In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Robin Hanson about our hidden motives in everyday life. They discuss selfishness, hypocrisy, norms and meta-norms, cheating, deception, self-deception, education, the evolutionary logic of conversation, social status, signaling and counter-signaling, common knowledge, AI, and many other topics.
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#259 — The Reckoning to Come
#258 — The Fall of Afghanistan
#257 — The State of the World
Ask Me Anything #17
#256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas
#255 — The Future of Intelligence
#254 — The Mating Strategies of Earthlings
#253 — Corporate Courage
#252 — Are We Alone in the Universe?
#251 — Corporate Cowardice
#250 — Broken Conversations
#249 — Distance & Arrival
#248 — Order & Freedom
Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
#247 — Constructing Minds
#246 — Police Training & Police Misconduct
#245 — Can We Talk About Scary Ideas?
#244 — Food, Climate, and Pandemic Risk
#243 — A Few Points of Confusion
#242 — Psychedelics and the Self
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