Interview with Reid Hoffman

So I did a summer internship at Xerox Park, where my job was building a simulator for a multiagent learning system. But the thing that I learned from philosophy was an ability to articulate theories crisply, which led to an ability to express crisp theories of human nature, which aligns with some of the most interesting things around , like consumer internet and entrepreneurship. But understanding — here is the way the world could be, here is the theory of human nature that you’re playing into in order to create that world, and here is that kind of combination of psychology, sociology and economics together with what’s possible in technology — that combination was enabled much more by philosophical thinking.

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