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Talent
“I read your talent book, and it was actually very, very useful to me because it taught me other ways, other things to look for.”
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Paul Bloom
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Against Empathy
“I read Against Empathy, and it changed my life.” I don’t want it to sway me, but it’s hard for it not to, and so yes, that’s our weakness.”
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01 / belief
I think certain sex differences are largely hardwired, and so, parents shouldn’t blame themselves if they find their son is walking around pretending to fire guns at people, and their daughter’s doing more maternal play.
“I think certain sex differences are largely hardwired, and so, parents shouldn’t blame themselves if they find their son is walking around pretending to fire guns at people, and their daughter’s doing more maternal play.”
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02 / belief
I can say, I think, some reasonably intelligent, maybe surprising things about social movements and how people behave in groups.
“I can say, I think, some reasonably intelligent, maybe surprising things about social movements and how people behave in groups.”
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03 / belief
I think we tend to be good parents because the sort of person who becomes a psychologist is probably more sensitive to other people’s feelings, well-educated, and tends to be affluent enough to provide kids with good stuff.
“I think we tend to be good parents because the sort of person who becomes a psychologist is probably more sensitive to other people’s feelings, well-educated, and tends to be affluent enough to provide kids with good stuff.”
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04 / belief
In some work with Laurie Santos, who had a thriving monkey lab, we found that Capuchins did the same thing.
“In some work with Laurie Santos, who had a thriving monkey lab, we found that Capuchins did the same thing.”
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05 / belief
I think part of Canadian politics or parliament encourages more vibrant debate and discussion, often at a pretty high level that you don’t see in the States.
“I think part of Canadian politics or parliament encourages more vibrant debate and discussion, often at a pretty high level that you don’t see in the States.”
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06 / belief
In our society, I think the life of a young baby is probably pretty difficult if your needs are not immediately satisfied.
“In our society, I think the life of a young baby is probably pretty difficult if your needs are not immediately satisfied.”
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07 / belief
Oh, yes, hardly rated at all these days, I think maybe just because of Jordan Peterson, who has been promoting him.
“Oh, yes, hardly rated at all these days, I think maybe just because of Jordan Peterson, who has been promoting him.”
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08 / belief
I think we should, in some way, try to reason to make the world a better place even if it involves strangling some cats.
“I think we should, in some way, try to reason to make the world a better place even if it involves strangling some cats.”
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09 / belief
Often, when people complain about the replication crisis, they throw away all of psychology, but personality psychology has proven surprisingly robust, and I think there’s a lot of sense in the idea.
“Often, when people complain about the replication crisis, they throw away all of psychology, but personality psychology has proven surprisingly robust, and I think there’s a lot of sense in the idea.”
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10 / belief
I think I’ve made a lot of mistakes and moral mistakes in my life by being too caught up in empathy.
“I think I’ve made a lot of mistakes and moral mistakes in my life by being too caught up in empathy.”
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11 / belief
I’ll give another argument, which is — again, trying not to be disgust-based — which is that I think that there’s a range of human relationships that are tremendously valuable, and sometimes they’re better off without sex.
“I’ll give another argument, which is — again, trying not to be disgust-based — which is that I think that there’s a range of human relationships that are tremendously valuable, and sometimes they’re better off without sex.”
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12 / belief
I could not fashion myself as a tiger dad, but I think we should take it more seriously.
“I could not fashion myself as a tiger dad, but I think we should take it more seriously.”
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13 / belief
I think what we have yet to see is whether they could have a long, sustained conversation, holding in memory over multiple sessions.
“I think what we have yet to see is whether they could have a long, sustained conversation, holding in memory over multiple sessions.”
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14 / belief
If somebody said, there’s a research we’re going to do which will save a child’s life, but it will involve killing a million dogs, I think people might balk at it, but if it was killing two dogs, people wouldn’t.
“If somebody said, there’s a research we’re going to do which will save a child’s life, but it will involve killing a million dogs, I think people might balk at it, but if it was killing two dogs, people wouldn’t.”
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15 / belief
There’s not much of a narrative to that, but I agree that when you get it more complicated in life, it could serve all sorts of other functions.
“There’s not much of a narrative to that, but I agree that when you get it more complicated in life, it could serve all sorts of other functions.”
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16 / belief
I think, in other ways — I think that that’s actually a very emerging ability, the ability to tell the good from the bad.
“I think, in other ways — I think that that’s actually a very emerging ability, the ability to tell the good from the bad.”
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17 / belief
In less wealthy countries, the kid co-sleeps and sleeps in the same room. I think that’s better off for the kid.
“In less wealthy countries, the kid co-sleeps and sleeps in the same room. I think that’s better off for the kid.”
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18 / belief
The skeptics will say — I think Bryan Caplan says — you get better at taking tests, you get better at a scholastic way of thinking.
“The skeptics will say — I think Bryan Caplan says — you get better at taking tests, you get better at a scholastic way of thinking.”
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19 / belief
If you include, by “therapy,” somebody just regularly talking to an LLM about their problems and getting some advice and everything, I think that human interaction within not too many years will be the minority of interactions.
“If you include, by “therapy,” somebody just regularly talking to an LLM about their problems and getting some advice and everything, I think that human interaction within not too many years will be the minority of interactions.”
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20 / belief
You could imagine an LLM program for that, but I think when we encountered the LLM, we’d find it repellent.
“You could imagine an LLM program for that, but I think when we encountered the LLM, we’d find it repellent.”
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