Robin Hanson on Signaling and Self-Deception (Live at Mason Econ)
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The Elephant in the Brain
In many areas of life, perhaps even most, there's a thing we say that we're trying to do. And then what we're really trying to do is something else that's more selfish and it is showing off. So signaling isn't just wasteful resources. What we really want to do is set up a world that caters to the elephant in our brain so to speak.
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