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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Elephant in the Brain
In randomized experiments, there's no relationship between more medicine and being less healthy. So the conspiracy theory would say that the businesses that sell you medicine don't want you to know that fact. And so they don't learn this. I've lived in the Washington area for several decades now reading the Washington Post regularly. Every week there was a special section on health and medicine. It never was mentioned in that section of the paper in all the 20 years I read that. Do you think there is some truth to this caricature, blue pill, red pill, where most people don't want to know the truth? Not many things about which people don't wanting to know certain kinds of truths.
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