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What We Secretly Want (w/ Robin Hanson)

Uncertain Things

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Are We All Getting What We Really Want?

We want a society where we feel good about our position in it and that we hopefully have a leg up over everybody else. Unfortunately, people who are not honest with themselves about what they want can gain by advocating something they don't really want. And so we can all end up doing the thing that none of us want as we're all gaining individually for pretending to want different things.

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