Episode 33: Suffix

10/24/21 • 52 min

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This will be the last of our regularly scheduled episode. As our lives ramp up and we take on different responsibilities we have decided to take a break from our schedule. We may come back from time to time, so if you'll have us in your feed, we'd love to stay!
This week we mostly talk about ways we could use more energy after Matt Yglesias convinced us that we should
You can also find us on discord or reddit
Big list of coffee bets - now also on Melange app.
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Winners take all - a commentary on billionaire philanthropy by Anand Giridharadas
Chris' fancy coffee machine - The Delonghi Dinamica S vs X-men
Technology connections and Malcom Gladwell both love dishwashers!
80,000 hours rates climate change as "This is a pressing problem to work on, but you may be able to have an even bigger impact by working on something else."
Plasma cutters cut steel beems using electricity, contrary to what some say.
Brian becomes a world record holder! He's not any more, but he was!!!!!

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Episode 32: A replication machine makes the rich richer

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This week we discuss what's gone wrong with science and the replication crisis. We also discuss how inequality may improve life globally riffing off Scott Sumner.
You can also find us on discord or reddit
Big list of coffee bets - now also on Melange app.
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A plug for effective altruism - the statistical life you can save is still a life!
Dominic Cummins has thoughts on how to make the government actually control the government again.
Max the axe sure loved firing public servants.
The data colada blog broke the story of the dishonesty in Dan Ariely's work on dishonesty.
Psychology's "priming" is probably not real
Diablo 2 resurrected has finally been released!

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Episode 34: We're pretty rusty

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Chris wants to get into micro-grids. If you know anything about them please tell me! Our main article is about jobs that pay in status instead of money.
You can also find us on discord or reddit
Big list of coffee bets
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The year ahead - by the RBA. Chris got the gist, maybe you will too?
Context is that which is scarce. Also apparently editors? I feel like that sentence could be much snappier?
Minds almost meeting - a podcast of two highly intelligent and unorthodox thinkers recorded at the bottom of the ocean via two cans on a string