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What We Secretly Want (w/ Robin Hanson)

Uncertain Things

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The Elephant in the Brain by Daniel Roy

Daniel Roy is the author of a new book about evolutionary motives that guide human behavior. He says we have strong committed blind spots towards these motivations and are loath to acknowledge them. The structure of the book is 10 different areas in which there's a usual assumption about why we're doing things, then a bunch of puzzles that don't make sense for that point of view,. And then a better theory and how the better theory fits these puzzles.

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