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#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
How Are You Being Self-Critical?
I can't tell you what I'm deceiving myself about, but the more practical strategy that's quite feasible is to ask about what are typical things that most people disease themselves about. And how are you being self? Why is the dictator manipulating you inside your head to be self-critical? There's norms. Why do you want to stand out in this way? Most intellectuals are relatively risk-averse. They are in some local and actual tradition and they are adding to that. But for the purpose of the larger intellectual project of understanding the world better, people should be less eager to just add a little bit to some tradition," he says.
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