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Robin Hanson - The Long View

Dwarkesh Podcast

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The Elephant in the Brain - I Don't Meditate

The claim is you're more aware of the next thought that enters your mind. And because at awareness, you can choose, you can realize that your own motivations are false to some extent. Do you buy that chain? Well, so we wrote this book, The Elephant in the Brain that takes 10 areas of life and talks about how the motors are different. If you showed me a book on meditation that went area by area life and showed me specifically how they had figured out that the motors were different I would be impressed.

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