

Four: Spencer Greenberg on the scientific approach to solving difficult everyday questions
12 snips Apr 12, 2021
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Introduction
00:00 • 2min
How to Reason Through Difficult Questions
02:16 • 5min
How to Get More Happy Thoughts Everyday?
06:56 • 2min
Is There a Value for Its Own Sake?
08:38 • 2min
Are You a Conservative or a Liberal?
10:22 • 2min
What Are the Differences Between Universal and None Universal Values?
12:33 • 2min
What Do Inte Rial Values Really Mean?
14:57 • 2min
How to Find Your Own Intrinsic Values
17:00 • 2min
Do You Think That Money Is Inherently Valuable?
18:47 • 2min
Learning for Its Own Sake
20:20 • 3min
The Human Brain Doesn't Clearly Differ Between Value and Integrity
23:03 • 6min
I'm Going on Vacation, I'll Value My Own Wealtare Mo Ham It
28:34 • 3min
The Best World Is Just Hook Aryone Up to Happiness Machine in Riting
31:24 • 3min
Human Brains Have Multiple Integrative Values
33:55 • 2min
Are You Over Confident?
35:56 • 2min
Are You Over Confident?
37:31 • 3min
The Martial Arts One Lines Up Pretty Well
40:13 • 2min
Are You Confident?
42:21 • 2min
The Five Trades That Were Able to Discover
44:07 • 3min
Is There a Myth About Spinach?
46:38 • 2min
How Much Should You Change Your Belief Based on Evidence?
48:25 • 4min
Do You Work With Odds or Opponents?
52:04 • 3min
Is It Subject of Judgment?
54:43 • 5min
What Is the Base Factor?
59:20 • 3min
When Should We Trust Common Sense?
01:02:20 • 3min
Are You Good at Reading Social Information?
01:04:54 • 4min
The Fallacy of Aggregation
01:08:44 • 2min
Is There a Replica of Power Posing?
01:10:27 • 3min
Is It a Small Effect?
01:13:49 • 2min
Do You Believe That Possibility Can Affect Mood?
01:15:43 • 3min
How to Optimize a Reference Class?
01:18:47 • 3min
How Long Will It Take You to Finish a Project?
01:21:54 • 2min
Do You Have a Planning Fallacy?
01:23:58 • 2min
Predicting the Future With Models and Theories
01:25:38 • 2min
Using Multiple Models to Predict a Thing
01:27:48 • 2min
Is There Evidence That Chocolate Reduces or Improves Cardiovascular Health?
01:29:25 • 2min
Is the Base Factor a Hundred?
01:31:18 • 2min
Qualitative Frameworks Can Be Used to Destimate Things
01:33:36 • 3min
Is There a Difference Between a Number and Nothing?
01:36:26 • 3min
How Many Presidents Have Colluded With Foreign Powers?
01:39:00 • 2min
Is He a Russa Colluder?
01:40:40 • 2min
The Probability of China and the United States Going to War in the 20th Century
01:42:11 • 2min
What's the Bas Factor of War?
01:43:58 • 2min
Are They Going to Give Up Their Nuclear Weapons?
01:45:46 • 2min
The Right Model Isn't Quite the Right Model
01:47:40 • 3min
Is There a Base Factor in Sugar?
01:50:50 • 2min
Is the Diet Change the Cause of the Arthritis Going Away?
01:53:13 • 2min
How to Estimate the Odds of a Trump Being Reelected?
01:55:03 • 2min
Can You Beat the Production Market?
01:57:15 • 2min
I Think the Effect Size of the Study Goes Up, and the Probability of a Real Result Goes Down.
01:58:51 • 2min
Liquid Prediction Markets
02:00:34 • 2min
Is This Really a Fraud?
02:02:10 • 2min
Faith Healer
02:03:47 • 2min
Is It Really That Unforgivable?
02:05:47 • 3min
Do You Feel Better Now?
02:08:31 • 3min
Is This Really a Dodgy Company?
02:11:26 • 2min
Is There a Smoke Detector Alarm?
02:13:06 • 2min
The Importance of Rethinking Your Expectations
02:15:20 • 2min