What Are the Most Socially Valuable Delusions?

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Comedy is so segregated from the rest of your aesthetic if it is, yesto, that one is harder. So i've said, like you shakespeare, i love accept the comedy, which just isn't very funny to me. I was sent this question earlier this morning, and i quote, what are the most socially valuable delusions, or shared erroneous beliefs? That is a good one. Probably a better answer is the delusion that money will buy happiness. There is an enormous amount of progress that is caused by people desperately going and trying to get rich. And i think the actual psychological evidence is the money won't actually to all, not much happiness, but the things they produce

"No single paper is that good", says Bryan Caplan. To really understand a topic, you need to read the entire literature in the field. And to do the kind of scholarship Bryan's work requires, you need to cover multiple fields. Only that way can you assemble a wide variety of evidence into useful knowledge.

But few scholars ever even try to reach the enlightened interdisciplinary plane. So how does he do it?

Tyler explores Bryan's approach, including how to avoid the autodidact's curse, why his favorite philosopher happens to be a former classmate, what Tolstoy has that science fiction lacks, the idea trap, most useful wrong beliefs, effective altruism, Larry David, what most economics papers miss about the return to education, and more.

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Recorded April 17th, 2018 Other ways to connect

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