Minds Almost Meeting

Wanting to be Wanted (Robin Hanson & Agnes Callard)

Dec 1, 2022

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Romance Is Playful, Right?

02:45

Is Your Erotic Relationship to Me Wanted?

02:12

What Do We Want Someone to Want Us For?

01:54

Introduction

3min

What Do We Want Someone to Want Us For?

2min

Is Your Erotic Relationship to Me Wanted?

2min

You Don't Want to Be Wanted Just for Your Body or for Your Money

3min

Is It a Pretendative Relationship?

3min

Are We in Control of Our Choices?

3min

Is There a Want to Be Wanted?

3min

The Shaping of the Hands Symbolizes the Knowledge of the Other Person

2min

I Want You to Want Me and I Want to Want You

4min

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Is There a Single Ritual That We've All Converged On?

3min

11.

Language Isn't the Only Way

5min

12.

Is Sex a Social Construction?

2min

13.

I Need to Know Your Thinking of Me

2min

14.

Is There Such a Thing as Cheating?

3min

15.

You Don't Have to Have Lunch With Our Team, Right?

2min

16.

Relationships Aren't Just About Parenting

2min

17.

Romantic Relationships - Are You a Romantic Couple?

2min

18.

You Don't Sacrifice Everything for Love

2min

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Transgender Is Not About Sexual Rights, Right?

2min

20.

The Romantic Revolution in the Last Thousand Years

3min

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Are Handshakes So Important?

2min

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The Importance of the Erotic

2min

23.

Sex Is a Ritual but It's a Funny Ritual

2min

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The Best Artists Don't Do It Like the Rest

2min

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Eroticism Is the Origin of All It Is Like a Place

2min

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Romance Is Playful, Right?

3min

View the transcript for this episode here: https://mindsalmostmeeting.com/episodes/wanting-to-be-wanted

Imagine two smart curious friendly and basically truth-seeking people, but from very different intellectual traditions. Traditions with different tools, priorities, and ground rules. What would they discuss? Would they talk past each other? Make any progress? Would anyone want to hear them? Economist Robin Hanson and philosopher Agnes Callard decided to find out.

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