Geoffrey Miller is an American evolutionary psychologist, author, and a professor of psychology at the University of New Mexico. He is known for his research on sexual selection in human evolution.

For reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_Miller_%28psychologist%29

Steve and Geoffrey discuss:

0:00 Geoffrey Miller's background, childhood, and how he became interested in psychology
14:44 How evolutionary psychology is perceived and where the field is going
38:23 The value of higher education: sobering facts about retention
49:00 Dating, pickup artists, and relationships
1:11:27 Polyamory
1:24:56 FTX, poly, and effective altruism
1:34:31 AI alignment

Music used with permission from Blade Runner Blues Livestream improvisation by State Azure.

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Steve Hsu is Professor of Theoretical Physics and of Computational Mathematics, Science, and Engineering at Michigan State University. Previously, he was Senior Vice President for Research and Innovation at MSU and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Science at the University of Oregon. Hsu is a startup founder (SafeWeb, Genomic Prediction, Othram) and advisor to venture capital and other investment firms. He was educated at Caltech and Berkeley, was a Harvard Junior Fellow, and has held faculty positions at Yale, the University of Oregon, and MSU.

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