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01 / belief
“I could well be wrong about this, but overall, I think probably we’re doing it too much in terms of what’s good for young people.”
02 / belief
“My argument is that the virtual life, the phone-based life is blocking that, so it’s not like they’re going to be able to grow up without that stuff. I think your argument is that AI will play the role of whatever the Aztecs did.”
03 / belief
“Total honor system, no enforcement, no cameras, no punishment,” I think shoplifting will go way, way up.”
04 / belief
“You may be right. I think I’m right that we’re going into a dip. It’s gigantic in terms of mental health impact, suicide rates, self-harm, hospitalizations, missed potential.”
05 / belief
“I should have a much better answer for you, but I think just reading novels from non‑Western cultures, and I would consider 19th century British aristocracy to be sort of a foreign culture now, just can give you an idea of cultures other than our own.”
06 / belief
“There’s a big, big line between saying, “Brown or Yale should step in and tell people what they can’t — .” In general I think no, in general the idea — .”
07 / belief
“Given that we find the same problem in cancer research and biomedical research — in almost every field where it’s been looked at — I think that the replication crisis is very real.”
08 / belief
“The president is the high priest of the American civil religion — I think that’s what Robert Bellah called it.”
09 / belief
“I find this really disgusting. This is I think one of the reasons I’m so upset by what’s going on on campus, is that the certain group of activists decides that somebody’s going to come speak on campus, fine, if you want to stand up and protest outside and hold up signs, that’s fine.”
10 / belief
“The only caveat that I would put which I would say if they don’t do this soon, then they would be overrated, is the behavioral economics work is an example of this wonderful dictum from Robert Zajonc, the famous social psychologist, which is that cognitive psychology is social psychology with all the interesting variables set to zero.”