 1918 or so. So the puzzle is that you have a needle on the plane,
One, almost every election is unbelievably close, for reasons that I'm not sure I entirely understand, the parties have gotten really good, historically, bizarrely good at getting each group to come to the polls with about 48%, such that every election is a battle over the next 1.5%. And in a world like that, little thermostatic swings are very important.
specifically in North Gujarat, in Mehsana District, in a small town called Vadnagar. Historically, this town holds great significance. And so, Vadnagar is where I was born and completed my early education.
This spirit of service, in a way, was nurtured through these experiences. Historically,
Historically, the reason why not everyone might do it is because it's a implementation complexity, especially when doing these big models.
historically speaking is really the only way for an ordinary person to accumulate capital. If you don't have access to capital at a time when asset prices are
history. The indicators of pure crazy euphoria, like SpaceX, are all over the
Historically, no. Historically Yeah, and even Rubio says on camera that, you know, historically, this has
history, Henry Kissinger for 2 years. No one else has ever had both those jobs at the same time. The fact that he ended up
history and from that historical memory.
historically. We can talk about the future, but historically, there has been a mechanical relationship between formal
history. You understand?" And so, so for three years they they refused to talk to
historian and a theologian. So, I study ancient biblical manuscripts. And if you truly understand what this book is
historians, biblical scholars, classicists would argue that the 27 books of the New Testament are written in the 1st century.
historian Julian Zelizer. We're going to do that back in New York, though. Let's do it.
historical. And I'm saying why do we think that is?
history. But when it comes to your wireless bill, transparency can mean everything. That's why Mint Mobile's
historical patterns we've seen. You can't explain Mexico falling below the US in terms of female education or
historically. Um and it's sometimes the case that people do violence because of
historic place and we get to see something that we really like like UFC.
history of joint military drills?
historical uh quality of this of this set. And I've
historically been an ally of Israel. How significant or unusual is this kind of
history. But do we ever learn from history? Well, But do we ever learn from history? Well, Professor Benton says there are enough
history in the past as well. But I do But I do think that um the the the
history speaks, uh but the circumstances now are very different.
Historically exempt from mandatory service to study the Torah, Israel's ultraorthodox community is facing
History could have played out very differently.
Historically, they burned small, low-intensity controlled burns as a way of curating the landscape.
Historically, creating these inventories really required a bunch of manual effort, either from tree technicians or from volunteers, like we saw with the New York City tree
historically. We had the Stoneys in Canada, and Paulina is from Stoney Reserve.
history, IQ. We all could do it.
Historians believe that he shortened the length of World War II by two years.