Minds Almost Meeting

Utopia (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Dec 29, 2022
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Is There a Ugly Idea of Utopia?
02:20 • 2min
3
We're Not the Sort of Creatures Who Can Be Happy With Anything
03:50 • 3min
4
Is It Possible to Know What You Want?
06:25 • 3min
5
The Unappealing Nature of Utopian Worlds
09:12 • 2min
6
We Don't Know What We Want
11:42 • 2min
7
Utopian Environments Aren't Realistic, Right?
13:12 • 2min
8
The Struggle Is What We Want
14:42 • 2min
9
The Problem With This World Is That It's Missing the Struggle
16:23 • 2min
10
I Don't Want to Be Happy but I Want to Achieve It
18:06 • 2min
11
The Problem Isn't That You're Being Meteorized in a Christian Theology
19:50 • 1min
12
The Sacred Is an Attitude and It's Okay for God to Construct Your World
21:14 • 2min
13
Is Sacrifice a Crucial Part of the Good?
23:17 • 2min
14
Uh, It's Death That Gives Meaning
25:12 • 2min
15
Are We Imploded by Our Easy Wins?
26:53 • 2min
16
We Earned Through Suffering Good Results
28:32 • 2min
17
Why Do We Need to Add Sacrifice to Our World?
30:13 • 2min
18
The Anti-Republic Repugnant Conclusion
32:33 • 2min
19
Are We Living in Utopian Worlds?
34:28 • 3min
20
Is There a Utopian Life?
37:13 • 2min
21
Planning Versus Adaptation
39:28 • 3min
22
Is There a Struggle to Motivate You?
42:21 • 2min
23
Are You Planning for Long-Term Success?
44:16 • 3min
24
What Are the Side Effects of Short-Term Thinking?
46:55 • 2min
25
Futurism or Long-Termism?
49:17 • 2min
26
Long Termism and Physical Conservatism
51:21 • 3min
27
The Conservative Argument Is a Kind of Romance
53:54 • 3min