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#13 - Geoffrey Miller (Part 2 of 2)
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72 minutes
Released:
Dec 10, 2017
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Description
Geoffrey Miller is an evolutionary psychology professor at the University of New Mexico in the USA, and is best known for his books The Mating Mind (2001), Mating Intelligence (2008), Spent (2009), and Mate (2015). He has a B.A. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. from Stanford University, and has also worked at NYU Stern Business School, UCLA, and University College London. He has over 120 academic publications addressing sexual selection, mate choice, signaling theory, fitness indicators, consumer behavior, marketing, intelligence, creativity, language, art, music, humor, emotions, personality, psychopathology, and behavior genetics. He has given 192 talks in 16 countries. His research has been featured in Nature, Science, The New York Times, The Washington Post, New Scientist, and The Economist, on NPR and BBC radio, and in documentaries on CNN, PBS, Discovery Channel, National Geographic Channel, and BBC. He has consulted for a variety of Fortune 500 companies, governments, NGOs, advertising agencies, market research companies, and social media companies. He is also active in the Effective Altruism, ancestral health, academic free speech, and polyamory movements. His current priority is leveraging evolutionary psychology insights to reduce the existential risks from Artificial General Intelligence. Geoffrey's personal website: www.primalpoly.com Geoffrey on Twitter: @primalpoly Timestamps: Capitalism, genetics, intelligence, etc. (00:00) Polyamory with a purpose? (00:13) Groups, clans, missions, cults, and the politics of optimal lifestyle design; blockchain polyamory? (00:26) Public opinion toward free speech; hypothesizing about why some people reject free speech. (00:24) How long will Trump last? Betting and prediction markets. (00:46) Geoffrey's advice on how to live an intellectual life. (51:00)
Released:
Dec 10, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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