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Communities of belief vs. communities of chemistry (with Tyler Alterman)
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Do people need more community in their lives? What makes for a good community? Can you really belong to a communi…
1 year, 6 months ago
Everyone — including you! — should host more events (with Nick Gray)
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Why should people host more events than they do right now? Under what conditions shouldn't a person host more eve…
1 year, 6 months ago
What do we know for sure about human psychology? (with Simine Vazire)
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How much progress has psychology made on the things that matter most to us? What are some psychological findings …
1 year, 7 months ago
Pattern-breaking ideas, and startups that change the world (with Mike Maples)
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What mistakes do investors make when trying to predict which startups will succeed? Which matters more: a startup…
1 year, 7 months ago
Decision-making and play-testing (with Dan Epstein)
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What sorts of decisions are we making without even realizing we're making them? Are people aware of their own val…
1 year, 7 months ago
The path to utopia (with Nick Bostrom)
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Why do there seem to be more dystopias than utopias in our collective imagination? Why is it easier to find agree…
1 year, 7 months ago
Physical limits and the long-term future (with Anders Sandberg)
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How much energy is needed for GDP growth? Would our civilization have developed at the same rate without fossil f…
1 year, 8 months ago
Becoming a goat to avoid existential dread (with Thomas Thwaites)
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How hard is it to construct a toaster from scratch? Do we in modern times individually have more knowledge than i…
1 year, 8 months ago
AI apocalypticism vs. AI optimism (with Adam Russell)
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What is "apocaloptimism"? Is there a middle ground between apocalypticism and optimism? What are the various camp…
1 year, 8 months ago
Should we trust papers published in top social science journals? (with Daniel Lakens)
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How much should we trust social science papers in top journals? How do we know a paper is trustworthy? Do large d…
1 year, 8 months ago