Dwarkesh Podcast / episode intelligence
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31 published records
01 / belief
“I think the problem is that it does discredit a lot of the reasonable points because the US just doesn’t focus on the really big issues.”
02 / commitment
“I will just say that there are a number of books that are written in this terrible modern style of lawyerly reasoning, where you basically have a thesis that you just try to defend in every possible way.”
03 / belief
“Another area that I talk about and which I think really does tip the scales, although again, you really need to go through the book because I do try to work through a lot of different margins… I think the one that really does settle it against feminism in today's age is precisely the level of false feminist accusations about unfairness.”
04 / uncertainty
“What is feminism anyway, because if we don't know what that is, then it's very hard to talk about whether it's becoming more true over time.”
05 / commitment
“We have a plan for how we're going to do this, and we're going to stick to it, and we are ready to lose a whole lot of our soldiers in order to do this, and then we are going to go and find people that we are going to very gradually transition power to.”
06 / belief
“Now, it's not like we think society mistreats billionaires. They're pretty fine, but we think their status should be even higher.”
07 / belief
“First of all, I would say maybe. That is one of the best arguments against keyhole solutions.”
08 / belief
“If you have an effective altruism point of view, however, where it's not just feeling a lot of caring emotions, but being very committed to thinking clearly about the best way to get good results, then I'll say those people are more heroic people in my view.”
09 / belief
“I think Tyler cited some of this research in his new book on talent that being too agreeable or being too aggressive harms women more than it harms men.”
10 / belief
“I would say that there's this whole literature on credibility saying, “No, what you really want is to be honest and in a very credible way such that when you say I'm going to do something in 20 years, people believe you.”
11 / uncertainty
“I don't remember. I don't know if you asked him directly, but that was his claim.”
12 / belief
“There were some main differences that I realized between the kind of public speaking I was used to doing and what I actually did there.”
13 / belief
““I believe that in America, no student should ever be denied full access to the maximum opportunities of education merely because they were born in a family that was too poor to afford it.”
14 / belief
“” If elites didn't go to college and instead they went and did elite apprenticeships at top corporations instead, I think you'd still wind up getting a very similar elite subculture.”
15 / uncertainty
“I don’t know, but maybe yes. More generally, one of the common arguments that libertarians make about India and its elites is, “Oh, all of India's elites go study in Oxford or something, and they learn about the regulations the West is adopting that make no sense for a country with $2,000 GDP per capita.”
16 / belief
“” I mean, when people talk about this stuff, what really strikes me is that I felt like I learned more from just going and looking at the time series as far back as it goes than from every person that pontificated about what's really going on.”
17 / belief
“I think he said his reason was, “Oh, my mother doesn't want me to fight anymore.”
18 / belief
“” We're not going to turn the camera, but I think that listeners will believe that it is not on fire.”
19 / belief
“The other thing is just that I think there's too much cultural separation between the feminist movement as we know it and places like China and India, where I just don't see the attitude of being really angry about exaggerated or false complaints about unfair treatment of women in the United States is going to do anything for infanticide in India.”
20 / belief
“My view is that it was this British-based anti-slavery movement that was really key, which then spread to the colonies.”
21 / belief
“Traffic, parking, quality, the character of the neighborhood, pollution, and on and on, they make every possible complaint. So I think the main reason anything gets built is that there are developers who probably do not really sincerely believe that they're heroes, but just come and say, “Hey, well, we can make our money building stuff.”
22 / evaluation
“If all that you knew was you're going to be a man or woman, I would say, “Well, gee, if I'm a woman, then people will sympathize with my suffering, which is almost definitely coming because that's the human condition.”
23 / evaluation
“For people working at workplaces with dress codes, men are much more likely to be dinged on dress code violations than women because for men, there's a definite thing men are supposed to do.”
24 / commitment
“If that's a male trait, then we need to keep that trait because that is vital to really any field where there are right and wrong answers.”
25 / recommendation
“I think I would just say that we don't have any really good way of counting it, and might be useful to just come up with a new word to describe this kind of thing.”
26 / prediction
“If you could change your gender just with a wish, costlessly, perfectly, I think a very large majority of people would still want to stay with whatever gender they have because it's part of their identity.”
27 / evaluation
“All of these things combined make women's lives worse on average than men's lives. It's not because society mistreats them, but in some sense, there's still unfairness geared toward women.”
28 / recommendation
“” well yeah, I would have ladies’ night in a bar because that actually works, and it's good business!”
29 / evaluation
“I think business history is less historically contingent, but we actually do have a lot of evidence that the quality of entrepreneurship and management varies a lot from country to country, which I think does actually mean that for the really big businesses.”
30 / prediction
“Although, yes, I do think that keyhole solutions would probably not work multi-generationally, so to go and say this is a keyhole solution where you're not a citizen, your kids are not citizens, and their kids after them are not citizens, that's one that I think would be hard to maintain.”
31 / evaluation
“The main thing I would say about feminism causing unhappiness in the adherents is that it probably doesn't matter most for most self-identified feminists because most people just are not that intellectual and they don't think about their ideas very often.”