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MeaningofLife.tv videos — May 2021
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May 27, 2021 —
Nikita Petrov & David Poleski
Nikita Petrov talks to the visionary artist David Poleski about drugs, travel, childhood, identity, language, speaking in tongues, and freedom from the ego.
May 25, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Rob Wiblin
- Defining effective altruism
- Rob explains the meaning of ‘80,000 Hours’
- Should young people dedicate their careers to fighting climate change?
- The Apocalypse Aversion Project
- How cognitive biases fuel tribalism
- Bob: We need a psychological revolution
- Are external threats the best way to bring people together?
- The balance between surveillance and public safety
- Bob: Let’s retire the word ‘apologist’
- Making rationality cool
- Rob challenges Bob to find flaws in “The Moral Animal”
May 11, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Josh Summers
- Josh tries to help Bob retool his meditation practice
- Identifying the purpose of your practice
- What to do when your mind wanders
- Tuning your mind
- The Four Rs
- Can mindfulness help us bolster our courage?
- Learning to tolerate blowback from your tribe
- Suffering and the psychology of tribalism
- Developing a non-zero-sum relationship with your own mind
- So you say you’ve been called a neofascist…
May 4, 2021 —
Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
- The value of defying your tribe
- Egocentric bias and attribution error
- The thin line between between courage and acting like an asshole
- Why do we punish people for unintentional transgressions?
- To understand all is to forgive all …
- … but forgiveness won’t get you retweets
- Are people’s politics as irrational as they seem?
- William James’ preternatural insight into human psychology
- Should the Philip Roth biography have been pulled?
- Reliving the worst day of your life
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