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"https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/11/could-you-be-in-one-of-these-8-psychological-traps/", "published_at": "2020-11-22T18:24:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-3b26-71de-bed9-41a0063a4022", "title": "Weird but potentially valuable new roles we could have in our society", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/11/weird-but-potentially-valuable-new-roles-we-could-have-in-our-society/", "published_at": "2020-11-19T01:47:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-3b26-71de-bed9-41a006d50b41", "title": "Things They Didn’t Say", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/11/things-they-didnt-say/", "published_at": "2020-11-17T06:28:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-3b26-71de-bed9-41a006dded5a", "title": "Many global challenges arise due to collective action problems or incentive misalignment", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/11/many-global-challenges-arise-due-to-collective-action-problems-or-incentive-misalignment/", "published_at": "2020-11-16T19:40:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-3b26-71de-bed9-41a006efb784", "title": "Ten things we each personally can do to help democracy:", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/11/ten-things-we-each-personally-can-do-to-help-democracy/", "published_at": "2020-11-03T07:15:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-3b26-71de-bed9-41a007637cf5", "title": "What is the deal with IQ?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/10/what-is-the-deal-with-iq/", "published_at": "2020-10-20T23:41:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-3b26-71de-bed9-41a0081fb62d", "title": "The Fourier transform of happiness", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/10/the-fourier-transform-of-happiness/", "published_at": "2020-10-17T16:55:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-3b26-71de-bed9-41a00899993a", "title": "The many forms of belief", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/10/the-many-forms-of-belief/", "published_at": "2020-10-11T20:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-3b26-71de-bed9-41a00933fbda", "title": "Ten Skills Our Civilization Needs", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/10/ten-skills-our-civilization-needs/", "published_at": "2020-10-10T06:25:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-3b26-71de-bed9-41a0099ec35e", "title": "How resetting your psychological baseline can make your life better", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/10/how-resetting-your-psychological-baseline-can-make-your-life-better/", "published_at": "2020-10-07T00:45:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-6837-7194-be1d-fb668bac40e5", "title": "Why Do Some People Have Better Intuition?", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/10/why-do-some-people-have-better-intuition/", "published_at": "2020-10-05T23:49:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-6837-7194-be1d-fb668bdaea38", "title": "Deepities and deepifuls", "url": "https://www.spencergreenberg.com/2020/09/deepities-and-deepifuls/", "published_at": "2020-09-18T23:02:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0d19f-6837-7194-be1d-fb668c7403c8", "title": "The Power of “Familiar Yet Different”", "url": 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2023

Seven of the greatest academic works of satire of all timeoriginal ↗
26 May 2023
Five metaphorical tools to help you climb your personal mountainsoriginal ↗
19 May 2023
Four types of “designers” for software start-upsoriginal ↗
17 May 2023
What would a robot value? An analogy for human values – part 4 of the Valuism sequenceoriginal ↗
7 May 2023
My rules for making great spreadsheets (in Google Sheets or Excel)original ↗
6 May 2023
Did That Treatment Actually Help You?original ↗
15 Apr 2023
13 metaphors to give the flavor of why sufficiently advanced A.I. could be extremely dangerousoriginal ↗
2 Apr 2023
Problems with meta-analysesoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2023
Should Effective Altruists be Valuists instead of utilitarians? – part 3 in the Valuism sequenceoriginal ↗
10 Mar 2023
You can’t buy back time once you’ve spent itoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2023
What to do when your values conflict? – part 2 in the Valuism sequenceoriginal ↗
24 Feb 2023
Doing what you value as a life philosophy – an introduction to Valuism – part 1 in the Valuism sequence – what are intrinsic values and why do they matter?original ↗
14 Feb 2023
How can you help friends or family members who are struggling with a mental health challenge? original ↗
8 Jan 2023
Personality traits as continuous spectrumsoriginal ↗
8 Jan 2023
Reflecting on your life principlesoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2023

2022

Demystifying p-valuesoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2022
A step-by-step process to get full text access to most scientific and academic articles and papersoriginal ↗
21 Dec 2022
Importance Hacking: a major (yet rarely-discussed) problem in scienceoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2022
Four forces that tend to promote or impede ethical behaviororiginal ↗
10 Dec 2022
Nine ways that text-generating AIs will probably change the world in the next ten yearsoriginal ↗
4 Dec 2022
Eight methods to make conversations with acquaintances more interestingoriginal ↗
3 Dec 2022
How can we look at the same dataset and come to wildly different conclusions?original ↗
30 Nov 2022
Life, death, and a squirreloriginal ↗
17 Nov 2022
Awkwardly Embracing Awkwardnessoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2022
Arguments For and Against Longtermismoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2022
Tensions between moral anti-realism and effective altruismoriginal ↗
15 Aug 2022
On Emotionally Reactive Traits: a hidden cause of drama and ruined relationshipsoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2022
Understand how other people think: a theory of worldviewsoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2022
Why do some people oppose Roe v. Wade?original ↗
27 Jun 2022
Understanding Relationship Conflicts: Clashing Traumaoriginal ↗
17 Apr 2022
Can you have causation without correlation? (Surprisingly, yes)original ↗
14 Mar 2022
Seven reasons why you could be defining a concept ineffectivelyoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2022
The enduring wisdom of a disabled man born into slavery nearly 2000 years agooriginal ↗
2 Mar 2022
Why I changed my mind about courageoriginal ↗
14 Feb 2022
Ten theories for how to achieve true happiness (and useful resources for you to try them out)original ↗
8 Feb 2022
Addressing some common misconceptions about rape and sexual assaultoriginal ↗
9 Jan 2022
Podcast transcription services comparisonoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2022
Wishing you a happy new year, in all its meaningsoriginal ↗
1 Jan 2022

2021

Human behavior makes more sense when you understand “Anchor Beliefs”original ↗
21 Nov 2021
Is every action secretly selfish?original ↗
9 Nov 2021
Replica Theoryoriginal ↗
27 Oct 2021
The ten most important components of self-compassionoriginal ↗
20 Oct 2021
How do we predict high levels of success?original ↗
12 Sept 2021
Important (present and future) real-world applications of academic philosophyoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2021
What Are All the Things That Humans Need?original ↗
28 Jul 2021
Three big reasons we struggle to find the truth original ↗
4 Jun 2021
Is Learning From Just One Data Point Possible?original ↗
8 May 2021
Victims and Perpetrators Of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault: Gender Differences and Rates Of Victimization and Perpetrationoriginal ↗
5 May 2021
Why is Confirmation Bias So Common?original ↗
5 May 2021
Mistakes Made by Minds and Machinesoriginal ↗
3 May 2021
Why “nature plus nurture” is sometimes the wrong way to thinkoriginal ↗
29 Apr 2021
Soldier Altruists vs. Scout Altruistsoriginal ↗
23 Apr 2021
It can be shockingly hard just to understand three variablesoriginal ↗
20 Apr 2021
Tricks for Getting Started on a Project When You’re Stuckoriginal ↗
19 Apr 2021
What’s helpful and what’s unhelpful about postmodernism, critical theory, and their current intellectual offshoots?original ↗
29 Mar 2021
Twelve Recursive Explanationsoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2021
Ten weird moral theoriesoriginal ↗
20 Mar 2021
What social policies are low-hanging fruit in the U.S.?original ↗
13 Mar 2021
Difficult truths that are part of being humanoriginal ↗
6 Mar 2021
Seven amazing things we take for granted most of the time, ordered from least to most weirdoriginal ↗
20 Feb 2021
Eight ways you can get more enjoyment from the same activityoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2021
Intersecting advice from highly successful peopleoriginal ↗
26 Jan 2021
What’s the link between depression and anxiety?original ↗
11 Jan 2021

2020

Is altruism rational?original ↗
28 Dec 2020
Philosophical questions that arise when we compare reality to our subjective experience of itoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2020
On How to Process Your Emotionsoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2020
The Reciprocation Problemoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2020
Seek the Root: how to handle requests more effectivelyoriginal ↗
28 Nov 2020
These epistemic methods really want you to trust themoriginal ↗
27 Nov 2020
Our Human Games: games are everywhere, and they matter more than most people thinkoriginal ↗
23 Nov 2020
Could You Be in One of These 8 Psychological Traps?original ↗
22 Nov 2020
Weird but potentially valuable new roles we could have in our societyoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2020
Things They Didn’t Sayoriginal ↗
17 Nov 2020
Many global challenges arise due to collective action problems or incentive misalignmentoriginal ↗
16 Nov 2020
Ten things we each personally can do to help democracy:original ↗
3 Nov 2020
What is the deal with IQ?original ↗
20 Oct 2020
The Fourier transform of happinessoriginal ↗
17 Oct 2020
The many forms of belieforiginal ↗
11 Oct 2020
Ten Skills Our Civilization Needsoriginal ↗
10 Oct 2020
How resetting your psychological baseline can make your life betteroriginal ↗
7 Oct 2020
Why Do Some People Have Better Intuition?original ↗
5 Oct 2020
Deepities and deepifulsoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2020
The Power of “Familiar Yet Different”original ↗
18 Sept 2020
Responsibility Mindsetoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2020
Principles of Prioritizationoriginal ↗
16 Sept 2020
The three big strategies I see for combating climate changeoriginal ↗
14 Sept 2020
An Evolutionary Perspective on Human Traitsoriginal ↗
13 Sept 2020
Robust Goodoriginal ↗
11 Sept 2020
Five Powerful Learning Techniques Most People Have Never Triedoriginal ↗
6 Sept 2020
Ten pros and cons of starting a startuporiginal ↗
3 Sept 2020
Hypothesis about America: people are coming to realize society is messed uporiginal ↗
1 Sept 2020
Society and civilization: possible future pathsoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2020
Everyone Misspeaks, So Watch Out For Cherry Pickingoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2020
Thinkers Who Say the World Is Insaneoriginal ↗
26 Aug 2020
Low-Hanging Fruit Policies That Don’t Get Implementedoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2020
11 Types of Thinkers and Intellectuals (a little framework)original ↗
23 Aug 2020
10 Structures of Problemsoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2020
Ideology Eats Itself When Truth Becomes Stigmatizedoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2020
Idea-Inducing Questionsoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2020
An unsettling conversation with GPT-3original ↗
29 Jul 2020
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