165 – DREAM: Dunbar Rules Everything Around Me

Dunbar’s Number is both the cause of and downfall of Human Civilization

Low-Status degrades your health

Your Book Review: The Dawn Of Everything

Mentioned in the follow-ups section:

Lithium suspect?

AIs threaten proof-of-work

The Mind Killer podcast

0:00:34 Feedback
0:11:58 Main Topic pt1 Status in Dunbar Spheres
0:46:37 Main Topic pt2 The Dawn of Everything
1:15:08 LW posts
1:30:04 Thank the Patron


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Rationality: From AI to Zombies, The Podcast, and the other podcast

LessWrong posts Discussed in this Episode:

Effortless Technique

Zen and the Art of Rationality

Next Episode’s Sequence Posts:

The Amazing Virgin Pregnancy

Asch’s Conformity Experiment

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One Response to 165 – DREAM: Dunbar Rules Everything Around Me

  1. Slightly Annoyed Crypto Noob says:

    Note that “proof of work”, as used by the conspirators, annoyingly does not mean “cryptographic proof that you spent lots of computation to make this think”, but in fact is in reference to undergrad busywork.

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