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Sep 21, 2021 — Robert Wright & Josh Summers
Remembering Michael Brooks
The existential stakes of enlightenment
Overcoming the affective dimension of cognitive bias
Bringing broader awareness to the concept of cognitive bias
Cognitive bias and the roots of war
The folly of feedback loops
Quelling our primitive retributive impulses
Taking a mulligan in your meditation practice
Focusing on the hindrances
Can you fail at meditation?
Sep 15, 2021 — David Ottlinger & Cathy Young
A plea to the weary to return to the Woke Wars
Who is James Lindsay?
Lindsay’s book, Cynical Theories
Lindsay’s other critiques of wokeness
The religion of wokeness, the religion of anti-wokeness
Lindsay jumps on the Trump train (starts shoveling coal)
The anti-semitism thing
David: In a way, Lindsay is on the side of BLM
Sep 14, 2021 — Robert Wright & Oliver Burkeman
Oliver’s new book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver outlines “compatibilism,” the idea that free will and determinism can coexist
Bob: Everyone should be a free will agnostic
The occasionally dramatic consequences of arguments against free will
Would determinism require us to reform our approach to criminal justice?
A (possible) quantum hack for free will vs. determinism
Bob thinks compatibilism is bullshit …
… but Oliver tries to persuade him there’s something to it
Oliver: No position on free will and determinism is free of contradiction
Sep 7, 2021 — Robert Wright & John Horgan
John’s recent bout of fever-induced hallucinations
Does math actually help you understand QM?
What experiments in QM have and have not verified
John: All interpretations of QM are bad
What do we want from science?
“An operating system for reality”
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