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Life Experiments and Philosophical Thinking (with Arden Koehler)

Oct 13, 2020

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

How to Do Good in Your Career

3min

How to Balance 80,000 Hours With Personal Happiness

3min

The Importance of Personality in Entrepreneurship

2min

The Conflicts in Entrepreneurship

3min

The Conflict Between Planning and Execution

2min

The Insumptinence of Life

2min

How to Get Into a Career

2min

The Power of Cheap Experiments

2min

10.

The Effects of Herbs and Supplements on My Body

2min

11.

The Importance of Carbohydrates in Nutrition

2min

12.

The Effects of Sugar on Weight Loss

2min

13.

The Non-Posebo Effect of Lavender

4min

14.

The Placebo Effect and the Placebo Effect

2min

15.

The Effects of Belief on Pain

3min

16.

The Importance of Interpretation in Meditation

4min

17.

How to Make Your Arm Go Pins and Needles

2min

18.

The Importance of Imagining

2min

19.

The Power of Visual Imagery in Dreams

2min

20.

The Importance of Imagining Images in Your Mind

2min

21.

The Different Mindsets of a Philosopher

2min

22.

The Art of Argumentation

2min

23.

The Importance of Differentiating in Philosophy

2min

24.

The Importance of Argumentation

2min

25.

How Much Should We Update Our View on a Complex Argument?

3min

26.

How to Deal With a False Conclusion Argument

2min

27.

The Importance of Being Persuaded

2min

28.

Pattern Recognition for Arguments

2min

29.

The Importance of Thinking Like a Philosopher

4min

30.

The Importance of Models in Life

3min

What is 80,000 Hours? What sorts of people should become entrepreneurs? How can you run cheap experiments on yourself? What are some beneficial modes of philosophical thinking?

Arden Koehler is a researcher and writer at 80,000 Hours, a nonprofit whose mission is to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems, and an active member of the effective altruism community. Arden has a PhD in philosophy from New York University, with a specialisation in ethics and attitudes toward time, and a B.A. in philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. You can check out her work at 80,000 Hours, and you can email her at arden@80000hours.org.

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