culture

“Countries are only really great if they have great culture. It's not like it's then you have a great country, and then you add culture. When we look back at history, we don't, you know, count how much money different civilizations have, because it's all relati…”

“And I think this emergence of computers as a source of knowledge is going to be every bit as momentous as the previous three were.”

“Conversely, a lot of the knowledge that we have from evolution and from experience and from culture, we often tend to think of it as much more certain than it really is. We have this great tendency that's been well studied by psychologists to be overconfident …”

“Culture matters, but it matters in silos. What happened is that deep down inside, just because you grew up in Kenya or in another corrupt country, it doesn't mean that you become corrupt as an individual. It just means that culture come and says there are some…”

“You can imagine, you're actually playing a whole series of local interaction models. And that collection of local interaction solutions you can think of as comprising a part of culture.”

“You can make something a moral issue, but it's not gonna really stick or work unless it's at least related to one of the moral foundations.”

“At some level, like in biology, we're wired with a hierarchical instinct, right? We see it in animals, we see it in tribes, we see it in how we organize organizations, and then how we curb or direct that instinct becomes sort of like culture or philosophy or r…”

“Driving culture is really important because if you don't, you know, other people will fill that void. Right. And you get subcultures in a city or a division, Because strong personalities can do that. So unless you are filling that void, right? It will get fill…”