The Evolutionary Psychology Of Love - Robin Dunbar - #520

Modern Wisdom

09/01/22

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96m

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Robin Dunbar is an anthropologist, evolutionary psychologist, head of the Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group at the University of Oxford and an author.

Love is something that people have been trying to describe for thousands of years. Beyond asking what love is, is the question of why humans feel something so strange in the first place. Why would evolution have exposed us to this extreme sensation with huge potential for catastrophe and pain?

Expect to learn how love is adaptive, why humans need to have more sex than almost all other animals to get pregnant, why ancestral men who hunted big animals were only doing it to get laid, how the length of your fingers can tell you how promiscuous you are, whether Robin thinks humans were ancestrally monogamous and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (01:01) Defining Love (07:59) Were Humans Always Monogamous? (13:12) Telling Dating Preferences by Finger Length (19:08) How Love is Adaptive (25:38) Love in Arranged Marriages (36:18) Female Primates During Maternity (48:00) The Show-off Hypothesis (52:17) What is Commitment? (1:06:08) The Use of Human Kissing (1:16:01) Optimal Rubbing Speed (1:24:01) Why We Love People After They Die (1:31:33) Men’s Vasopressin Reactors (1:35:49) Where to Find Robin

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Legacy Media Is Lying To You - Balaji Srinivasan - #519

August 29, 2022

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106m

Balaji Srinivasan is an entrepreneur and essayist, he was co-founder of Counsyl, former chief technology officer of Coinbase and former general partner at Andreessen Horowitz.

Our information diets are making us mentally fat. Whether it's fake news, mis or disinformation, state propaganda or conspiracy theories, the world is very difficult to navigate. Balaji also wants to start a new type of country, he has views on how to optimise your working day and he generates more new ideas than almost anyone. Today we get an insight into his thought process behind all of this.

Expect to learn why socialism always continues to arise across the world, how Balaji tracks all of the ideas he has in his head, why Singapore is a powerhouse of a new country, how immigration will deal with remote VR workers in India, why everyone should use a dashboard to track what's going on in their life, the key trick that the legacy media uses to manipulate you and much more...

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(00:00) Intro (00:17) Mental Information Management (11:43) How to Become More Discerning with Media (18:08) Men Are Losing Testosterone (19:43) The Death of Legacy Media (23:38) Maintaining a Healthy Information Diet (34:27) Balaji’s Social Media Habits (39:20) How does Balaji Predict the Future? (51:11) How will Immigration Deal with Remote Working? (1:00:50) Technology’s Impact on Conflict (1:09:24) Lessons from Living in Singapore (1:22:00) The Problem with American Politics (1:45:56) Where to Find Balaji

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Life's Mysteries, Explained By Physics - Sabine Hossenfelder - #521

September 3, 2022

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54m

Sabine Hossenfelder is a theoretical physicist, research fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies, quantum gravity researcher and an author.

There are a lot of big questions in the world, like does the past still exist? Do particles think? Was the universe fine tuned for us? Do we have free will? And are we living in a simulation? Given that we don't have answers yet, why not let a physicist have a crack at them?

Expect to learn why physicists who say they know how the universe started aren't telling the truth, whether we can compute a human brain, why no one gets any younger, if maths is the ultimate basis of reality, why there might be copies of all of us out there in the universe, how your entire life could be the imagined history of a brain floating in space and much more...

Timestamps:

(00:00) Intro (02:53) The Problem with the Simulation Hypothesis (11:15) How Physics Impacts Free Will (18:13) Misunderstanding the Universe’s Origins (27:09) Is There Something Better than Mathematics? (32:00) The Fine-Tuned Theory (37:45) Boltzmann Brains (45:10) Can We Compute Consciousness? (53:37) Where to Find Sabine

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