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We have all these history of innovation rationalizes what's happening in all these very, very strange ways.
我們一直以一種奇怪的方式來解釋發生了什么
But I think it's more than just an intellectual blind spot,
我想這不僅僅是理智上的盲點
I think it's also a psychological blind spot where we find ourselves, you know,
更是心理上的盲點，我們在其中
very attracted to competition in one form or another.
被各種各樣形式的競爭所吸引
We find it reassuring if other people do things.
如果其他人也在做同樣的事，我們感到安心
The word ape, already in the time of Shakespeare, meant both primate and imitate.
“猿”這個詞在莎士比亞時期就有了，既指靈長類動物，也是模仿的意思
And there is something about human nature that's deeply mimetic.
模仿是人類的本性，像猿一樣，像羊一樣
Imitative. Apelike, sheeplike, lemminglike, herdlike.
像旅鼠一樣，像獸群一樣，從這些詞就能看出來
And it's this very problematic thing that we need to always think through and try to overcome.
這是很有問題的，我們需要思考并克服它
And there is always this question about competition as a form of validation.
用競爭來檢驗有效性是長久以來的一個問題
Where we go for things that lots of other people are going for,
我們去做很多人正在做的事情
and it's not that there is wisdom in crowds,
并不是因為群體智慧
it's not when lots of people are trying to do something that, that's proof of it being valuable.
也不是因為這些人證明了這類事情是有價值的
I think it's when lots of people are trying to do something that is often proof of insanity.
我認為這種跟風的行為是不正常的
There are twenty thousand people a year who move to Los Angeles to become movie stars, about 20 of them make it.
每年差不多有2000人跑到洛杉磯想成為電影明星，只有差不多20個能成功
I think the Olympics are a little bit better,
當運動員能好一點
because you can figure out pretty quickly whether you're good or not,
因此你很快就能發現自己到底行不行
so there's a little bit less of a dead weight loss to society.
因此對社會來說，損失能少點。
