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Whenever a "who (alive or dead) would you most like to have dinner with" question is posed no one ever picks Jesus, Mohammed or Buddha even though they're the objectively right choices.

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I guess I'm assuming we'd be able to magically communicate across languages. If we can only speak in languages I know and they knew when they were alive then the right answers are 15th to 18th century scientists.

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But why would you ever pick someone who has hours of video in which they explain their perspective on a variety of things? Why would you pick someone alive who you probably could meet if you tried hard enough?

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Even picking someone who is 100% an actual historical figure seems like a vague mistake. Why not Moses or Pythagoras?

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