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Intellectuals (Agnes Callard & Robin Hanson)

Minds Almost Meeting

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Are You Also Going to Be Understanding in That Case?

In order for us to achieve these collective goals together we accept that we all have pretty strong selfish interests and of a wide range of sorts. So we're looking to create institutions including norms such that they not only when enforced produce the better outcome but that are actually feasible to enforce. For example if you say present an idea and you give both positive and negative aspects of it we might find that more believable than if you only give positive aspects. We can easily point out negatives to you that you probably should have been able to see which is a way of enforcing the norm that hey acknowledge the negatives as well as the positives so that's an example of a norm that is in fact enforceable right I

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