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Jul 17, 2021
Episode | Date |
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Should we pause AI development until we're sure we can do it safely? (with Joep Meindertsma)
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Apr 24, 2024 |
What should the Effective Altruism movement learn from the SBF / FTX scandal? (with Will MacAskill)
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Apr 15, 2024 |
Why are so many people experiencing homelessness in big cities in the U.S., and what can be done to help? (with Kevin Adler)
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Apr 10, 2024 |
Common body language mistakes and how to avoid making them (with Blake Eastman)
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Apr 04, 2024 |
True things, useful things, and the differences between them (with Derek Sivers)
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Mar 27, 2024 |
Should we widen our moral circles to include animals, insects, and AIs? (with Jeff Sebo)
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Mar 20, 2024 |
How to have a positive impact with your career (with Benjamin Hilton)
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Mar 13, 2024 |
Spencer's takeaways after 200 episodes (with Spencer Greenberg)
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Mar 06, 2024 |
Psychological change in a single session (with Jessica Schleider)
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Feb 28, 2024 |
Academic group think, free speech norms, and the psychology of time (with Anne Wilson)
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Feb 21, 2024 |
How can Stoicism improve your life? (with Bill Irvine)
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Feb 14, 2024 |
Is there a grand unified theory of everyone? (with Michael Muthukrishna)
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Feb 08, 2024 |
The alternate histories and possible futures of nuclear weapons (with Carl Robichaud)
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Feb 02, 2024 |
How can AIs know what we want if *we* don't even know? (with Geoffrey Irving)
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Jan 24, 2024 |
Schemas, goals, values, and the pursuit of happiness (with Jeff Perron)
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Jan 17, 2024 |
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and beyond (with David Burns)
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Jan 10, 2024 |
There are shrinks, and then there are SUPER-shrinks (with Daryl Chow)
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Jan 03, 2024 |
Bringing conspiracy theorists back from the brink (with Jesse Richardson)
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Dec 28, 2023 |
Simulacra levels, moral mazes, and low-hanging fruit (with Zvi Mowshowitz)
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Dec 20, 2023 |
Effectively encouraging people to give more (with Josh Greene)
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Dec 15, 2023 |
We can't mitigate AI risks we've never imagined (with Darren McKee)
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Dec 06, 2023 |
What tools do students really need in order to become successful humans? (with AJ Crabill)
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Nov 29, 2023 |
Rethinking what it means to learn math (with Eugenia Cheng)
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Nov 22, 2023 |
Values, principles, and behavior change (with Eric Zimmer)
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Nov 15, 2023 |
Escaping a cult: physically, mentally, and emotionally (with Daniella Mestyanek Young)
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Nov 08, 2023 |
Win-Win vs. Moloch, the many-headed monster that may consume us all (with Liv Boeree)
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Nov 01, 2023 |
Do technological innovations yield net gains in the long run? (with Justin Smith-Ruiu)
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Oct 25, 2023 |
Money, status, power, and sex in nightclubs around the world (with Ashley Mears)
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Oct 18, 2023 |
Is bad air quality slowly harming us? (with Richard Bruns)
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Oct 11, 2023 |
Journalism in the age of AI (with Dylan Matthews)
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Oct 04, 2023 |
Experiments for enlightenment and fundamental wellbeing (with Jeffery Martin)
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Sep 27, 2023 |
Mothers who harm their children for attention (with Andrea Dunlop)
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Sep 20, 2023 |
Is evolutionary psychology just a bunch of "just so" stories? (with Geoffrey Miller)
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Sep 13, 2023 |
Systems of governance built on prediction markets (with Robin Hanson)
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Sep 07, 2023 |
Using metacognitive therapy to break the habit of rumination (with Pia Callesen)
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Aug 30, 2023 |
How quickly is AI advancing? And should you be working in the field? (with Danny Hernandez)
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Aug 23, 2023 |
Can we choose who we are? (with Gavin Leech)
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Aug 16, 2023 |
Normalizing catastrophes and catastrophizing normalcy (with Mike Pesca)
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Aug 09, 2023 |
What's wrong with society, and how can we fix it? (with Tim Urban)
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Aug 02, 2023 |
AI creativity and love (with Joel Lehman)
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Jul 26, 2023 |
Glimpses of enlightenment through nondual meditation (with Michael Taft and Jeremy Stevenson)
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Jul 19, 2023 |
Crumbling institutions, culture wars, and the dismissal economy (with Ashley Hodgson)
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Jul 12, 2023 |
Virtual reality, simulation theory, consciousness, and identity (with David Chalmers)
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Jul 05, 2023 |
Deep canvassing, street epistemology, and other tools of persuasion (with David McRaney)
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Jun 28, 2023 |
Will AI destroy civilization in the near future? (with Connor Leahy)
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Jun 21, 2023 |
Is AI development moving too fast or not fast enough? (with Reid Hoffman)
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Jun 14, 2023 |
Where philosophy meets the real world (with Peter Singer)
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Jun 07, 2023 |
Large language models, deep peace, and the meaning crisis (with Jim Rutt)
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May 31, 2023 |
Censorship, cancel culture, and truth-seeking (with Iona Italia)
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May 24, 2023 |
Why are birth rates plummeting? And how much does it matter? (with Malcolm & Simone Collins)
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May 18, 2023 |
Science is learning from start-ups (with Adam Marblestone)
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May 15, 2023 |
The range of human perceptual experiences (with Anil Seth)
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May 03, 2023 |
The capabilities approach to welfare (with Martha Nussbaum)
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Apr 27, 2023 |
Should you become a charity entrepreneur? (with Joey Savoie)
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Apr 19, 2023 |
Has political polarization been misunderstood? (with Nick Gillespie)
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Apr 12, 2023 |
How can you tell if you're cut out for entrepreneurship? (with Matt Clifford)
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Apr 05, 2023 |
Letting ChatGPT make your decisions for you (with Dax Flame)
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Mar 29, 2023 |
What good is college now that we can learn everything for free on the internet? (with Nick Dirks)
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Mar 22, 2023 |
Not seeing your face as a first step to enlightenment? (with Richard Lang)
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Mar 15, 2023 |
Is giving people a sense of agency better than giving them cash? (with Richard Sedlmayr)
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Mar 08, 2023 |
Are you working on the most important problem in your field? Why not? (with Rohit Krishnan)
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Mar 01, 2023 |
How huge a deal is climate change, really? (with Diana Ürge-Vorsatz and Misha Glouberman)
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Feb 22, 2023 |
Becoming a policy entrepreneur (with Tom Kalil)
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Feb 15, 2023 |
How to build your second brain (with Tiago Forte)
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Feb 08, 2023 |
Does every language have a word for depression? (with Sean Mayberry)
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Feb 01, 2023 |
What things in life *shouldn't* we optimize? (with Christie Aschwanden)
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Jan 25, 2023 |
How can we make science more trustworthy? (with Stuart Ritchie)
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Jan 19, 2023 |
Living a life of service to others (with Tasshin Fogleman)
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Jan 12, 2023 |
Mapping metaethics (with Lance Bush)
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Jan 05, 2023 |
Do organizations have to get slower as they grow? (with Alex Komoroske)
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Dec 28, 2022 |
How can we un-break politics? (with Magnus Vinding)
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Dec 21, 2022 |
Why capitalism doesn't live up to its promises (with Martin Schmalz)
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Dec 14, 2022 |
Anti-interoperability, vendor lock-in, and high switching costs (with Cory Doctorow)
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Dec 07, 2022 |
Separating the sinner from the sin (with Khomotso Moshikaro)
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Nov 30, 2022 |
The FTX catastrophe (with Byrne Hobart, Vipul Naik, Maomao Hu, Marcus Abramovich, and Ozzie Gooen)
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Nov 28, 2022 |
How to find out what people in rural communities really need (with Robert Chambers)
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Nov 23, 2022 |
Building healthy relationships (with Jayson Gaddis)
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Nov 16, 2022 |
Bringing rationality into politics (with Elizabeth Edwards-Appell)
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Nov 09, 2022 |
Sex workers — empowered, or victims? (with Melissa Broudo)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
What, if anything, do AIs understand? (with ChatGPT Co-Creator Ilya Sutskever)
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Oct 26, 2022 |
Forecasting the things that matter (with Peter Wildeford)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
Is the universe a computer? (with Joscha Bach)
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Oct 12, 2022 |
Inventions, stories, and ideas that don't matter (with Pablos Holman)
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Oct 05, 2022 |
Humble-bragging, counter-signalling, and impression management (with Övül Sezer)
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Sep 28, 2022 |
Ambition and expected value at extremes (with Habiba Islam)
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Sep 21, 2022 |
Career science, open science, and inspired science (with Alexa Tullett)
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Sep 14, 2022 |
Estimating the long-term impact of our actions today (with Will MacAskill)
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Sep 07, 2022 |
The differences between analytic and continental philosophy (with Alexander Prescott-Couch)
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Aug 31, 2022 |
Voting method reform in the US (with Aaron Hamlin)
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Aug 24, 2022 |
Critiquing Effective Altruism (with Michael Nielsen and Ajeya Cotra)
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Aug 19, 2022 |
How to form habits effectively (with Jim Davies)
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Aug 10, 2022 |
Are scientific journals just parasites? (with Chris Chambers)
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Aug 07, 2022 |
Human bias in the definition of intelligence (with Alene Anello)
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Jul 27, 2022 |
Guess culture vs. ask culture (with Will Eden and Sam Rosen)
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Jul 20, 2022 |
Are we all the heroes of our own stories? (with Cate Hall)
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Jul 13, 2022 |
Content moderation and its dis-content-moderators (with Ada Palmer)
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Jul 06, 2022 |
Exploring sex science and pseudo-science (with Mary Roach)
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Jun 29, 2022 |
The worst mistakes people make with diet and exercise (with Menno Henselmans)
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Jun 22, 2022 |
Communicating what you really mean (with Misha Glouberman)
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Jun 15, 2022 |
Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)
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Jun 08, 2022 |
A philosophical theory of jerks (with Eric Schwitzgebel)
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Jun 01, 2022 |
How meanings get words and social sciences get broken (with Literal Banana)
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May 25, 2022 |
Dealing with our "groupstruckness" and "boundedness" (with Katja Grace)
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May 18, 2022 |
Math as a perspective on life (with Marcus du Sautoy)
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May 11, 2022 |
A former Al-Qaeda recruiter speaks (with Jesse Morton)
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May 04, 2022 |
Cognitive biases and animal welfare (with Leah Edgerton)
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Apr 27, 2022 |
Is it bad to coerce yourself to do unpleasant things? (with Matt Goldenberg)
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Apr 20, 2022 |
Our 100th episode! (with Uri Bram and Spencer Greenberg)
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Apr 13, 2022 |
Volunteering to be infected with COVID — for science! (with Josh Morrison)
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Apr 06, 2022 |
What we really mean when we say that something will "probably" happen (with Walt Hickey)
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Mar 30, 2022 |
Why is self-compassion so hard? (with Kristin Neff)
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Mar 23, 2022 |
Why it's so hard to have confidence that charities are doing good (with Elie Hassenfeld)
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Mar 16, 2022 |
Shovelgloves and extreme moderation (with Reinhard Engels)
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Mar 09, 2022 |
Mental models that apply across disciplines (with Blas Moros)
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Mar 02, 2022 |
Accessing pure consciousness at any moment (with Loch Kelly)
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Feb 23, 2022 |
Fight, flight, freeze, fawn (with Sasha Raskin)
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Feb 16, 2022 |
The science of addiction (with Crystal Dilworth)
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Feb 10, 2022 |
Evidence, reason, and compassion for all sentient beings (with Jamie Woodhouse)
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Feb 02, 2022 |
Can the economy grow indefinitely? (with Alyssa Vance)
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Jan 26, 2022 |
How many minds do you have? (with Kaj Sotala)
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Jan 19, 2022 |
Are you a wamb or a nerd? (with Tom Chivers)
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Jan 12, 2022 |
Behind the scenes of the online dating world (with Tom Quisel)
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Jan 05, 2022 |
The clash between social justice and anti-wokeness (with Amber Dawn and Holly Elmore)
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Dec 22, 2021 |
Tyler's three laws and twelve rules (with Tyler Cowen)
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Dec 15, 2021 |
Freezing to (not) death: cryonics and the quest for immortality (with Max Marty)
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Dec 08, 2021 |
The pre/trans fallacy, and why you should learn the skill of coaching (with Eben Pagan)
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Dec 01, 2021 |
What does humanity need to survive after a global catastrophe? (with David Denkenberger)
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Nov 24, 2021 |
To be successful, should you focus on your strengths or your weaknesses? (with Anna Paley)
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Nov 17, 2021 |
When is suffering good? (with Paul Bloom)
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Nov 11, 2021 |
What causes progress? And how can we stop it from slowing? (with Jason Crawford)
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Nov 03, 2021 |
Clearer paths and sharper ideas (with Lynette Bye)
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Oct 28, 2021 |
How to measure impact, and why we may have all been doing it wrong (with Michael Plant)
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Oct 24, 2021 |
Major and minor scales of consciousness (with Andrés Gomez Emilsson)
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Oct 13, 2021 |
The art of being a creative person (with Georgia Shreve)
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Oct 07, 2021 |
An interview with an A.I. (with GPT-3 and Jeremy Nixon)
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Sep 30, 2021 |
Beyond cognitive biases: improving judgment by reducing noise (with Daniel Kahneman)
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Sep 23, 2021 |
How to use your career to have a large impact (with Ben Todd)
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Sep 15, 2021 |
Why does psychotherapy work (when it works at all)? (with Scott Miller)
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Sep 08, 2021 |
How broken is social science? (with Matt Grossman)
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Sep 02, 2021 |
How to communicate better with the people in your life (with Sara Ness)
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Aug 28, 2021 |
How to hack your own brain (with Elizabeth Ricker)
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Aug 21, 2021 |
Why do civilizations collapse? And is ours next? (with Samo Burja)
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Aug 19, 2021 |
Utopia on earth and morality without guilt (with Joe Carlsmith)
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Aug 11, 2021 |
How do you leverage your limitations? (with Oliver Burkeman)
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Aug 04, 2021 |
The secrets of effective learning (with Andy Matuschak)
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Jul 29, 2021 |
Exploring your shadow and healing your traumas (with Aurora Quinn-Elmore)
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Jul 25, 2021 |
Dances with robots (with Catie Cuan)
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Jul 21, 2021 |
Heaven and hell on earth: a trip to the limits of human consciousness (with Anthony David Adams)
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Jul 18, 2021 |
How can we save the world? (with Toby Ord)
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Jul 15, 2021 |
Risk-Driven Development and Decentralization (with Satvik Beri)
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Jul 11, 2021 |
Statistics Intuitions and Social Science Reproducibility (with Stuart Buck)
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Jul 07, 2021 |
Genomics and Health Outcomes (with Noor Siddiqui)
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Jul 04, 2021 |
Rationality and Cognitive Science (with Anna Riedl)
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Jul 01, 2021 |
Self-Improvement and Behavior Change (with James Norris)
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Jun 26, 2021 |
Everyday Statistics and Climate Change Strategies (with Cassandra Xia)
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Jun 23, 2021 |
Conscious Processes and Intelligence (with Richard Nisbett)
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Jun 19, 2021 |
Educational Restructuring and Investing (with Matt Greenfield)
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Jun 17, 2021 |
Chinese Culture and Love Addiction (with Ava King)
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Jun 12, 2021 |
User Engagement and Expert Intuition (with Rob Haisfield)
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Jun 09, 2021 |
Psychological Models and Parenting (with Divia Eden)
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Jun 05, 2021 |
Productive Conversations and Feedback Loops (with Julia Carvalho)
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Jun 03, 2021 |
EA Efficacy and Community Norms (with Stefan Schubert)
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May 30, 2021 |
Explanatory Depth and Growth Mindset (with Daniel Greene)
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May 26, 2021 |
AI Safety and Solutions (with Robert Miles)
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May 22, 2021 |
Online and IRL Relationships (with Steve Dean)
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May 19, 2021 |
Utilitarianism and Its Flavors (with Nick Beckstead)
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May 16, 2021 |
Cults and Social Needs (with Alice Mottola)
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May 12, 2021 |
History and Longevity (with Will Eden)
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May 08, 2021 |
Knowledge Management and Deugenesis (with Jeremy Nixon)
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May 05, 2021 |
Crypto Pros and Cons (with Sam Bankman-Fried)
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Apr 29, 2021 |
Behavior Change and Interpersonal Connection (with Ting Jiang)
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Apr 21, 2021 |
Scout and Soldier Mindsets (with Julia Galef)
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Apr 14, 2021 |
Social Science and Science Journalism (with Jesse Singal)
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Apr 07, 2021 |
Search Data and Self-Improvement (with Seth Stephens-Davidowitz)
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Mar 31, 2021 |
Poker and Productivity (with Chris Sparks)
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Mar 24, 2021 |
Moral Discourse and the Value of Philosophy (with Ronny Fernandez)
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Mar 17, 2021 |
Superintelligence and Consciousness (with Roman Yampolskiy)
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Mar 10, 2021 |
Meditation and Ontology (with Daniel Ingram)
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Mar 03, 2021 |
Rationality Education and Dating (with Jacob Falkovich)
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Feb 24, 2021 |
Preference Falsification and Postmodernism (with Michael Vassar)
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Feb 17, 2021 |
Moral Foundations Theory and Constructive Dialogue (with Caroline Mehl)
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Feb 10, 2021 |
Past / Future Selves and Intrinsic Values (with Simone Collins)
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Feb 03, 2021 |
Happiness and Hedonic Adaptation (with Rob Smith)
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Jan 27, 2021 |
Decision-Making Under Uncertainty and Entrepreneurship (with Miles Lasater)
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Jan 20, 2021 |
Sexuality and Dominance Hierarchies (with Malcolm Collins)
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Jan 13, 2021 |
Self-Improvement and Research Ethics (with Rob Wiblin)
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Jan 07, 2021 |
Antagonistic Learning and Civilization (with Duncan Sabien)
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Dec 29, 2020 |
Worldviews and Framing (with Elizabeth Kim)
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Dec 22, 2020 |
Intelligence and Creativity (with Scott Barry Kaufman)
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Dec 15, 2020 |
Scientific Progress and the Replication Crisis (with Geoff Anders)
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Dec 09, 2020 |
Enlightenment and Sex Work (with Aella)
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Dec 02, 2020 |
Scientific Progress and Political Feedback Loops (with Michael Nielsen)
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Nov 24, 2020 |
52 Living Ideas and the Four Systems Model (with Shrikant Rangnekar)
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Nov 17, 2020 |
Learning and Governance (with Emerson Spartz)
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Nov 10, 2020 |
Liberalism and Conservatism (with Cassandra Xia and Hank Racette)
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Nov 04, 2020 |
Psychedelics and Comedy (with Sarah Rose Siskind)
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Oct 27, 2020 |
Comfort Languages and Nuanced Thinking (with Kat Woods)
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Oct 20, 2020 |
Learning and Goal-Setting (with Michael Simmons)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
Aesthetics and Polyamory (with Sam Rosen)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
Meditation and Enlightenment (with Jeremy Stevenson)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
Forgiveness and E-Prime (with Josh Castle)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
Lines of Retreat and Incomplete Maps (with Anna Salamon)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
THINKERS Workshop (with Spencer Greenberg)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
Death and Story-Telling (with A.J. Jacobs)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
Life Experiments and Philosophical Thinking (with Arden Koehler)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
Negotiation and Psychological Immune Systems (with Julie Kheyfets)
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Oct 13, 2020 |
Education and Charity (with Uri Bram)
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Oct 13, 2020 |