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#79 – A.J. Jacobs on radical honesty, following the whole Bible, and reframing global problems as puzzles

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Climate Change Puzzles

I think it is more motivating to call it a puzzle. Because then, you know, you're reframing it as something that's not hopeless and might even be an interesting challenge. But at least I find it personally, anecdotally, much more motivating. So if we were currently someone who wasn't thinking of climate change as a puzzle sat down and trapped this problem,. how would that differ to someone who was thinking of this purely as This is just a puzzle I'm representing my country in the international puzzle completion?

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