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#40 - Empathy and Policy
Why empathy leads to bad policy, and what to do about it.
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#39 - The Motte & Bailey
The dynamics of Motte & Bailey arguments and how it impacts the broader political scene.
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#38 - Intelligence and Overfit
The other side of the double edged sword of increased intelligence
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#37 - Pattern Recognition & Intelligence
Why identifying patterns is key to intelligence, and where the machines are in their race with humans.
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#36 - Weighting Principles
What do you do when principles conflict?
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#35 - Applied Postmodernism
What happens when postmodernism infects a culture? Nothing good!
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#34 - What is Postmodernism?
Understanding the reason the world seems to have gone mad.
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