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Communicating what you really mean (with Misha Glouberman)
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Why is most communication advice so fluffy? How can we actually communicate better? Why do we sometimes fail to s…
3 years, 10 months ago
Taking pleasure in being wrong (with Buck Shlegeris)
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How hard is it to arrive at true beliefs about the world? How can you find enjoyment in being wrong? When present…
3 years, 10 months ago
A philosophical theory of jerks (with Eric Schwitzgebel)
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To what extent does thinking about ethics actually cause a person to behave more ethically? Do ethicists behave m…
3 years, 10 months ago
How meanings get words and social sciences get broken (with Literal Banana)
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How do meanings get words? What is ethnomethodology? Some attempts at defining words are successful; but why do s…
3 years, 10 months ago
Dealing with our "groupstruckness" and "boundedness" (with Katja Grace)
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What does it mean to be "groupstruck"? How does groupstruck-ness differ from the bystander effect, normalcy bias,…
3 years, 11 months ago
Math as a perspective on life (with Marcus du Sautoy)
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How can we have System-2-type reflection but with System-1-type speed? How can math be considered to be a "fast" …
3 years, 11 months ago
A former Al-Qaeda recruiter speaks (with Jesse Morton)
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NOTE: When we published this episode a few days ago, we were unaware that Jesse had passed away back in December…
3 years, 11 months ago
Cognitive biases and animal welfare (with Leah Edgerton)
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What are some of the tensions between short-term and long-term thinking about how best to reduce animal suffering…
3 years, 11 months ago
Is it bad to coerce yourself to do unpleasant things? (with Matt Goldenberg)
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What is non-self-coercion? What's so bad about coercing ourselves to do things we don't want to do? What is "the …
3 years, 11 months ago
Our 100th episode! (with Uri Bram and Spencer Greenberg)
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Is it possible to be both agreeable and skeptical in conversations? How can you give feedback and challenge peopl…
4 years ago