#119 — Hidden Motives

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🗓️ 12 March 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Sam Harris speaks with Robin Hanson about our hidden motives in everyday life. They discuss selfishness, hypocrisy, norms and meta-norms, cheating, deception, self-deception, education, the evolutionary logic of conversation, social status, signaling and counter-signaling, common knowledge, AI, and many other topics.

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0:00.0	Today I am presenting the audio from the event I did in Denver with Rob Enhancin.
0:22.7	Robyn's professor of economics at George Mason University.
0:25.6	He's the author with Kevin Simler of a very interesting book titled The Elephant in the Brain,
0:31.6	Hidden Motives in Everyday Life.
0:33.6	I give more of his bio from the stage, but I really enjoyed this conversation with Robyn.
0:39.9	We spoke about all the related issues here of selfishness and hypocrisy and norms and norm
0:45.7	violations, cheating, deception, self-deception, the evolutionary logic of conversation, social
0:53.6	status, signaling and counter-signalling, common knowledge, and just many interesting topics
0:58.6	here.
0:59.6	I enjoyed the event.
1:00.6	Unfortunately, the audio is a little wonky.
1:03.1	We are completely at the mercy of whatever recording we get from these venues.
1:09.2	And there are a few moments where things cut out.
1:12.5	It's a little echoey.
1:13.5	It's not that bad.
1:14.5	Once you start listening, you will acclimate to it, but it was a good conversation.
1:19.0	So now I bring you Robyn Hansen.
1:26.5	Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Sam Harris.
1:48.8	Well, thank you all for coming out.
1:49.8	Really, it's amazing to see you all or see some fraction of you.
1:56.0	I'm going to jump right into this.
1:57.2	We have a very interesting conversation ahead of us because I have a great guest.
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