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Robin Hanson

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The Elephant in the Brain

We are all doing a lot of things in our lives, we tell ourselves a story about why we're doing it. And for the most part, social scientists have just accepted our usual explanations. I realized at some point that you could hypothesize that we're just wrong about our motives. The elephant in the brain book is the book saying this is generally true of a lot of thing in our life.

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