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What is psychosomatic illness? (with Suzanne O'Sullivan)
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Note: Please note that in this episode, Spencer and Dr. O'Sullivan discuss a controversial and complex medical to…
5 months ago
What causes mass shootings? (with Ragy Girgis)
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What do we miss when we treat public shootings as the whole story of mass murder? If public events are a small sl…
5 months, 1 week ago
Contempt-free public discourse (with Robert Rosenkranz)
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What makes a forum truly open-minded rather than performative? When does listening change minds instead of just h…
5 months, 2 weeks ago
Beyond the assumption that humans are rational (with Barry Schwartz)
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What does rationality mean when life won’t fit a spreadsheet? If models demand one common scale, what happens to …
5 months, 3 weeks ago
Will AI superintelligence kill us all? (with Nate Soares)
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Are the existential risks posed by superhuman AI fundamentally different from prior technological threats such as…
6 months ago
Do facts have an expiration date? (with Samuel Arbesman)
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What does it mean to treat facts as drafts rather than monuments? If truth is something we approach, how do we ac…
6 months, 1 week ago
From prisoner to escaping inner prisons (with Shaka Senghor)
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What changes when we treat violence as a human problem rather than a demographic story? Are fear, anger, and sham…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
A new paradigm for psychology research (with Slime Mold Time Mold)
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What changes when psychology stops naming traits and starts naming parts - can “entities and rules” turn fuzzy la…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Beyond saving lives: happiness and doing good (with Michael Plant)
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Are we trying to maximize moment-to-moment happiness or life satisfaction? Can self-reports really guide policy a…
7 months ago
Darwinian Demons: Climate Change and the AI Arms Race (with Kristian Rönn)
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Are existential risks from AI fundamentally different from those posed by previous technologies such as nuclear w…
7 months, 1 week ago