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Once Biden announced his decision not to run, we saw people debate the appropriateness of bestowing President Biden with lavish praise for his decision. One argument that seemed persuasive at first glance is one about incentives- we should praise people who act in the public

As Chris Best pointed out in the latest episode of Moral Mayhem, Silicon Valley still has a cultural special sauce, one that celebrates ambition, risk-taking and originality. A question we didn’t get a chance to ask Chris: Is there such a thing as too much risk-taking or desire

The new episode of Regan Arntz-Gray's series about Sam Harris' body of work is coming soon!  Tune in and discover the power of conversation! Make sure you join the series to get all the insights she has to offer! interintellect.com/salon/sam-harr…

On the latest Moral Mayhem, Martin argues that adding an option to receive corporal punishment rather than jail time in certain situations would be ethically superior to the status quo. But, as we discuss, the severity that would be required to make such a punishment effective

Are there more marriageable women than men? Alex Kaschuta rightly points out that as more women have entered the workforce and increasingly outperform men in educational qualifications the pool of men who would be most attractive to them on paper - men with equal or greater career

It seems like when people accuse others of being in "transactional" relationships, what they're really saying is that they're optimizing too hard or only on externally legible metrics. At base, most relationships are transactional in that both parties get something out of it,

There are few areas in which race is the best proxy for whatever it is you care about. Using race when you could use something else increases prediction error. It’s worth noting two exceptions. 1. ‘This person seems off to me’ exception: If there are scenarios in which you have

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Dating apps and job boards let us select from larger pools. The easiest traits to filter for (height, job title) often aren't the most important, but highly correlated, weak preferences on these leads to adverse selection. More on the latest episode of Moral Mayhem, out now!!

You can certainly argue that being willing to break the law to come to the US communicates desperation/need and is a good filter if we want our population to be risk taking etc, but I doubt that it correlates with nothing negative. To be clear, I don’t think most unauthorized

If we think of cultural hegemony as analogous to a lack of genetic diversity, then, as is a risk with asexual reproduction, we’re collectively more vulnerable to environmental change. Basically, if culture is a set of adaptive tools and everyone globally is using the same set, we

Interesting thread. Themes echo the concerns that underlie my opposition to world government (and why I even think we need to revert a great deal of power to the states). Centralization and uniformity are very risky.

As Robin Hanson says in the latest Moral Mayhem episode: "It seems like... oh shit! Civilization has a fatal flaw... but what do we do? Do we go back?" We discuss Robin's theories around cultural drift, potential solutions, and why people don't seem to be concerned about it.

I thought this convo went especially well. Still only 50 views on Youtube.

I've written before about why I think economic fertility incentives are most cost effective if they only kick in at the third baby. Since almost everyone has one baby and most people have two, if incentives only kick in at the third baby, a higher % of the babies triggering those

Love turns a finite series of repeated games — with a defect/defect equilibrium — into an infinite series of repeated games — allowing for a cooperate/cooperate equilibrium. Between close kin, biology does most of this work. For example, most parents accept significant personal

Most political movements in the West based on group identity have an underlying fairness claim. Bryan Caplan 's definition of feminism extends this to feminism - which he defines as the view that our society generally treats men more fairly than women. We note a couple of things

In the latest episode of Moral Mayhem , we were joined by Gregory Salmieri to discuss ethical egoism. We discuss the function of morality, the individual as the relevant unit of moral patienthood, free will, the modern pronatalist movement and more... open.spotify.com/episode/4DpLrm…