A comparison of Safedean Ammous to Deepak Chopra isn't useful IMO. Chopra does likely have views on economics but it's not the focus of his work. Ammous' work is about economics.
Thus it appears you're merely trying to discredit one person by comparing them to another person whose views (on a totally different topic) are ridiculed/controversial (for potentially legitimate reasons).
As to Lee Smolin .. he appears rather off-topic to me in this discussion. I like his view on "There is only one universe." though [1]. Makes him stand out from the many many people who handle the meaning of words with insufficient rigor and then come up with useless conclusions.
> People’s appearance on Lex Fridman shouldn’t be used as an indicator of anything.
I was just linking to this interview because it's reasonably well done and Ammous' views come over, not because it was done by Fridman.
Thus it appears you're merely trying to discredit one person by comparing them to another person whose views (on a totally different topic) are ridiculed/controversial (for potentially legitimate reasons).
As to Lee Smolin .. he appears rather off-topic to me in this discussion. I like his view on "There is only one universe." though [1]. Makes him stand out from the many many people who handle the meaning of words with insufficient rigor and then come up with useless conclusions.
> People’s appearance on Lex Fridman shouldn’t be used as an indicator of anything.
I was just linking to this interview because it's reasonably well done and Ammous' views come over, not because it was done by Fridman.
> But he isn’t very selective about guests.
Which is IMO a good thing.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Smolin#Views