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omegaham on Sept 17, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Is There a Cryptocurrency Bubble? Just Ask Doge

From his talk:

> I refer to it by this name because I once discussed it with Murray Gell-Mann, and by dropping a famous name I imply greater importance to myself, and to the effect, than it would otherwise have.

umanwizard on Sept 17, 2017 [–]

This might be humblebragging, since Crichton is certainly more famous than Gell-Mann.

omegaham on Sept 17, 2017 | [–]

But Circhton was an author, while Gell-Mann was a physicist. We associate scientists with a lot more rigor than authors.

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