14 Shocking Lessons About Human Nature - Gurwinder Bhogal - #602

Modern Wisdom

03/16/23

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110m

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Gurwinder Bhogal is a programmer and a writer.

Gurwinder is one of my favourite Twitter follows. He’s written yet another megathread exploring human nature, cognitive biases, mental models, status games, crowd behaviour and social media. It's fantastic, and today we go through some of my favourites.

Expect to learn why asking questions is the most selfish thing you can do, why people create hatred in an attempt to feel love, the real danger of censorship, why it's more important to avoid being wrong than try to be right, what postjournalism is and why you need to understand it, how to win every debate even if you lose, why you should never take an internet insult personally and much more...

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (00:57) Social Media is Making People Less Sincere (08:18) Instead of Trying to Be Right, Be Less Wrong (13:18) People are More Interested in Criticising than Helping (17:15) Never Take Information at Face Value (20:29) Becoming Trapped in a Purity Spiral (30:47) It Isn’t Coordination, It’s Cowardice (45:53) Media is Now ‘Post-Journalism’ (52:51) The Majority of Evil People Had Good Intentions (59:34) Why It’s Easier to Debate Geniuses than Idiots (1:09:16) Don’t Take Social Media Attacks Seriously (1:25:28) Are People Really Judging Us? (1:32:30) The Configuration of Dominant Ideologies (1:47:50) Where to Find Gurwinder

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Evolution's Secrets To Understanding Relationships - Dr Andrew Thomas - #601

March 13, 2023

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95m

Dr Andrew Thomas is a senior lecturer of psychology at Swansea University whose research focuses on sex differences and relationship preferences from an evolutionary perspective.

Evolution explains a large portion of why we like the things we like. Who we're attracted to, why we fall into and out of love, how our mental state affects our mating strategies. Therefore, if you are a human who ever intends on being in a relationship, this might be useful.

Expect to learn the 5 evolutionary theories which explain much of human mating, whether ChatGPT can correctly predict what traits men and women like most in each other, how many previous sexual partners people say they want their current partner to have had, how open men & women in the West are to polyamorous relationships, how sexual arousal can ruin a faithful relationship and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (01:20) Evolutionary Mismatch (10:18) Evolving Towards Making Small Errors Instead of Big Ones (17:33) Are Men as Picky as Women? (21:55) Is Promiscuity Heritable? (27:32) Humans Engage in Multiple Types of Sexual Strategies (36:49) The Different Levels of Sexual Harassment (46:55) Is Sexlessness in Young Men Caused by Poor Social Skills? (52:56) Attitudes in the West to Having Multiple Sexual Partners (1:04:21) How Many Previous Sexual Partners is Too Much? (1:14:52) What ChatGPT Gets Wrong About Mate Preferences (1:34:31) Where to Find Dr Thomas

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How To Make Life's Biggest Decisions - Abby Davisson - #603

March 18, 2023

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61m

Abby Davisson is an author, social innovation leader and career development expert whose research focuses on decision making in money management and romance.

There are some big decisions we all need to make. What job to take, what city to live in, whether to get married or divorced or have kids. Having a prescriptive formula for this might seem impossible, but Abby helped run the most popular course at Stanford on exactly this topic, and today we get to find out what she's discovered.

Expect to learn what the most common biggest single mistake that Abby has discovered in her research, how to use logic in romantic decisions without killing the romance, how to speak to your parents about care as they get older, the biggest mistakes that all people make when it comes to major decisions, if you should get a prenup agreement and much more...

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Timestamps:

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