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Brett Andersen: The Re-Evaluation of All Values

From the New World

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The Power of Evolutionary Mismatch

I think that understanding evolutionary mismatch is extremely important for understanding the modern world and what's going on with things like social media, but also our political situation as well. We're very good at demonizing the outgroup and construing all of ourselves as perfect angels. But in the context of trying to solve problems around existential threats, for example, whether it's nuclear war, the potential threat of AI,. And stuff like that, right? I mean, all that's just totally toxic.

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