This week, Dwarkesh Podcast explored how our understanding of influential thinkers shapes policy and technology. Conversations ranged from Ada Palmer's reassessment of Machiavelli's actual ideas to the practical challenge of missing data in AI systems, surfacing a common thread: the gap between what we think we know and what we actually do.
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