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Lines of Retreat and Incomplete Maps (with Anna Salamon)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Elf in the Brain by Robin Hanson

I think we all want to believe that there's a responsible adult adult in the room and like someone's looking after things right. It seems to me hard to look at what's happening now and have any sense that someone is in control agreed but yet people don't seem to be responding to that maybe they do but not not. I sort of hope we can figure out how to respond to that by like popping out of the collective delusion and just sort of looking around with common sense and common decency or whatever.

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