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What We Secretly Want (w/ Robin Hanson)

Uncertain Things

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What if the Main Reason You Go to School Is to Show Off?

People are inclined to be generous about their own motives and if they're associates. And so they look for positive spin reason why they might be doing things. Our most basic strategy here is to give less generous assumptions about the basic motive about why you do something. That's an example of a more realistic, more selfish, less pretty motive.

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