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When is suffering good? (with Paul Bloom)
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When (if ever) can suffering be good? Is there an optimal ratio of pleasure to pain? What is motivational plurali…
4 years, 5 months ago
What causes progress? And how can we stop it from slowing? (with Jason Crawford)
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What is progress? How do we (and should we) measure progress? What are the most important questions to ask in pro…
4 years, 5 months ago
Clearer paths and sharper ideas (with Lynette Bye)
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What are "forward-chaining" and "backward-chaining", and how do they connect with theory of change? What sorts of…
4 years, 5 months ago
How to measure impact, and why we may have all been doing it wrong (with Michael Plant)
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Researchers in the Effective Altruism movement often view their work through a utilitarian lens, so why haven't t…
4 years, 5 months ago
Major and minor scales of consciousness (with Andrés Gomez Emilsson)
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Should pleasure and pain be measured on logarithmic scales? How might such a scale affect utilitarian calculation…
4 years, 6 months ago
The art of being a creative person (with Georgia Shreve)
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What is positive psychology? What is the PERMA model? From a creativity standpoint, is there a connection between…
4 years, 6 months ago
An interview with an A.I. (with GPT-3 and Jeremy Nixon)
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What is machine learning? What are neural networks? How can humans interpret the meaning or functionality of the …
4 years, 6 months ago
Beyond cognitive biases: improving judgment by reducing noise (with Daniel Kahneman)
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How can we apply the theory of measurement accuracy to human judgments? How can cognitive biases affect both the …
4 years, 6 months ago
How to use your career to have a large impact (with Ben Todd)
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What is 80,000 Hours, and why is it so important? Does doing the most good in the world require being completely …
4 years, 7 months ago
Why does psychotherapy work (when it works at all)? (with Scott Miller)
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How can we make psychotherapy more effective? How much confidence should psychotherapists have in the efficacy of…
4 years, 7 months ago