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Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions

Effective Altruism: An Introduction – 80,000 Hours

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Are You Good at Reading Social Information?

People differ a lot in their ability to make this kind of prediction. Some people are incredible at it, where they can really read things on people's facesad be at how did you know that i'm feeling that way a or subtle emotions. Other people are just really not good at it, and they can't read even like emotions that would often be obvious to others. And so they're in na lot of variability individually. There's a huge amount of variability here, which is kind of interesting, cause you'd think evolution would push us pretty strongly to o being good ot this. But as someone his a terrible cook, i don't trust my intuition in cooking at all. I mean

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