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How can we save the world? (with Toby Ord)
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What is "the precipice"? Which kinds of risks (natural or technological) pose the greatest threats to humanity sp…
4 years, 9 months ago
Risk-Driven Development and Decentralization (with Satvik Beri)
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What is risk-driven development? How should we weigh advice, best practices, and common sense in a domain? What m…
4 years, 9 months ago
Statistics Intuitions and Social Science Reproducibility (with Stuart Buck)
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How should math be taught in primary and secondary schools? How much is science denialism caused by statistics il…
4 years, 9 months ago
Genomics and Health Outcomes (with Noor Siddiqui)
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Why has there been such an explosion of progress in genomics recently? What's the right way to think about how ge…
4 years, 9 months ago
Rationality and Cognitive Science (with Anna Riedl)
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What is the Great Rationality Debate? What are axiomatic rationality and ecological rationality? How irrational a…
4 years, 9 months ago
Self-Improvement and Behavior Change (with James Norris)
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How can you live your best life? What's a good definition of "wisdom"? What are some possible taxonomies of life …
4 years, 9 months ago
Everyday Statistics and Climate Change Strategies (with Cassandra Xia)
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What are "shed" and "cake" projects? And how can you avoid "shed" projects? What is the "jobs to be done" framewo…
4 years, 9 months ago
Conscious Processes and Intelligence (with Richard Nisbett)
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What sorts of things do the conscious and unconscious parts of our minds do? How we can make people more intellig…
4 years, 9 months ago
Educational Restructuring and Investing (with Matt Greenfield)
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How can we restructure schools around student needs? What sorts of skills do people actually need in the 21st cen…
4 years, 10 months ago
Chinese Culture and Love Addiction (with Ava King)
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How is Chinese culture different from American culture? For what reasons do Chinese people get plastic surgery, a…
4 years, 10 months ago