Rationally Speaking Podcast

Intellectual honesty, cryptocurrency, & more (Vitalik Buterin)

Mar 4, 2021

01:16:40

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What's the Cluelessness Objection to Altruism?

02:08

The Importance of Public Goods

01:42

Is the Biqoin Community More Concave?

02:26

Introduction

2min

Prediction Markets - What Is the Mystery?

2min

Prediction Markets Are Just Really Bad at Getting the Right Answer

2min

Cryptocurrency Markets Don't Bet Predicted, Right?

2min

Crypto Markets - Is There a Legal Constraint?

2min

The Probability of the Prediction Markets Tilting in Trump's Favor

3min

Is There a Difference Between Metaculous and Cryptocurrency Predictions?

3min

The Efficient Market Hypothesis

2min

Buying Cryptocurrency Is Like Buying Google Shares in 1998

2min

10.

Is It a Mixed Bag Rent?

3min

11.

The Concave Versus Convex Disposition

3min

12.

Convex or Concave?

3min

13.

Convex Versus Concave Distinctions

3min

14.

Is the Biqoin Community More Concave?

2min

15.

Cryptocurrency - Are You a Rationalist?

2min

16.

How Does Intellectual Honesty Tie Into Higher Vision?

2min

17.

Are There Any Other Downsides Like Bhat?

3min

18.

Is There a Difference Between Short Term and One-Term?

2min

19.

What Really Matters Is Social Confidence

2min

20.

How to Get a 100 % Confident Weader

2min

21.

Being Well Calebrated Does Not Mean Being Uncertain About Everything

2min

22.

The Bioina Blocksize War

4min

23.

The Effect of Altruism

2min

24.

What's the Cluelessness Objection to Altruism?

2min

25.

Effective Altruism

5min

26.

The Importance of Public Goods

2min

27.

Is There a Worry About Facebook Creating Another Facebook?

3min

28.

The Most Effective Ways to Improve the World

2min

29.

What Do You Think About Life Extension?

2min

30.

Is It Caused by Reflective Contrarionism?

5min

31.

Do You Worry at All About the Over Population?

2min

32.

The End of Rationally Speaking

42sec

Julia and guest Vitalik Buterin (creator of the open-source blockchain platform Ethereum) explore a wide range of topics, including: Vitalik's intellectually honest approach to leadership, why prediction markets appear to be biased in favor of Trump, whether it was rational to invest in Bitcoin ten years ago, Vitalik's defense of life extension research against its critics, and more.

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