106 – Talking to Strangers (with COVID-19)

We open up with some pre-episode chatter that I left in, then talk for a bit about Coronavirus before moving into the scheduled topic of Malcom Gladwell’s book Talking to Strangers! UPDATE: Given the situation in Italy, we’re upping our concern. Please increase the emotional volume of the Coronavirus section by about 1.5 levels.       SSC Coronavirus Seeing The Smoke Last Week Tonight on Coronavirus SMBC Steven mentioned in the pre-episode stuff Hey look, we have a discord! What could possibly go wrong? Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast… and the other podcast LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode: Update Yourself Incrementally One Argument Against An Army Next Episode’s Sequence Posts: Hindsight Bias Hindsight Devalues Science Big thanks to David for our intro music! Check out his music and VFX here! We’d like to thank creators of our new outro music from the Sumerki Project! Check out their stuff here!