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Currents 011: Robin Hanson on RightTalkism

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Talk Is Cheap, Right?

The point is to make them all say the right thing. As wenow, the folk wisdom version of that is, talk is cheap, right? In many private or familiar contexts, talk isn't cheap because we have these ways of checking on said and then pushing them to be consistent with their words and actions. And frankly, if you're a game theoring, theoring mother fucker corporate executive, hey, why not? Talk is cheap. If you get a bunch of benefit for a gesture, course, you're going to do it. Unfortunately. Well, now, in some of our private lives, you know, talk is a prelude to other things. So often

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