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What We Secretly Want (w/ Robin Hanson)

Uncertain Things

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The Better to Deceive Others

In our society, traditionally on Valentine's, if you have a relationship special with someone, you might give them chocolates to show them how much you care about them. The idea is that medicine grows out of that. Medicine is how you show the people who are sick or injured that you want to take care of them and that you're not going to love them. So the ideas that our ancestors would sometimes get injured or sick was an especially vulnerable time for them.

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