Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

Dealing with our "groupstruckness" and "boundedness" (with Katja Grace)


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What does it mean to be "groupstruck"? How does groupstruck-ness differ from the bystander effect, normalcy bias, and other related cognitive biases? How do we break people out of being groupstruck? What does it mean to be a "bounded" person? How can we build up better decision-making heuristics? What sorts of decisions do people usually not quantify but should (and vice versa)? How can we make rational relationship decisions without coming across as "calculating" or cold? How does anthropic reasoning affect our hypotheses about the nature of the universe and life within it (i.e., the Fermi paradox, the simulation hypothesis, etc.)?

Katja Grace is a blogger at worldspiritsockpuppet.com and researcher at aiimpacts.org. Follow her on Twitter at @KatjaGrace.

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  • Spencer Greenberg — Host / Director
  • Josh Castle — Producer
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  • Uri Bram — Factotum
  • Janaisa Baril — Transcriptionist

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