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We need to draw more of you in and count on the fact that we've been underestimating the intelligence of our followers for quite some time, and start playing up to your level. And we may lose you along the way, but I have faith that with our ability to monitor your comments and listen to your feedback, that we can find an entirely new level of explication in which many of you will find that far from being left behind by specialists, you are actually able to participate in conversations that have previously been restricted only to experts. So I think we're going to try to pitch it at a higher level. We're going to try to rescue a business model, so that we can get more people with the ability to experiment in front of a camera as I'm doing now, but we've also decided to explore some topics that I think could break some serious ground. | We need to draw more of you in and count on the fact that we've been underestimating the intelligence of our followers for quite some time, and start playing up to your level. And we may lose you along the way, but I have faith that with our ability to monitor your comments and listen to your feedback, that we can find an entirely new level of explication in which many of you will find that far from being left behind by specialists, you are actually able to participate in conversations that have previously been restricted only to experts. So I think we're going to try to pitch it at a higher level. We're going to try to rescue a business model, so that we can get more people with the ability to experiment in front of a camera as I'm doing now, but we've also decided to explore some topics that I think could break some serious ground. | ||
=== Exploring Ground- | === Exploring Ground-Breaking Topics === | ||
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In essence, our entire economy owes itself to theoretical physics. And are we going to let this field wither and die on the vine because it hasn't been able to succeed in roughly 45 years? I would say that this is the place that we have to bring the fight. People have not understood how vulnerable we are when we start to lose our most dynamic communities, and we find ourselves incapable of fighting for the resources, either in terms of neurons, or in terms of dollars, that are necessary to sustain our hope of progress. | In essence, our entire economy owes itself to theoretical physics. And are we going to let this field wither and die on the vine because it hasn't been able to succeed in roughly 45 years? I would say that this is the place that we have to bring the fight. People have not understood how vulnerable we are when we start to lose our most dynamic communities, and we find ourselves incapable of fighting for the resources, either in terms of neurons, or in terms of dollars, that are necessary to sustain our hope of progress. | ||
=== Theorizing and Edge.org === | === Early Theorizing and Edge.org === | ||
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