**17m** What makes for a good life? Can you be mistaken about having a good life? **13m** Is the double crux process actually that effective? **10m** Why did the Open Philanthropy Project decide this was a very valuable project to fund? **6m0s** Is this the same method as the double crux process that was developed at the Center for Applied Rationality? **3m50s** How are you working on the problem of expert disagreement? **1m30s** So what projects are you working on at the moment? **If you want to work on any of the problems discussed in this episode, find out if our coaching can help you:** We’ve helped dozens of people compare between their options, get introductions, and jobs important for the the long-run future. Get free, one-on-one career advice to help you improve judgement and decision-making * How to start out pursuing a career in which you enhance human judgement and foresight. * Whether big institutions will actually pick up new tools for improving decision-making if they are developed. * Whether the incentives in the intelligence community actually support sound thinking. * Whether she would recommend an unconventional career like her own. * Why she started a PhD in economics but then stopped. * Why saying you don’t believe X often won’t convince people you don’t. * Whether it’s a good idea to run a podcast, and how she grew her audience. * Whether people should write more books. * What makes her a fan of Twitter (while I think it’s dystopian). * Why she doubts people are more rational than 200 years ago. * Why she once planned to become an urban designer. * Her research on how people can have productive intellectual disagreements. In our conversation we ended up speaking about a wide range of topics, including: Julia has been host of the Rationally Speaking podcast since 2010, co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality in 2012, and is currently working for the Open Philanthropy Project on an investigation of expert disagreements. This interview complements a new detailed review of whether and how to follow Julia’s career path.Īpply for personalised coaching, see what questions are asked when, and read extra resources to learn more. We brought her in to talk about her ideas. Julia Galef - a well-known writer and researcher focused on improving human judgment, especially about high stakes questions - believes that if we could again develop new techniques to predict the future, resolve disagreements and make sound decisions together, it could dramatically improve the world across the board. The scientific revolution in the 16th century was one of the biggest societal shifts in human history, driven by the discovery of new and better methods of figuring out who was right and who was wrong.
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