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How much preference falsification is occurring in society? What's the difference between conflict theory and mistake theory? Why is postmodernism useful to understand?
Michael Vassar was the President of the Singularity Institute from 2009 to 2012. Subsequently, he has worked in business consulting, especially in association with cutting edge science, although these days he primarily invests his own assets. You can contact him at michael.vassar@gmail.com.
Further reading
- My IRB Nightmare — the Slate Star Codex codex account of trying to do a study in a hospital that we discuss in the episode
- GPT-3 — the A.I. language model discussed in the episode that was released by OpenAI
- Preference falsification
- Conflict theory vs. Mistake theory and people's views on society
- The "postmodern" analysis / article that Michael brought up
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