“Good” medical trials are placebo-controlled, but when might it be immoral to even perform such an experiment?

Video: http://youtu.be/cpVxiGxs_yE

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2018/10/03/154.-The-Ethics-of-Placebo-Controlled-Trials.html

Iain M. Banks’s “Culture” is a techno-utopia of hedonism, a concept much more philosophically complex than sex, drugs, and rock n roll.

Video: http://youtu.be/LD7wdKeMhus

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2018/09/19/153.-'The-Culture'-and-Hedonism.html

Prediction markets: put your money where your mouth is. (Just don’t bet against the superforecasters.)

Video: http://youtu.be/FVW0rqxX0CE

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2018/09/05/152.-Prediction-Markets-and-Superforecasting.html

Systems (e.g. checklists, plans, and laws) imbue us with positively superhuman capabilities, both for good and ill.

Video: http://youtu.be/Q_wxmZzXGAc

Show Notes: https://thunkshow.com/2018/08/22/151.-Systems,-Law,-Rules-and-Standards.html