What Naval Ravikant thinks about mathematics
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2 dated positions, 2019 to 2025, in their own words. Our reading of what Naval Ravikant has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingIn social science you can hold cuckoo beliefs and may end up with 10% real knowledge and 90% false.
Their wordsWhereas if you’re somewhere in social science, you can have all kinds of cuckoo beliefs. Even if you pick up some of the abstruse mathematics they use in social sciences, you may have 10% real knowledge, but 90% false knowledge.
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Their wordsThe ultimate foundation are mathematics and logic. If you understand logic and mathematics, then you have the basis for understanding the scientific method.
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