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Aesthetics and Polyamory (with Sam Rosen)
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How can we improve art museums? Does aesthetics need something equivalent to the effective altruism movement? Wha…
5 years, 6 months ago
Meditation and Enlightenment (with Jeremy Stevenson)
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What's a good definition of meditation that cuts through all the dogma and differing methodology? What are the te…
5 years, 6 months ago
Forgiveness and E-Prime (with Josh Castle)
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What is the goal of this podcast? How does a person become a polymath? What are the conceptual difficulties surro…
5 years, 6 months ago
Lines of Retreat and Incomplete Maps (with Anna Salamon)
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What does it mean to leave lines of retreat in social contexts? How can we make sense of the current state of the…
5 years, 6 months ago
THINKERS Workshop (with Spencer Greenberg)
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Why is it important to learn about cognitive biases? What are the various modes of nuanced thinking? What kind of…
5 years, 6 months ago
Death and Story-Telling (with A.J. Jacobs)
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Are there more meaningful and ethical ways of honoring the dead than our traditional rituals? Why is it useful to…
5 years, 6 months ago
Life Experiments and Philosophical Thinking (with Arden Koehler)
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What is 80,000 Hours? What sorts of people should become entrepreneurs? How can you run cheap experiments on your…
5 years, 6 months ago
Negotiation and Psychological Immune Systems (with Julie Kheyfets)
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How can we move beyond zero-sum, adversarial negotiations? What are some tools we can use to overcome physical an…
5 years, 6 months ago
Education and Charity (with Uri Bram)
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Are universities a cult? Do charitable interventions like de-worming work? How much should we trust the conclusio…
5 years, 6 months ago