A mente humana

“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.

“Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University and a research associate at the Future...

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Waking Up Podcast #119 — Hidden Motives | Sam Harris

In this episode of the Waking Up podcast, Sam Harris speaks with Robin…

“Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our brains, therefore, are designed not just to hunt and gather, but also to help us get ahead socially, often via deception and self-deception. But while we may be self-interested schemers, we benefit by pretending otherwise. The less we know about our own ugly motives, the better - and thus we don't like to talk or even think about the extent of our selfishness. This is "the elephant in the brain." Such an intr...

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The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life

Human beings are primates, and primates are political animals. Our…