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Podcast: Modern Wisdom
Episode: #332 - Julia Galef - Learn To Improve Your Decision Making
Description: Julia Galef is the co-founder of the Center for Applied Rationality, a podcaster and an author.Boris Johnson’s former chief adviser Dominic Cummings said that tens of thousands of Covid deaths could have been prevented if the Government had read Julia's book. Why is it that he swears by Julia's rationalist manifesto?Expect to learn what most people get wrong about confidence, the difference between a solider and scout mindset, why attitude is more important than knowledge for effective judgement, how to avoid being self-deceptive, what the rationality movement has got most wrong and mu...