#292 – Robin Hanson: Alien Civilizations, UFOs, and the Future of Humanity
Lex Fridman Podcast
The Elephant in the Room
The elephant in the brain is an important but unacknowledged feature of how our mind works. Humans, compared to most other animals, have norms about what we should or shouldn't be doing. And this allows us to manage larger groups with our morals and norms on what we should do. You are instead, better understood as the press secretary of your brain - you don't make decisions, you justify them to an audience.
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