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What We Secretly Want (w/ Robin Hanson)

Uncertain Things

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The Power of Humor

Vanessa: You have to protect yourself against all possible rules that people can be coming up with. And who knows what new sets of rules they'll be judged against in five years? That's all you don't know. But that's also brings us to the point that that's the strength of humor. Because when we feel that dissonance of maybe over judging or almost unfairly reading things that are on the record, our ability to evoke laughter is completely independent of the morals that we're trying to project and everything to do with those tensions that we're feeling.

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