You might be the best interviewer I've ever seen, Dwarkesh :) At least at asking the kind of questions I would like to hear the answers to. Not being afraid of going deep right away is great.
He is correct about the dose of advice. I knew a man whose mother had five boys and she had a gold fish bowl of condoms by their back door which she replenished often. Every time one of her sons walked past her in the kitchen to go out she said "no means no and wear a condom"...every time. None of her sons ever had an STD, unwanted pregnancy, or rape accusation. This woman was a genius. When I heard this story it was told with a great deal of humor and love by her son.
0:19:11 labor law! many employers don't care where you are, but they do care which country's labor law you're subject to. The Spanish (you can replace Spain with any other country) government requires anyone who hires people in Spain to do reporting, witholdings and to never fire anyone without a "just cause". The effect this has on salaries left as exercise to the reader
Also, there's only video footage from Bryan after the beginning (as opposed to your other episodes where you switch between video of yourself and the guest).
I had always thought that economics was a field in which you had to get a doctorate in order to be taken seriously, but then what do I know? I do know that the highest paid bachelor’s degree is marine transportation, either engineering or navigation, otherwise known colloquially as the merchant marine. There is one federal service academy, King’s Point, and probably six state academies run by California, Texas, Michigan, Maine, Massachusetts and New York. Freshly minted 22 year old third officers or third assistant engineers can start at over $140,000 shipping out maybe 8 months per year with about 4 months vacation. But unlicensed crew members with 3 years’ experience can also sit for the Coast Guard licensing exams typically after attending a cram course at a commercial crammer such as Crawford’s in Seattle.
Interesting overall, but the portrait of mental illness painted here was very odd. Schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder cannot be explained as having different goals than the average person.
Listening to Bryan is so thought-provoking (even more so when in disagreement), but his views on perception disorders (schizophrenia and the like) in particular are just... very superficial at best. Requiring years of direct experience of a person in order to believe that same person isn't just faking it or finding an excuse for himself or having different values (49:06) is out of touch with reality. I'm all for being skeptical of soft sciences results and prevailing theories of the moment (see replication crisis and therapy approaches explosion in psychotherapy), but this is more like taking it to the extreme and going against the simplest explanation: some people have hallucinations.
I think his explanation is much more simple tbh. Not taking his side (even though I have a personal anecdote that fits his theory) but it does seem far more simple of an explanation.
You might be the best interviewer I've ever seen, Dwarkesh :) At least at asking the kind of questions I would like to hear the answers to. Not being afraid of going deep right away is great.
Thanks Oriol, that means a lot!
Tak!
He is correct about the dose of advice. I knew a man whose mother had five boys and she had a gold fish bowl of condoms by their back door which she replenished often. Every time one of her sons walked past her in the kitchen to go out she said "no means no and wear a condom"...every time. None of her sons ever had an STD, unwanted pregnancy, or rape accusation. This woman was a genius. When I heard this story it was told with a great deal of humor and love by her son.
That's inconceivable to me, using my mother as a reference; not nearly as liberal with that stuff.
Bro your podcast is straight flames 🔥
Thanks man!
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0:19:11 labor law! many employers don't care where you are, but they do care which country's labor law you're subject to. The Spanish (you can replace Spain with any other country) government requires anyone who hires people in Spain to do reporting, witholdings and to never fire anyone without a "just cause". The effect this has on salaries left as exercise to the reader
The intro is only coming from the left audio stream. Rest of the episode is fine.
Also, there's only video footage from Bryan after the beginning (as opposed to your other episodes where you switch between video of yourself and the guest).
Interesting, thanks for letting me know! I'll trry tp figure out why.
@@anabh4569 Yeah, there was a bug with the zoom recording
I had always thought that economics was a field in which you had to get a doctorate in order to be taken seriously, but then what do I know? I do know that the highest paid bachelor’s degree is marine transportation, either engineering or navigation, otherwise known colloquially as the merchant marine. There is one federal service academy, King’s Point, and probably six state academies run by California, Texas, Michigan, Maine, Massachusetts and New York. Freshly minted 22 year old third officers or third assistant engineers can start at over $140,000 shipping out maybe 8 months per year with about 4 months vacation. But unlicensed crew members with 3 years’ experience can also sit for the Coast Guard licensing exams typically after attending a cram course at a commercial crammer such as Crawford’s in Seattle.
Excellent podcast
thanks buddy!
there's a lot of sampling bias in which foregin remote workers end up coming to the US, and you can't control human capital adequately
Interesting overall, but the portrait of mental illness painted here was very odd. Schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder cannot be explained as having different goals than the average person.
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Listening to Bryan is so thought-provoking (even more so when in disagreement), but his views on perception disorders (schizophrenia and the like) in particular are just... very superficial at best. Requiring years of direct experience of a person in order to believe that same person isn't just faking it or finding an excuse for himself or having different values (49:06) is out of touch with reality. I'm all for being skeptical of soft sciences results and prevailing theories of the moment (see replication crisis and therapy approaches explosion in psychotherapy), but this is more like taking it to the extreme and going against the simplest explanation: some people have hallucinations.
I think his explanation is much more simple tbh. Not taking his side (even though I have a personal anecdote that fits his theory) but it does seem far more simple of an explanation.
Impulse control comes from practice not simply preaching.
finally someone say the samething
Good podcast, but please slow down when you're asking your questions.