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Is psychology the same across cultures? (with Joseph Henrich)
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What are "WEIRD" cultures? What percentage of the world's population is WEIRD? Why do WEIRD cultures tend to use …
1 year, 9 months ago
Spencer on The 80,000 Hours Podcast discussing money & happiness and hype vs. value (with Rob Wiblin)
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NOTE: Spencer appeared as a guest on The 80,000 Hours Podcast back in March, and this episode is our release of …
1 year, 9 months ago
Concrete actions anyone can take to help improve AI safety (with Kat Woods)
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Why should we consider slowing AI development? Could we slow down AI development even if we wanted to? What is a …
1 year, 9 months ago
What do socialism and effective altruism have in common? (with Garrison Lovely)
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What does effective altruism look like from a leftist / socialist perspective? Are the far left and EA the only g…
1 year, 9 months ago
Raising our happiness baseline (with Sasha Chapin)
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How easy is it to shift our baseline level of happiness? What sorts of things can most effectively shift that bas…
1 year, 9 months ago
Worldviews, altruism, and embracing variance (with Emmett Shear)
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How does Emmett's worldview differ from the standard Silicon Valley worldview? What's the difference between an i…
1 year, 10 months ago
Two things shape the course of your life: luck and your decisions (with Annie Duke)
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Should people spend more time becoming better decision-makers? What are the main things that determine how our li…
1 year, 10 months ago
What we know and don't know about nutrition (with Gil Carvalho)
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How do we know what's true in nutrition? Why aren't nutrition studies seemingly as "definitive" as (e.g.) physics…
1 year, 10 months ago
Measuring everything that matters (with Doug Hubbard)
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Can we measure everything that matters to us? When is measuring the correlates of a thing pretty much just as goo…
1 year, 10 months ago
What happens when you follow 100 self-help books to the letter? (with Kristen Meinzer)
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Why does it seem that many people read self-help books with no intention of actually doing what the books prescri…
1 year, 11 months ago